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Episode 12.21 - Is AI destroying collaborative engineering (opens the original)
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Back in May the coding world reeled to the news that a hacking group, using customized AI agents, had breached Github and stolen 3,800 of its internal repositories by a threat actor group tracked as TeamPCP. The attack was designed to stay under the radar: it ran entirely within normal user permissions and explicitly avoided privilege escalation, so it looked like ordinary developer/AI-assisted activity rather than an attack. The question that comes out of this is, are AI agents fundamentally ch
Episode 12.20 - Cities make like shepherds and get the Flock out (opens the original)
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Flock has been in the news recently in a backlash against municipal surveillance, but this technology has been in use for half a century. Why the problem now? We sat down to talk with a city commissioner from Del Ray Beach, Florida, Tom Markert, who also consults with the FBI on cybersecurity. He's something of a rennaissance man wh, in addition to his corporate and civic work, also writes thrillers and screenplay related to technology and government. He had some insight into the controversy and
Episode 12.19 - I knew it was AI marketing BS! (opens the original)
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A few months ago the tech world went into a tizzy over Anthropic's announcement that it's latest fronter AI incarnation was finding zero-day vulnerabilities. My BS meter started pinging immediately. A zero-day attack requires finding a system vulnerability that no one knows about. It is about as creative a process that a blackhatter can pull off. But AIs can't do anything new or creative. It's output is always based on something a human has already done and shared on the internet. Then I got a p
Episode 12.18 - So what's the deal with AI watermarks? (opens the original)
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It seems the entire cybersecurity industry went on vacation after Blackhat USA last week because every interview I scheduled for this podcast went belly up with cancellations. So at our Monday staff meeting, my EU partner Patrick Boch and I decided to fill the gap this week regarding Anthropic's AI watermark tech. We decided it's not that big a deal. The are a regulatory response (EU), not a choice designed protect publishers from uncopyrightable AI-generated content, and prevent plagiarism. Ama
12.17 - Getting back control of personal information (opens the original)
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In a world of employment upheaval, job seekers are freely sending out millions of documents containing significant personal information. Whether called CVs or resumes, these documents can be used to impersonate and defraud employers and the job seekers alike. Chris Els, founder of P3 Audit, a data compliance and supply chain risk company, is developing a technology to help get that massive amount of information back under control of those who own it. We talked with him about its importance.
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