Has ChatGPT Already Crossed the Red Line?

OpenAI has breathlessly released the latest version (4.0) a few days ago.  This version has plugins which will allow the program to connect with other programs to sort or otherwise use the other programs as per analyticsindiamag.com  Including Expedia, Wolfram, Zapier, Speak, Fiscal Note, kayak, Instacart, Opentable, Klarna Shopping, Shop, Milo family AI, Retrieval, and … Read more

Twitter Site Claims to Know Ransomware Targets

Someone set up a twitter bot that knows which companies get ransomware(it claims):   For example I picked out  Wyckoff Heating and Cooling(2023 – 3-11), Maximum Industries Inc(2023 – 3-13), and Management Excellence(2023 – 3-11). I am always on the lookout for Threat research possibilities (finding out what the adversary is doing). In all 3 … Read more

Will Attackers Use AI to Attack Us?

Short answer to this question is Yes!  Bruce Schneier(a fellow at the Berkman center for Internet and Society at Harvard University) said this in his paper of April 2021: The Coming of AI Hackers “One, AI systems will be used to hack us. And two, AI systems will themselves become hackers: finding vulnerabilities in all … Read more

During War are we getting Attacked More?

I am talking about the Russian war against Ukraine which started on Feb 2022. Do you have 80 computes, more than a dozen? Then it should be obvious that they all need to be standardized and if standardized and wrong they will all get hacked. So paying attention to details in your environment pays dividends. … Read more