Trail of Bits’ Buttercup heads to DARPA’s AIxCC

With DARPA’s AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC) semifinal starting today at DEF CON 2024, we want to introduce Buttercup, our AIxCC submission. Buttercup is a Cyber Reasoning System (CRS) that combines conventional cybersecurity techniques like fuzzing and static analysis with AI and machine learning to find and fix software vulnerabilities. The system is designed to operate […]

August 9, 2024
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Should artificial intelligence be banned from nuclear weapons systems?

By: Professor Steffan Puwal Against a backdrop of conflict and global security concerns, 2023 may prove to have also been a pivotal year for automated nuclear weapons systems. A year that began with chatbots and Artificial Intelligence (AI) as the subjects of major news stories – some with particularly concerning headlines – ended with members of the […]

Should artificial intelligence be banned from nuclear weapons systems? was originally published on Global Security Review.

June 7, 2024
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Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear Deterrence Strategy

The document “Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear Deterrence Strategy 2023” outlines the Advanced Simulation and Computing (ASC) program’s strategy to integrate artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) into the U.S. nuclear deterrence mission. Here are the key points: Foreword and Executive Summary: The ASC program has utilized high-performance computing for nearly three decades to support […]

Artificial Intelligence for Nuclear Deterrence Strategy was originally published on Global Security Review.

June 7, 2024
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Assessing the security posture of a widely used vision model: YOLOv7

By Alvin Crighton, Anusha Ghosh, Suha Hussain, Heidy Khlaaf, and Jim Miller TL;DR: We identified 11 security vulnerabilities in YOLOv7, a popular computer vision framework, that could enable attacks including remote code execution (RCE), denial of service, and model differentials (where an attacker can trigger a model to perform differently in different contexts). Open-source software […]

November 15, 2023
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AI is transforming financial crime compliance

While 86% of compliance, operations, risk and IT professionals at banks and non-banking financial institutions (NBFIs) surveyed said they would increase spending on AI and ML over the next two years, a 93% of respondents said that instead of using auto…

November 3, 2023
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