About this episode

The episode discusses the impact of AI on cybersecurity, highlighting state-sponsored attacks and the evolving landscape of software vulnerabilities.

AI is now uncovering and fixing thousands of hidden software bugs faster than humans can keep up, but not everyone is playing by the rules. Find out how state-sponsored attackers and careless disclosures are turning the cybersecurity playbook upside down. Win10's popularity forces another year of free updates. CISA directs all federal agencies to update their UniFi OS devices. CISA gave federal agencies "the weekend" to update Cisco devices. Australia is disturbed by a deeply compromised infrastructure provider. OpenAI introduces Daybreak-powered "Patch the Planet" initiative. Meta's employee monitoring-for-AI-training backfired badly. Script Kiddies figure out how to use AI to find vulnerabilities. AI improves with "looping", "repeating" or "iterating". A wonderful story about Kevin Mitnick. Serious hackers mistakenly left a server directory accessible Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1085-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now . You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page . For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: grc.com…

People in this episode

Hosts: Steve Gibson, Leo Laporte

Topics covered

• AI in cybersecurity
• state-sponsored attacks
• software vulnerabilities
• CISA updates
• employee monitoring
• loop engineering

Keywords

• AI
• cybersecurity
• state-sponsored
• software bugs
• CISA
• vulnerabilities
• Kevin Mitnick
• loop engineering

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: CISA, OpenAI, Meta, Cisco, UniFi OS

Products: Spinrite 6

Places: Australia

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