Cloudflare and Perplexity slug it out over alleged AI bot block evasion

Is it deceptive, standards-violating content scraping or a security and internet infrastructure company on a crusade against artificial intelligence startups?  That question has arisen after Cloudflare published a very detailed report alleging that Perplexity AI engages in underhanded behaviour to content on sites, sparking a public row between the two companies. Perplexity AI has struck back against the […]

AI coding threatens to make common security flaw more prevalent

The use of artificial intelligence for development is threatening to make a specific type of web application flaw, insecure direct object references (IDORs), far more common, security researchers say. IDORs are a type of vulnerability which is essentially broken access controls in web applications. Exploiting IDORs is easy, requiring no special skills, privileged access or particular […]

Google publishes 20 new vulnerabilities found by its Big Sleep AI

Google’s Gemini artificial intelligence-powered Big Sleep system has found further vulnerabilities in popular software, as part of the company’s push towards automated security research. Vice president of security Heather Adkins outlined a batch of 20 vulnerabilities, all rated as priority two (P2) for fixing urgency, and with low, medium and high impact levels if successfully […]