Alcino Donadel reports: …. Instructure, the edtech company behind learning management system Canvas, suffered one of the largest data breaches in the U.S. this year after cybercriminals gained access through a third-party vendor—an increasingly common occurrence in higher ed. Higher education’s more meditative, governed approach to technological change is useful for reviewing rigor and long-term quality assurance, Pendleton...

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Miranda Nazzaro reports: More than a dozen Republican attorneys general are calling on OpenAI to preserve records on its models’ recent breach of another company, suggesting the AI firm may have violated state or federal laws in the incident. In a letter sent Monday to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, 15 attorneys general wrote the ChatGPT-maker may have...

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Lab-1 Dark-web Research Team Contributors:Alex Necula, Anastasia Sentasnova, Ellis Stannard, Jeffrey Bell, Manuel Boll, Valéry Rieß-Marchive Mannie W writes: Ransomware and data-extortion groups are moving beyond bulk dumps to analyze, index and price stolen data before it is published or sold — removing the “weaponization tax” and turning breaches into searchable, tranched and targetable assets....

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It’s happened. The nightmare of the future is now in our present. Or was this just old-fashioned negligence? Lily Hay Newman and Dell Cameron report: OpenAI disclosed on Tuesday that it lost control of two AI models during a security test that ended in a breach of the open AI research platform Hugging Face. Describing the incident as...

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Abror Shuhratov reports: xAI, the company founded by Elon Musk, has announced emergency measures following a serious controversy involving the unauthorized uploading of users’ private code and confidential information to a server via the Grok Build CLI tool. The company’s head stated that, for security reasons, all previously uploaded user data will be permanently deleted. This decision...

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Anthony Cuthbertson reports: Security researchers have uncovered what they believe to be the first ever instance of an artificial intelligence agent executing a cyber attack from start to finish without human assistance. The AI-powered attack marks a major milestone for both artificial intelligence and cyber security, raising concerns that AI is lowering the barrier for cyber criminals. The fully automated campaign involved...

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MITSloan reports: The intelligence alliance of the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, commonly known as Five Eyes, has raised concerns over rapidly advancing artificial intelligence, which can supercharge offensive hacking capabilities. In a three-page statement, the alliance called for urgent action to confront the threat. “Frontier AI models are anticipated to...

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Jason Koebler reports: Hackers say that they used Meta’s AI support chatbot to break into a host of high-profile Instagram profiles by asking the support bot to change the email address associated with the target account. The claims coincide with a series of high-profile Instagram account takeovers, including the Barack Obama White House account, the Chief Master...

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