Amazon recently lost control of IP addresses it uses to host cloud services and took more than three hours to regain control, a lapse that allowed hackers to steal $235,000 in cryptocurrency from users of one of the affected customers, an analysis shows. The hackers seized control of roughly 256 […]
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Artist receives first known US copyright registration for generative AI art
Enlarge / An excerpt from the AI-assisted comic book Zarya of the Dawn, which received a US copyright registration. In what might be a first, a New York-based artist named Kris Kashtanova has received US copyright registration on their graphic novel that features AI-generated artwork, according to their Instagram feed […]
Fearing copyright issues, Getty Images bans AI-generated artwork
Enlarge / A selection of Stable Diffusion images with a strikeout through them. Ars Technica Getty Images has banned the sale of AI generative artwork created using image synthesis models such as Stable Diffusion, DALL-E 2, and Midjourney through its service, The Verge reports. To clarify the new policy, The […]
$35M fine for Morgan Stanley after unencrypted, unwiped hard drives are auctioned
Getty Images Morgan Stanley on Tuesday agreed to pay the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) a $35 million penalty for data security lapses that included unencrypted hard drives from decommissioned data centers being resold on auction sites without first being wiped. The SEC action said that the improper disposal of […]
AI software helps bust image fraud in academic papers
Enlarge / Colorized photo image of a Western blot test result. Scientific publishers such as the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) and Taylor & Francis have begun attempting to detect fraud in academic paper submissions with an AI image-checking program called Proofig, reports The Register. Proofig, a product of […]
Uber was breached to its core, purportedly by an 18-year-old. Here’s what’s known
Enlarge / The Uber ride-sharing app is seen on a mobile phone. Uber employees on Thursday discovered that huge swaths of their internal network had been accessed by someone who announced the feat on the company Slack channel. The intruder, who sent screenshots documenting the breach to The New York […]
Twitter pranksters derail GPT-3 bot with newly discovered “prompt injection” hack
Enlarge / A tin toy robot lying on its side. On Thursday, a few Twitter users discovered how to hijack an automated tweet bot, dedicated to remote jobs, running on the GPT-3 language model by OpenAI. Using a newly discovered technique called a “prompt injection attack,” they redirected the bot […]
Artists begin selling AI-generated artwork on stock photography websites
Enlarge / A selection of AI-generated artwork that can be licensed through Shutterstock. Shutterstock.com Seeking ways to “monetize” AI-generated art, some artists have already begun submitting their AI-generated pieces to stock photography websites like Shutterstock. Searches for “AI generated” or “Midjourney” (a popular image synthesis service) produce thousands of results […]
Trojanized versions of PuTTY utility being used to spread backdoor
Researchers believe hackers with connections to the North Korean government have been pushing a Trojanized version of the PuTTY networking utility in an attempt to backdoor the network of organizations they want to spy on. Researchers from security firm Mandiant said on Thursday that at least one customer it serves […]
Iranians hacked US companies, sent ransom demands to printers, indictment says
Getty Images | Bill Hinton Three Iranian nationals charged with hacking into US-based computer networks sent ransom demands to the printers of at least some of their victims, according to an indictment unsealed today. The ransom demands allegedly sought payments in exchange for BitLocker decryption keys that the victims could […]