Las Vegas didn’t fold during CrowdStrike outage

Sin City’s chief information officer says incident response playbooks and muscle memory limited the incident’s impact locally.

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DARPA competition shows promise of using AI to find and patch bugs

The multimillion dollar challenge is trying to harness artificial intelligence to deliver major gains in cybersecurity.

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White House to study open source software in critical infrastructure

The Biden administration is looking to understand just how widespread open-source software is in critical infrastructure.

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Hackaday Links: August 20, 2023

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In some ways, we’ve become a little jaded when it comes to news from Mars, which almost always has to do with the Ingenuity helicopter completing yet another successful flight. …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 20, 2023

Fifty minutes to hack ChatGPT: Inside the DEF CON competition to break AI

More than 2,000 hackers attacked cutting-edge chatbots to discover vulnerabilities — and demonstrated the challenges for red-teaming AI.

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Feds to hackers in Vegas: help us, you’re our only hope

Spot the fed was an easy game this year at hacker summer camp as White House and administration officials descended on the conferences.

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Data centers at risk due to flaws in power management software

Bugs found by Trellix researchers could allow for malicious hackers to gain access to sensitive sites like data centers.

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White House is fast-tracking executive order on artificial intelligence

President Biden’s top science adviser says a realization about the risks posed by AI is fueling an urgent effort to put up guardrails.

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Hacker vs. machine at DEF CON: Thousands of security researchers vie to outsmart AI in Las Vegas

The first-of-its-kind hacking contest will challenge security researchers to infiltrate and potentially compromise AI chatbots.

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White House launches AI Cyber Challenge to make software more secure

The Biden-Harris Administration has launched a major two-year competition using AI to protect the United States’ most important software, such as code that helps run the internet and critical infrastructure. The AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) will challeng… Continue reading White House launches AI Cyber Challenge to make software more secure