This slide shows how a membership inference attack might start. Assessing the product of an app asked to generate an image of a professor teaching students in “the style of”…
Tag: Security
50 countries warn UN of ransomware attacks on hospitals
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The World Health Organization and some 50 countries issued a warning Friday at the United Nations about the rise of ransomware attacks against hospitals, with the…
Secure messaging through distributed messages
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Most internet communications today rely on the TLS (Transport Layer Security) protocol, which protects against eavesdropping on the network, but not against access by service providers…
Study shows that LLMs could maliciously be used to poison biomedical knowledge graphs
Scorpius generates a malicious paper and mixes it with real papers. This poisoned knowledge graph will contain a malicious link. As a result, the relevance between a promoted drug and…
AI video generation expert discusses the technology’s rapid advances—and its current limitations
Credit: AI-generated image This presidential cycle has already seen several high-profile examples of people using deepfakes to try to influence voters. Deepfakes are images, audio recordings, or videos generated or…
Dangers of the metaverse and VR for US youth revealed in new research
32.6% of U.S. youth own a virtual reality (VR) headset (41% of boys vs. 25.1% of girls). Credit: Florida Atlantic University The metaverse, a space where the lines between physical…
AI-driven video analyzer sets new standards in human action detection
Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain What if a security camera could not only capture video but understand what’s happening—distinguishing between routine activities and potentially dangerous behavior in real time? That’s the…
Legal system fails to protect people from malicious copyright cases at the cost of sexual privacy, study warns
Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain Changes need to be made to the UK legal system to protect people from exploitative litigation designed to prey on vulnerabilities, a new study warns. Reforms…
US seizes internet domains allegedly used by Russian hackers
The United States announced the seizure of 41 internet domains allegedly used by Russian intelligence agents. The United States announced the seizure on Thursday of 41 internet domains allegedly used…
