Tag: emerging

Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/technology/personaltech/ai-kids-photos.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Why A.I. Should Make Parents Rethink Posting Photos of Their Children Online Feedly Summary: Artificial intelligence apps generating fake nudes, amid other privacy concerns, make “sharenting” far riskier than it was just a few years ago. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

Slashdot: $1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/0037258/1m-stolen-in-industrial-scale-crypto-theft-using-ai-generated-code?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: $1M Stolen in ‘Industrial-Scale Crypto Theft’ Using AI-Generated Code Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a sophisticated cybercrime operation, GreedyBear, which utilizes a highly coordinated strategy, weaponizing browser extensions and phishing sites to facilitate industrial-scale crypto theft. The group’s innovative techniques, including the modification…

The Register: Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console

Aug 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/infosec_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console Feedly Summary: PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more! Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro’s Apex One endpoint security platform…

Slashdot: Google Says Its AI-Based Bug Hunter Found 20 Security Vulnerabilities

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Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/09/1947230/google-says-its-ai-based-bug-hunter-found-20-security-vulnerabilities Source: Slashdot Title: Google Says Its AI-Based Bug Hunter Found 20 Security Vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s Big Sleep, an LLM-based vulnerability researcher, reported 20 vulnerabilities in popular open-source software, marking a significant advancement in automated vulnerability discovery. This highlights the increasing efficacy of AI tools in…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/ethan-mollick/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: The issue with GPT-5 in a nutshell is that unless you pay for model switching & know to use GPT-5 Thinking or Pro, when you ask “GPT-5” you sometimes get the best available AI & sometimes get one of the worst AIs…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: When a Jira Ticket Can Steal Your Secrets

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/when-a-jira-ticket-can-steal-your-secrets/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: When a Jira Ticket Can Steal Your Secrets Feedly Summary: When a Jira Ticket Can Steal Your Secrets Zenity Labs describe a classic lethal trifecta attack, this time against Cursor, MCP, Jira and Zendesk. They also have a short video demonstrating the issue. Zendesk support emails are…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/bay-area-ai/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup Feedly Summary: I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and the challenges of securing systems that use MCP. It wasn’t recorded but I’ve created…

Cloud Blog: Looker debuts MCP Server to broaden AI developer access to data

Aug 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/business-intelligence/introducing-looker-mcp-server/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Looker debuts MCP Server to broaden AI developer access to data Feedly Summary: As companies integrate AI into their workflows, connecting new tools to their existing data while ensuring consistent security and accuracy becomes increasingly important. We’re introducing Looker Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server, an integration in the…

The Register: Infosec hounds spot prompt injection vuln in Google Gemini apps

Aug 8, 2025

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