Thanks to GenAI, cyberattacks are coming faster and harder than ever before. The IC3 consortium at MIT Sloan warns that: “AI is being used regularly in cyberattacks to create malware, phishing ...

In 2024, Stanford researchers let loose five AI models — including an unmodified version of OpenAI’s GPT-4, its most advanced at the time — allowing them to make high-stakes, society-level decisions ...

Law enforcement agencies are using artificial intelligence to help solve crimes more efficiently. AI can organize evidence, enhance biometric recognition and speed up forensic analysis. The technology ...

Keyspace is a cross-platform password auditing tool designed for authorized security testing and research. It provides a PyQt6-based graphical interface and a modular backend supporting multiple ...

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Facepalm: As we continue waiting for it to find a cure for cancer, it seems there's something else that AI isn't very good at: generating passwords. New research suggests that asking large language ...

The era of AI has not been particularly great for cybersecurity. We know that vibe-coded websites and apps have been a hotbed of security flaws that leave the platforms vulnerable to attacks. It turns ...

Normal Methods: This Method is Introduced for Simple Passwords and is Better for Cracking Passwords that are Usually Used Short Sequential Methods: This method aims to crack passwords that are only ...

Passwords remain a persistent point of tension between usability and security. Controls designed to strengthen authentication often introduce complexity, which encourages users to rely on familiar ...

Snowflake has launched Cortex Code, an AI-based coding agent that aims to extend AI assistance beyond SQL generation and conversational analytics into data and app development tasks. Cortex Code is ...

Order doesn’t always form perfectly—and those imperfections can be surprisingly powerful. In materials like liquid crystals, tiny “defects” emerge when symmetry breaks, shaping everything from cosmic ...

AMD has just been directly accused of submitting AI-generated code that hasn't been checked properly by a human to one of the longest-running open source software projects around. So unimpressed was ...