Another Thursday, another pile of weird security stuff that somehow happened in just seven days. Some of it is clever. Some of it is lazy. A few bits fall into that uncomfortable category of “yeah… ...

Breaking into cybersecurity used to mean expensive certifications, bootcamps, or years of trial and error. Now, it mostly means learning the right skills — and ...

More than 40,000 WordPress sites using the Quiz and Survey Master plugin have been affected by a SQL injection vulnerability that allowed authenticated users to interfere with database queries. The ...

Prompt injections have become one of the biggest emerging threats to the modern home as AI adoption grows. It's a new era of malware -- and one that requires new defenses. Tyler Lacoma Editor / Home ...

The vast majority (82%) of ethical hackers now use AI in their workflows, enabling companies to benefit from faster findings, more assessments, broader security coverage and higher quality reporting, ...

Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) are being woven into software systems at a remarkable pace. When these systems include a back-end database, LLM integration opens new attack surfaces for SQL ...

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While most kids on computers are accidentally charging 100 bucks to their parents' credit cards playing Roblox, this person managed to gain access to top-secret FBI files. When Chris Kubecka was 10 ...

Researchers from MIT, Northeastern University, and Meta recently released a paper suggesting that large language models (LLMs) similar to those that power ChatGPT may sometimes prioritize sentence ...