Research examines attack methods, defenses, and vulnerabilities, helping security teams understand risks and improve protection.
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Research is the systematic study of technologies, systems, attack methods, vulnerabilities, and defensive techniques to establish evidence and produce new findings. In information security, it includes work such as discovering flaws in software or protocols, analyzing malware and attacker behavior, testing cryptographic designs, and evaluating security controls. News under this tag may describe a proof of concept, a measurement study, or a proposed technique rather than a confirmed real-world attack.
For practitioners, research can change how risks are prioritized and mitigated. A demonstrated vulnerability may require vulnerability-management teams to verify affected assets, apply fixes, or add compensating controls; responsible disclosure gives developers time to assess and remediate before technical details enable exploitation. Research involving live systems, personal data, or offensive tooling also raises privacy, authorization, dual-use, and ethical concerns. Sound findings should state their assumptions, scope, limitations, and reproducibility, since laboratory results do not automatically show that an attack is practical in every environment.
A state-sponsored Scooby Doo villain has once again been thwarted by those meddling researchers.
"Tree of Attacks With Pruning" is the latest in a growing string of methods for eliciting unintended behavior from a large language model.
Black Hat researchers show top password managers on Android mobiles are prone to leak passwords when using WebView autofill function.
Despite a focus on the future, there's no indication of how well the cybersecurity basics needed to stay safe are being applied.
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.
Researchers at Lasso found 1,500+ tokens in total that gave them varying levels of access to LLM repositories at Google, Microsoft, VMware, and some 720 other organizations.