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European Union Will Enact Comprehensive Regulations on AIEU officials announced a compromise over a regulation on artificial intelligence in the works since 2021, making the trading bloc first in the world to comprehensively regulate the nascent technology. Europe understands "the importance of its role as global standard setter,” said Thierry Breton.

Yossi Appleboum, CEO of Sepio Systems in Israel, discusses the international support for Israel in the Israel-Hamas war and what his employees are doing to support the war effort, how the war is affecting Sepio Systems' performance and how generative AI can be "not a tool but a member of your team."

Microsoft and OpenAI Have Intertwined Their Futures, Sparking UK CMA ConcernThe British antitrust authority is conducting a preliminary review of Microsoft's interest in OpenAI. The agency will examine whether the companies' partnership means Microsoft has material influence or whether it in effect controls more than half of OpenAI voting rights.

Confidential AI integrates zero trust and confidential computing to guard data and models during inferencing, training, learning, and fine-tuning.

UK privacy regulator, the information commissioner, says illegal use of AI will be punished with fines

Program Addresses Secondary Use of Patient Data by Third Parties for AI InitiativesThe Joint Commission is kicking off a new voluntary certification program for hospitals' "responsible use" of health data. The effort aims to help address growing privacy concerns over the secondary use of patient data by third parties for artificial intelligence initiatives and other activities.

Trilogue Talks to Resume on FridayEuropean lawmakers and officials failed to hammer out a compromise regulation on artificial intelligence after two days of talks that stretched over 22 hours and were intended to culminate in a Thursday settlement. The European Union has been at work on the Artificial Intelligence Act since 2021.

Every year, experts weigh in with predictions of what the big cybersecurity trends will be—but how often are they right? That’s the question Trend Micro’s Greg Young and Bill Malik asked recently on their Real Cybersecurity podcast, looking at what forecasters got wrong on a wide range of topics, from AI to human factors.

Every year, experts weigh in with predictions of what the big cybersecurity trends will be—but how often are they right? That’s the question Trend Micro’s Greg Young and Bill Malik asked recently on their Real Cybersecurity podcast, looking at what forecasters got wrong on a wide range of topics, from AI to human factors.

Researchers Automate Tricking LLMs Into Providing Harmful InformationA small group of researchers says it has identified an automated method for jailbreaking OpenAI, Meta and Google large language models with no obvious fix. Just like the algorithms that researchers can force into giving dangerous or undesirable responses, the technique depends on machine learning.

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Predicts cybercrims will find binary brainboxes harder to battle Cisco’s executive veep for security Jeetu Patel has predicted that AI will change the infosec landscape, but that end users will eventually pay for the privilege of having a binary brainbox by their side when they go into battle.…

As LLMs begin to integrate multimodal capabilities, attackers could use hidden instructions in images and audio to get a chatbot to respond the way they want, say researchers at Black Hat Europe 2023.

Hugging Face Fixes Flaw; Meta, Other Tech Giants Revoke Vulnerable TokensSecurity researchers could access and modify an artificial intelligence code generation model developed by Facebook after scanning for API access tokens on AI developer platform Hugging Face and code repository GitHub. Tampering with training data is among the top threats to large language models.

TSA Official Details How Agency Aims to Implement AI Systems Across OperationsThe Transportation Security Administration is exploring the possibilities of a future of U.S. travel "underpinned by AI advancements," according to the agency's deputy CIO, with next-generation technologies shaping new verification and threat detection efforts.

Zombie APIs are becoming more common, just because of the sheer number APIs and third-party vendors that organizations rely on. Joshua Scott, head of information security and IT at API platform Postman, says businesses need to identify "what is critical to the business and map backward."

US government organizations responsible for making sure healthcare products are safe and effective have proposed rules and are soliciting industry feedback regarding artificial intelligence and machine learning.

AI could be a net positive for security, with a caveat: It could make security teams dangerously complacent.

The Russia-linked influence operation called Doppelganger has targeted Ukrainian, U.S., and German audiences through a combination of inauthentic news sites and social media accounts