machinelearning
The Role of AI and Machine Learning in Strengthening Cloud Security
Cloud computing has become essential for modern business operations, offering flexibility, scalability, and accessibility for data storage, processing, and application deployment. However, the convenience of the cloud also raises security concerns. As ...
Adversarial Machine Learning and the CFAA
I just co-authored a paper on the legal risks of doing machine learning research, given the current state of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act: Abstract: Adversarial Machine Learning is booming with ...
Identifying a Person Based on a Photo, LinkedIn and Etsy Profiles, and Other Internet Bread Crumbs
Interesting story of how the police can identify someone by following the evidence chain from website to website. According to filings in Blumenthal's case, FBI agents had little more to go on ...
Facebook Announces Messenger Security Features that Don’t Compromise Privacy
Note that this is "announced," so we don't know when it's actually going to be implemented. Facebook today announced new features for Messenger that will alert you when messages appear to come ...
Fooling NLP Systems Through Word Swapping
MIT researchers have built a system that fools natural-language processing systems by swapping words with synonyms: The software, developed by a team at MIT, looks for the words in a sentence that ...
Vulnerability Finding Using Machine Learning
Microsoft is training a machine-learning system to find software bugs: At Microsoft, 47,000 developers generate nearly 30 thousand bugs a month. These items get stored across over 100 AzureDevOps and GitHub repositories ...
Deep Learning to Find Malicious Email Attachments
Google presented its system of using deep-learning techniques to identify malicious email attachments: At the RSA security conference in San Francisco on Tuesday, Google's security and anti-abuse research lead Elie Bursztein will ...
Manipulating Machine Learning Systems by Manipulating Training Data
Interesting research: "TrojDRL: Trojan Attacks on Deep Reinforcement Learning Agents": Abstract:: Recent work has identified that classification models implemented as neural networks are vulnerable to data-poisoning and Trojan attacks at training time ...
Using Machine Learning to Detect IP Hijacking
This is interesting research: In a BGP hijack, a malicious actor convinces nearby networks that the best path to reach a specific IP address is through their network. That's unfortunately not very ...
Data, Surveillance, and the AI Arms Race
According to foreign policy experts and the defense establishment, the United States is caught in an artificial intelligence arms race with China -- one with serious implications for national security. The conventional ...
