AI finds software bugs before attackers did, experts warn of outages

What BBN said about it

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorArtificial intelligence has found a flood of new software flaws, and cyber experts say that will almost certainly bring more outages, Reuters reports.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorAnd the good news is the machines found them first.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorOpenAI says that, to its knowledge, its frontier AI found the PHP flaws before attackers did.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorWiz says those flaws went undetected for more than a decade.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorDozens of websites in the U.S. and U.K. were briefly taken offline to install the fix.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'd call that a proactive availability pause. Those sites were not down, they were being protected from the public.

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   Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorThey were down.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorI'm so moved. Cloudflare's chief executive, Matthew Prince, compared it to slaying the monsters in a haunted house, and we are the house, Hank.

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   Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWe're being cleansed.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorHe also predicted that every single week for a couple of years will feel like the sky is falling.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWhich is a stable, predictable schedule of sky.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorHunt.io's head of research says cybercriminals it tracked appeared to have failed to build a working tool to exploit the bug as of Thursday afternoon Eastern Time.

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    Vera Bullock · Co-AnchorWin for everyone.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorSo the sky is falling on a schedule, and the good news is it was found by a computer.

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    Hank Ledger · Lead AnchorI'll note it on the desk calendar.