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Highlights
EY: 4T SQL database online.Aardvark an agentic security researcher OpenAI.Atlas’s Omnibox opens up new privacy and security risks.OpenAI releases “safeguard” models preview.False reports of Gmail breach spread.
Deep Dive
EY: 4T SQL database online TechRadar
Exposed to the public internet.
Contain sensitive info: API keys, session tokens, user credentials.
Cached authentication tokens, service account password.
No client information, personal data or confidential EY has been impacted.
Took a week to fully remediate the issue.
Aardvark an agentic security researcher OpenAI
Autonomous agent to discover and fix security vulnerabilities.
Analyze full repo to produce threat model.
Reflects its understanding of the project’s security objective and design.
Inspect commit level changes against the entire repo.
Integrate with OpenAI codex to fix vulnerabilities.
Private Beta is Open: Apply here
Atlas’s Omnibox: new privacy and security risks Malwarebytes
Atlas: ChatGPT based AI browser.
Omnibox: search and prompt bar.
Attacker pastes crafted link.
Omnibox input treated as prompt.
Atlas trusts input, skips checks,
Many safety checks bypassed.
Injected instructions gain elevated trust.
OpenAI “safeguard” models Artificial Intelligence - news
Empowers developers with safety controls.
Models: 120B and 20B versions.
Licensed under Apache 2.0.
Developers define custom safety policies.
Model interprets rules at inference.
Enables policy-based content classification.
Available soon on Hugging Face.
Gmail Breach Fake News TheRegisters
False reports of Gmail breach spread.
Claimed 183M accounts compromised.
Google confirms no new intrusion.
Data came from old stolen credentials.
Originated via Have I Been Pwned update.
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