I’ve had a couple of friends ask me if I’m prepping.
Prepping for what?
I see the UK is doing a Be Prepared campaign and Fucking Dan Bongino said something on a podcast. What’s that about?
I’ve had a couple of friends ask me if I’m prepping.
Prepping for what?
I see the UK is doing a Be Prepared campaign and Fucking Dan Bongino said something on a podcast. What’s that about?
If people are using LLMs to find vulnerabilities then why doesn’t cybersecurity do the same. Run patches and updates through simulations until it’s as AI proof as possible. Is there a reason why AI can’t be used for white hatting?
Many are, but it’s not enough. Yes ai is expected to be used to automate white hatting, and already is by the most reasonable and advanced orgs, but greed and stupidity do exist and always will. Many companies fired or minimized security staff because they wanted to minimize overhead or thought ai would make one security staff member able to do the job of five. Many servers and sites just sit there run by private individuals or small companies that don’t even have a cybersecurity team.
A huge issue is ai tools have done a very specific thing that makes it harder to shore up - it used to be tedious and boring to implement hacks once a vulnerability was discovered, so a vulnerability would sit unused for days, weeks, months. Ai now ca do all that tedious, boring work for you, and lowers the bar for who can. That drastically increases the number of attacks and the discovery and dissemination of zero day hacks. Ai won’t be omniscient, so it won’t prevent everything even when it can be always on and just as capable defensively.
Also, it’s a good rule of thumb to expect destructive forces to take less time than constructive ones, depending on the target and the goals. Constructing things properly takes care and planning, but taking a sledgehammer to a system can be pretty swift if you know where to hit
So the root problem goes back to capitalism really. AI is the tool but greed and ignorance are the engine as usual.
That’s how I read it too. All because they hope it pays off for rich people… and maybe some of us poors. But probably not.
Whose AI are you using to secure your systems? If you’re in the UK and your using American AI to harden things, you could be just installing their back doors. Maybe you get the lesser AI and they use the top of the line.
Edit maybe they just quietly interfere with your cloud infra, under a secret presidential order.
I’m not sure what you’re talking about. A white hat would design their own AI for the specific purpose of stress testing a security system.
Not sure what you’re talking about. A white hat doing home hobbyist levels of DIY AI building will get blown out of the water by the corporations and governments sponsoring serious systems.
I don’t understand why you think someone contracted or works for a cybersecurity company would be some hobbyist DIY guy with a computer.
Cause you are talking about some guy, not the collective efforts of companies or governments.
What gave you the impression that I was just talking about some guy
A white hat, singular. Sorry if I misunderstood. In retrospect you could have been implying a white hat org.
Would you consider a white hat to be “some guy” or someone that actually has knowledge of hacking