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Hi, robot: Half of all internet traffic now automated

Malwarebytes

If you sometimes feel that the internet isn’t the same vibrant place it used to be, you’re not alone. The rise in bots is down to generative artificial intelligence (AI), Imperva said. Bad bots comprised 37% of internet traffic in 2024, up from 32% the year prior. Bad bots do all kinds of unpleasant things.

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Political Disinformation and AI

Schneier on Security

Elections around the world are facing an evolving threat from foreign actors, one that involves artificial intelligence. Countries trying to influence each other’s elections entered a new era in 2016, when the Russians launched a series of social media disinformation campaigns targeting the US presidential election.

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AIs as Computer Hackers

Schneier on Security

If you’re into this sort of thing, it’s pretty much the most fun you can possibly have on the Internet without committing multiple felonies. In 2016, DARPA ran a similarly styled event for artificial intelligence (AI). In 2016, none of the Cyber Grand Challenge teams used modern machine learning techniques.

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AI and Political Lobbying

Schneier on Security

But for all the consternation over the potential for humans to be replaced by machines in formats like poetry and sitcom scripts, a far greater threat looms: artificial intelligence replacing humans in the democratic processes—not through voting, but through lobbying.

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Artificial Personas and Public Discourse

Schneier on Security

One of the biggest threats on the horizon: artificial personas are coming, and they're poised to take over political debate. The risk arises from two separate threads coming together: artificial intelligence-driven text generation and social media chatbots. It's writing news stories, particularly in sports and finance.

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The Only Thing Surprising About The Crippling Ransomware Attack On A Major US Fuel Pipeline Is That Anyone Is Surprised That The Attack Succeeded

Joseph Steinberg

In late 2016, hackers, perhaps acting on behalf of the Russian government, utilized multiple pieces of malware to both knock out power to large segments of Ukraine and to simultaneously disable the phone communications capabilities of the impacted power providers, thereby complicating recovery efforts. Nor were those isolated incidents.

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Facebook and Cambridge Analytica

Schneier on Security

Surveillance capitalism drives much of the internet. In 2016, the European Union passed the comprehensive General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR. And advances in both big data analysis and artificial intelligence will make tomorrow's applications far creepier than today's. This might change soon. He's right.