In the largest public red-teaming exercise ever, 3,000 hackers will attempt to break into leading generative AI models from firms like OpenAI and Anthropic over the next four days at DEF CON. cyberscoop.com/def-con-hacker…

The cyberattack targeting Viasat satellite internet modems on the eve of the Ukraine invasion was more complex than initially understood. A second, sophisticated and newly revealed attack sought to keep disabled modems offline. cyberscoop.com/viasat-ka-sat-…

My interview from Black Hat with former National Cyber Director Chris Inglis about the 2024 election, Ukraine, the recent Microsoft hack and what was left out of the national cyber strategy. cyberscoop.com/radio/national…

My (delayed by COVID 😑) piece looking at the DEF CON AI red teaming exercise, the possibility of adversarial tests for AI and the huge challenge facing security researchers trying to find flaws in large language models. cyberscoop.com/def-con-ai-hac…

If red-teaming is going to be useful for finding and fixing #AI flaws, last weekend’s exercise at the AI Village @ DEF CON — believed to be the largest-ever public red-teaming exercise — was one of its first major test cases, reports Elias Groll. #DEFCON31 scoopmedia.co/3KNOXHw

A great Tonya Riley joint on the staggering mental health crisis facing the cybersecurity industry: cyberscoop.com/cyber-professi…

Microsoft thinks it knows how Chinese hackers stole a highly sensitive signing key — by rifling through the proverbial garbage can of a crash dump file: cyberscoop.com/microsoft-chin…

Perhaps the best data yet on Elon's effect on conflict Twitter: Center for an Informed Public finds that 7 OSINT posters accumulated 1.6 billion views on content related to Israel Gaza conflict in first three days, compared to 112 million views for 6 leading news accounts. cip.uw.edu/2023/10/20/new…

12/ Sounds like Joe Biden 's The White House wanted to make sure the message of today's #spywaresanctions was understood by the industry. So they spelled it out. Chose to reform & stop fueling proliferation. Or expect pain. Elias Groll cyberscoop.com/predator-intel…

Byron's new book freaked me out. Anyone curious about how data is collected, bundled, sold and analyzed should read it.

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Blast radius of Midnight Blizzard breach of Microsoft continues to widen. Federal government now affected. Emergency directive on the issue coming. Our exclusive with colleagues: reb heilweil Tim Starks & AJ Vicens | @ajvicens.bsky.social cyberscoop.com/federal-govern…

Remarkable to see the USG treat Microsoft as a national champion and grease the wheels of this deal to address national security concerns related to an Emirati AI firm, cutting out China in the process. nytimes.com/2024/04/16/tec…

US tax return is a known unknown.

This was a great conversation with joe sullivan. If you're interested in what it's like to be in the trenches as a modern security exec, this is the one.

This was a lot of fun, I always relish the chance to talk to Elias Groll!

Allan can't drone strike ransomware operators so he had to settle for talking to me.

Low key huge development. Keeps the Trump assassination from turning into the latest round of the encryption panic. Also speaks to the FBI (and its contractors) getting better at breaking endpoints.

A bit of personal news: Excited to share that I'm going back to school this fall for a masters degree in public policy at Oxford's Blavatnik School of Government. Looking forward to deepening my work on security and technology issues and working with the good folks at Oxford Martin AI Governance Initiative.