Collaborate Disseminate
Last month at the RSA Conference, I saw a lot of companies selling security incident response automation. Their promise was to replace people with computers – sometimes with the addition of machine learning or other artificial intelligence techniques – and to respond to attacks at computer speeds. While this is a laudable goal, there’s a fundamental problem with doing this… Continue reading Security Orchestration and Incident Response
Interesting research: "Using Artificial Intelligence to Identify State Secrets," by Renato Rocha Souza, Flavio Codeco Coelho, Rohan Shah, and Matthew Connelly. Abstract: Whether officials can be trusted to protect national security information has become a matter of great public controversy, reigniting a long-standing debate about the scope and nature of official secrecy. The declassification of millions of electronic records has… Continue reading Automatically Identifying Government Secrets
This is some interesting research. You can fool facial recognition systems by wearing glasses printed with elements of other people’s faces. Mahmood Sharif, Sruti Bhagavatula, Lujo Bauer, and Michael K. Reiter, "Accessorize to a Crime: Real and Stealthy Attacks on State-of-the-Art Face Recognition": ABSTRACT: Machine learning is enabling a myriad innovations, including new algorithms for cancer diagnosis and self-driving cars…. Continue reading Fooling Facial Recognition Systems
Researchers have trained a neural network to encrypt its communications. In their experiment, computers were able to make their own form of encryption using machine learning, without being taught specific cryptographic algorithms. The encryption was very basic, especially compared to our current human-designed systems. Even so, it is still an interesting step for neural nets, which the authors state "are… Continue reading Teaching a Neural Network to Encrypt
Researchers have trained a neural network to encrypt its communications. In their experiment, computers were able to make their own form of encryption using machine learning, without being taught specific cryptographic algorithms. The encryption was very basic, especially compared to our current human-designed systems. Even so, it is still an interesting step for neural nets, which the authors state "are… Continue reading Teaching a Neural Network to Encrypt
It’s not hard to imagine the criminal possibilities of automation, autonomy, and artificial intelligence. But the imaginings are becoming mainstream — and the future isn’t too far off. Along similar lines, computers are able to predict court verdicts. My guess is that the real use here isn’t to predict actual court verdicts, but for well-paid defense teams to test various… Continue reading Malicious AI