AI Finds so Many Windows Flaws, Microsoft Can’t Keep up. Should You Worry?

Secure development can help turn the tables as AI alters cyber landscape

A top Microsoft executive said a shift toward memory safety and other preventative measures can limit the ability to exploit flawed software.

AI finds so many Windows flaws, Microsoft can’t keep up. Should you worry?

Be careful what you wish for. That’s what Microsoft found out recently when it discovered that AI — rather than making Windows more secure by helping the company close security holes — could help hackers find flaws faster than Microsoft can fix them. It’s put Microsoft in a serious bind. Should the company devote a potentially massive amount of resources to fix every AI-unearthed security issue as fast as it can? Or should it rush to close the m…

An AI tool found 84 flaws in 5G network software and 23 of them still have no fix

Researchers at Nanyang Technological University turned a set of AI agents loose on the software that runs 4G and 5G phone networks, and the agents came back with 84 security flaws nobody had reported before. Developers have confirmed 83 of them, and 81 now carry CVE numbers. The most serious one lets an attacker take over a subscriber’s data session, so the network delivers that subscriber’s traffic to the attacker instead of to the internet. … …