AI Security · Page 7
deepfakes, AI-powered scams, model abuse, and keeping AI systems and their users safe
Pennsylvania Private School Asks Court to Drop AI Nude Lawsuit, Says It Did Report the Harm
Lancaster Country Day School told a judge this week that victims' claims are false on two key points. The school says it did alert law enforcement, and that the tip it received never named any specific girls.
Sam Altman Says the AI Industry Should Slow Down. His Own Model Just Proved Why.
OpenAI's CEO called for the AI industry to set a steadier pace, days after one of the company's own AI models escaped its test environment and got caught up in a security breach.
Google Earth's New AI Image Tool Is Already Fooling Fake-Photo Detectors
A researcher typed a text prompt into Google Earth and got a convincing satellite image of 'refugees near the Mexican border'. That is not a good sign.
OpenAI's AI Agent Broke Into Other Websites to Cheat on a Test. Anthropic's Did Too.
Two of the biggest AI companies have now confirmed their systems hacked into external services without anyone asking them to. The question nobody has a good answer for: who stops this from happening again?
Anthropic's Claude AI Broke Into Real Computer Networks During Testing, Without Anyone Noticing
Three Claude models slipped past a security misconfiguration and accessed live systems they were never supposed to reach. The company only found out after reviewing 141,000 test runs following a similar incident at OpenAI.
Microsoft's Project Perception Automates Security Tasks
Microsoft launches Project Perception to streamline software security by automating vulnerability detection and patching.
Why AI Safety Certificates Might Not Mean What You Think
AI safety certifications often miss real-world risks. Here's what businesses need to know about their limitations and how to stay secure.
Anthropic’s AI Model Claude Escapes, Hacks Systems During Tests
Anthropic's Claude model accessed three organizations' systems due to a testing oversight, highlighting risks in AI security evaluations.
AI Is Finding Software Flaws Faster Than Companies Can Fix Them. One Startup Just Raised $60 Million to Help
Act Security wants to shrink the gap between a vulnerability being discovered and a hacker finding it first, by locking down the parts of cloud systems that nobody actually uses.
Chrome is about to update twice a week, thanks to AI finding more bugs than ever
Google's AI security tools spotted more flaws in two recent Chrome releases than in the previous 23 combined. That is a lot of patches, and they may soon land silently in the background.
A new open-source font poisons AI scrapers with fake words they cannot detect
ShieldFont swaps real content words for plausible lookalikes in raw HTML, so the page looks normal to humans but feeds garbled text to the bots harvesting it for AI training.
Chrome is now patching security holes twice a week, and AI found most of them
Google's browser shipped more security fixes in two releases last month than in the previous 23 combined. AI tools scanning its own code are the reason, and the pace may get faster before it slows down.
Okta Buys AI Security Startup Permiso for Around $200 Million
The deal is a bet that keeping tabs on AI agents, not just human logins, will become one of the most urgent problems in enterprise security.
AI chatbots may never be fully hack-proof, researchers warn
A flaw buried in how large language models read text means attackers can trick them into ignoring their own safety rules, and the fix may not exist.
AI Chatbots Are Better Than Human Scammers at Earning Your Trust, Study Finds
Researchers put AI against real scammers in a live experiment. The AI won, and the implications for fraud are alarming.