Tag: RMF

  • Hacker News: Generative AI Has an E-Waste Problem

    Source URL: https://spectrum.ieee.org/e-waste Source: Hacker News Title: Generative AI Has an E-Waste Problem Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant increase in private investment in generative AI and its substantial impact on the production of electronic waste (e-waste), particularly focusing on large language models (LLMs). It highlights the…

  • Alerts: Foreign Threat Actor Conducting Large-Scale Spear-Phishing Campaign with RDP Attachments

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/31/foreign-threat-actor-conducting-large-scale-spear-phishing-campaign-rdp-attachments Source: Alerts Title: Foreign Threat Actor Conducting Large-Scale Spear-Phishing Campaign with RDP Attachments Feedly Summary: CISA has received multiple reports of a large-scale spear-phishing campaign targeting organizations in several sectors, including government and information technology (IT). The foreign threat actor, often posing as a trusted entity, is sending spear-phishing emails containing malicious…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Threat actors use copyright infringement phishing lure to deploy infostealers

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/threat-actors-use-copyright-infringement-phishing-lure-to-deploy-infostealers/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Threat actors use copyright infringement phishing lure to deploy infostealers Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos has observed an unknown threat actor conducting a phishing campaign targeting Facebook business and advertising account users in Taiwan. The decoy email and fake PDF filenames are designed to impersonate a company’s legal department,…

  • Hacker News: The Karma Connection in Chrome Web Store

    Source URL: https://palant.info/2024/10/30/the-karma-connection-in-chrome-web-store/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Karma Connection in Chrome Web Store Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines a significant security concern related to Chrome extensions that have transitioned into malicious actors, particularly focusing on the behaviors of the “Hide YouTube Shorts” extension and other associated extensions…

  • Wired: OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/hospitals-ai-transcription-tools-hallucination/ Source: Wired Title: OpenAI’s Transcription Tool Hallucinates. Hospitals Are Using It Anyway Feedly Summary: In health care settings, it’s important to be precise. That’s why the widespread use of OpenAI’s Whisper transcription tool among medical workers has experts alarmed. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses an investigation revealing serious…

  • The Register: How to jailbreak ChatGPT and trick the AI into writing exploit code using hex encoding

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/chatgpt_hex_encoded_jailbreak/ Source: The Register Title: How to jailbreak ChatGPT and trick the AI into writing exploit code using hex encoding Feedly Summary: ‘It was like watching a robot going rogue’ says researcher OpenAI’s language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an…

  • Slashdot: Researchers Say AI Transcription Tool Used In Hospitals Invents Things

    Source URL: https://science.slashdot.org/story/24/10/29/0649249/researchers-say-ai-transcription-tool-used-in-hospitals-invents-things?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Researchers Say AI Transcription Tool Used In Hospitals Invents Things Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report discusses significant flaws in OpenAI’s Whisper transcription tool, particularly its tendency to generate hallucinations—fabricated text that can include harmful content. This issue raises concerns regarding the tool’s reliability in…

  • The Register: Google reportedly developing an AI agent that can control your browser

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/28/google_ai_web_agent/ Source: The Register Title: Google reportedly developing an AI agent that can control your browser Feedly Summary: Project Jarvis will apparently conduct research, purchase products, and even book a flight on your behalf Google is reportedly looking to sidestep the complexity of AI-driven automation by letting its multimodal large language models (LLMs)…

  • Slashdot: Researchers Say AI Tool Used in Hospitals Invents Things No One Ever Said

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/10/28/1510255/researchers-say-ai-tool-used-in-hospitals-invents-things-no-one-ever-said?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Researchers Say AI Tool Used in Hospitals Invents Things No One Ever Said Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a report on OpenAI’s Whisper tool, revealing significant flaws related to hallucinations—instances where the AI fabricates text—which can lead to harmful content. This raises critical…