Cybersecurity’s Black October: How to protect yourself
Each day brings news of another AI-powered attack, or a newly discovered vulnerability. Here’s what’s happening and how ordinary people can protect themselves online.
Each day brings news of another AI-powered attack, or a newly discovered vulnerability. Here’s what’s happening and how ordinary people can protect themselves online.
What’s being dubbed Black October isn’t even over, and it’s already brought about several dozen major cyberattacks and AI-identified vulnerabilities across the internet.
When critical vulnerabilities in PHP, the programming language used by around 70% of websites, were uncovered with the help of AI tools and disclosed by the PHP Foundation on Oct. 21, the race to patch servers around the world began.
Unfortunately, he adds that AI’s ability to find vulnerabilities is not matched by its ability to fix them: