Using LLMs to Unredact Text

March 11, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Initial results in using LLMs to unredact text based on the size of the individual-word redaction rectangles. This feels like something that a specialized ML system could be trained on.

Telemedicine Business Owner Faces 20 Years For $136m Fraud

March 11, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Nurse practitioner pleads guilty to $136m Medicare fraud plot involving her telemedicine companies

Russia’s Midnight Blizzard Accesses Microsoft Source Code

March 11, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Threat group APT29 is using secrets stolen in an earlier attack to compromise Microsoft’s internal systems

UnitedHealth Sets Timeline to Restore Change Healthcare Systems After BlackCat Hit

March 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

UnitedHealth said it expects Change Healthcare’s key systems to be restored by March 18, amid reports it paid a $22m ransom to BlackCat

CISA needs better workforce planning to handle operational technology risks, GAO says

March 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has an understaffed and often ill-equipped workforce to deal with risks to the nation’s key operational technology systems, the Government Accountability Office said in

White House advisory group says market forces ‘insufficient’ to drive cybersecurity in critical infrastructure

March 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

A White House advisory board is recommending the federal government create new economic incentive programs to prod critical infrastructure owners and operators to raise their cybersecurity standards, develop new liability

Essays from the Second IWORD

March 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

The Ash Center has posted a series of twelve essays stemming from the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy (IWORD 2023). Aviv Ovadya, Democracy as Approximation: A Primer for “AI

Dropbox Used to Steal Credentials and Bypass MFA in Novel Phishing Campaign

March 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Darktrace reveals a novel phishing campaign where attackers leveraged legitimate Dropbox infrastructure to steal credentials before bypassing MFA

A Close Up Look at the Consumer Data Broker Radaris

March 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

If you live in the United States, the data broker Radaris likely knows a great deal about you, and they are happy to sell what they know to anyone. But

A Taxonomy of Prompt Injection Attacks

March 9, 2024 0 Comments 0 tags

Researchers ran a global prompt hacking competition, and have documented the results in a paper that both gives a lot of good examples and tries to organize a taxonomy of