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SECURITY
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Why Neural Networks Resist Data Poisoning Attacks Better
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It's well known that NNs are very vulnerable to adversarial interventions, e.g., indiscernible test-time attacks. But indiscriminate data poisoning, wherein the attacker modifies a small fraction of the training data to reduce the test accuracy, seems to be much harder! Why? 2/n
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New faster attack method developed for AI security
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We make a modest step in this direction. We come up with a new attack that is much faster and more effective than previous methods. Still not as effective as I'd like though! I won't write a long thread here since I think we'll have more to say soon, stay tuned 3/n
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Neural Networks Poisoning Attacks Research Paper Accepted
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Paper accepted to @TmlrOrg
: "Indiscriminate Data Poisoning Attacks on Neural Networks," led by Yiwei Lu and co-advised with Yaoliang Yu. Neural networks are surprisingly hard to (indiscriminately) poison! We give better attacks. https://
openreview.net/forum?id=x4hmI
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Deepfake Risks: Text, Audio, and Video Concerns
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Can you spell that out? my immediate concerns are mainly around text and audio, though definitely fake video w public figures etc surely has risks.
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Social Media Struggles with AI Scale Management
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social media have no effective way of dealing w likely increase in scale
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China Orchestrating Cyber Attacks on Allies and Competitors
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#China orchestrating cyber attacks on allies, competitors https://
sentinelassam.com/international/
china-orchestrating-cyber-attacks-on-allies-competitors-636204?utm_source=web-social-share&utm_partner=asentinel&utm_campaign=share&utm_medium=twitter
… #RCE #ZeroTrust #ZeroDay #cybercrime #hacker #privacy #APT #bot #CISO #DDoS #hacking #phishing #CyberAttack #cybersecurity #Security #infosec #AppSec #cyber #databreach #Hacked #BugBounty #spyware -
0ktapus Hackers Return Targeting Tech Gaming Companies
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‘0ktapus’ hackers are back and targeting #tech and #gaming companies! https://
businessghana.com/site/news/tech
nology/279309/0ktapus-hackers-are-back-and-targeting-tech-and-gaming-companies-says-leaked-report
… #RCE #ZeroTrust #ZeroDay #cybercrime #hackers #privacy #APT #bot #CISO #DDoS #hacking #phishing #CyberAttack #cybersecurity #Security #infosec #AppSec #cyber #DataBreach #Hacked #data -

Security Mindset Culture: Breaking Things Instead of Imagining Success
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This is one of the more hopeful processes happening on Earth right now – because it may give rise to a culture of people with something like security mindset, who try to break things, instead of imagining how wonderfully they'll work. https://
lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bS
o6rAFoLqg/solidgoldmagikarp-plus-prompt-generation
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Geopolitical Shift: Democracy Threats Reshape Global Order
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Globalization was being transformed already due to major demographic shifts. But the awakening to the threats to democracy posed by China and Russia have significantly accelerated the transformation.
