… Instead, she says, it is another step toward the security version of infinite monkeys at infinite typewriters eventually producing Shakespeare. “If you get a million vulnerability researchers, they can find a huge number of bugs. …
… They're submitted in a never-before-seen frequency and put us under serious load.” And at the end of April, Google announced that it was overhauling its Vulnerability Reward Programs for Chrome and Android and lowering payouts for some classes of bugs, while increasing others. “As the security rese… …
… And so we do need a plan to respond to this.” Anthropic's Graham notes that in addition to vulnerability discovery—including producing potential attack chains and proofs of concept—Mythos Preview is capable of more advanced exploit development, penetration testing, endpoint security assessment, hun… …
… This week, in response to the issue, Apple released an iOS and iPadOS security update to fix the flaw. “Notifications marked for deletion could be unexpectedly retained on the device,” Apple’s security update for iOS 26.4.2 says. “A logging issue was addressed with improved data redaction.” While t… …
… Independent security researcher Johnny Franks tells WIRED that he found yet another new, active domain—a fake website written in English, capable of infecting US-based users—that was part of a DarkSword hacking campaign as late as Thursday of last week, a finding confirmed by mobile security firm i… …
… According to the complaint, he also led a jet-set life, traveling from Dubai to Thailand to New York and appearing in one photo wearing a diamond-studded necklace that read “HACK THE PLANET.” Medicare Database Exposes Health Care Providers’ Social Security Numbers A Medicare database left accessibl… …
… For years, he says, Firefox and other organizations have relied on a combination of automated vulnerability hunting techniques, like software fuzzing, and manual vulnerability hunting by internal and external researchers to find and fix flaws. …
… The response was filed in a federal court in San Francisco, one of two venues where Anthropic is challenging the Pentagon’s decision to sanction the company with a label that can bar companies from defense contracts over concerns about potential security vulnerabilities. …
… It's really too easy.” An Apple spokesperson told WIRED in a statement that “every day Apple's security teams around the world work tirelessly to protect users' devices and data,” and noted that Apple had released security updates that would protect users from both Coruna and DarkSword, including e… …
… Hutchins argues that it’s this practical use of AI for enabling hacking operations that should be the cybersecurity’s industry’s focus, not the notion of some future vulnerability discovery AI. “We're thinking we need to build defenses for the hypothetical Skynet that’s going to blast through all o… …