Skeleton Key AI attacks unlock malicious content

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: A newly discovered jailbreak – also known as a direct prompt injection attack – called Skeleton Key, affects numerous generative AI models. A successful Skeleton Key attack subverts most, if not all, of the AI safety guardrails that LLM developers built into models. In other words, Skeleton Key attacks coax AI chatbots into […]

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Upcoming Book on AI and Democracy

If you’ve been reading my blog, you’ve noticed that I have written a lot about AI and democracy, mostly with my co-author Nathan Sanders. I am pleased to announce that we’re writing a book on the topic. This isn’t a book about deep fakes, or misinformation. This is a book about what happens when AI … Read more

CVE-2024-5655: GitLab Fixes CI/CD Vulnerability & 13 Other Flaws With Latest Patch Release

A security flaw that impacts specific versions of GitLab’s Community and Enterprise Edition products was just detected. This vulnerability can be exploited to execute pipelines under any user’s credentials. GitLab is a web-based DevOps platform offering tools for software development, version control, and project management. Launched as an open-source project in 2011, it has become … Read more

Critical Flaws in CocoaPods Expose iOS and macOS Apps to Supply Chain Attacks

A trio of security flaws has been uncovered in the CocoaPods dependency manager for Swift and Objective-C Cocoa projects that could be exploited to stage software supply chain attacks, putting downstream customers at severe risks.
The vulnerabilities allow “any malicious actor to claim ownership over thousands of unclaimed pods and insert malicious code into many of the most popular iOS and