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The Dark Side of AI in Cybersecurity — AI-Generated Malware

Palo Alto Networks

In a thought-provoking interview on the Threat Vector podcast , Palo Alto Networks researchers Bar Matalon and Rem Dudas shed light on their groundbreaking research into AI-generated malware and shared their predictions for the future of AI in cybersecurity. And there is a bit of a longer version for that answer.

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Top 5 Security Trends for CIOs

CIO

With MFA, the website or application will send a text message or push notification to the user with a code to enter along with their password. Sometimes they simply don’t work, perhaps due to a change in contact lenses or a new tattoo. A second, more pernicious risk is the fact that ChatGPT can write malware.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Calls on Software Makers To Use Memory Safe Languages, as OpenSSF Issues Secure Software Principles

Tenable

Meanwhile, the OpenSSF published 10 key principles for secure software development. Plus, malware used in fake browser-update attacks ballooned in Q3. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued a clarion call for software makers to use so-called “memory safe” programming languages. And much more!

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Don’t gamble with your identity verification practices

CIO

Earlier this year, I wrote about the importance of organizations reviewing their password management strategies. In addition to the financial cost of the ransom payment, businesses can also lose revenue and productivity due to downtime and the need to recover from the attack. IBM Security pegged that same number higher, to 95%.

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Why you must extend Zero Trust to public cloud workloads

CIO

Why securing cloud workloads is an urgent matter In recent years, major cloud service providers encountered 6,000 malware samples actively communicating with them, underlining the magnitude of cloud security challenges. Due to the current economic circumstances security teams operate under budget constraints. 8 Complexity.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: ChatGPT Gets So-So Grade in Code Analysis Test, while JCDC Pledges To Focus on Protecting Critical Infrastructure

Tenable

Check out why ChatGPT’s code analysis skills left Carnegie Mellon researchers unimpressed. Meanwhile, CISA and OpenSSF shine a spotlight on the security of software package repositories. 1 - ChatGPT’s code analysis skills? Not great Thinking of using ChatGPT to detect flaws in your code? Review ChatGPT 3.5’s

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Deloitte Safeguards Software Development Lifecycle

Prisma Clud

Enterprises are accelerating public and hybrid cloud initiatives and the release cycle for code deployment frequency is often exponentiating. Palo Alto Networks and Deloitte have expanded their strategic alliance with a new SSDL offering to reinforce their customers' cloud environments with enhanced security measures from code to cloud.