Emerging Tech Security
AI security, cyber-kinetic security, 5G and mIoT security, blockchain and crypto security, and emerging technology risk domains adjacent to quantum.
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AI Security
The Unseen Dangers of GAN Poisoning in AI
GAN Poisoning is a unique form of adversarial attack aimed at manipulating Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) during their training phase; unlike traditional cybersecurity threats like data poisoning or adversarial input attacks, which either corrupt training data or trick already-trained models,…
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AI Security
“Magical” Emergent Behaviours in AI: A Security Perspective
Emergent behaviours in AI have left both researchers and practitioners scratching their heads. These are the unexpected quirks and functionalities that pop up in complex AI systems, not because they were explicitly trained to exhibit them, but due to the…
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5G Security
Can we afford to keep ignoring Open RAN security?
I’m skeptical of ‘futurists’. Work closely enough with the development of technology solutions and you’ll know that the only certain thing about the future is that it’s constantly changing. For example, few ‘futurists’ predicted the Covid-19 outbreak that brought the…
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Crypto Security
How Blockchain Security Differs From Traditional Cybersecurity – 3 – User Security
This article is the third in a four-part series exploring the differences between traditional IT security and blockchain security. Check out the first two articles in the series exploring the differences for node operators and application developers. This article explores…
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Crypto Security
How Blockchain Security Differs From Traditional Cybersecurity – 2 – Smart Contract Developers
This article is the second in a four-part series discussing the differences between traditional IT security / cybersecurity and blockchain security. Check out the first article in the series discussing the differences for node operators. This article focuses on the…
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AI Security
How Dynamic Data Masking Reinforces Machine Learning Security
Data masking, also known as data obfuscation or data anonymization, serves as a crucial technique for ensuring data confidentiality and integrity, particularly in non-production environments like development, testing, and analytics. It operates by replacing actual sensitive data with a sanitized…
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AI Security
How Label-Flipping Attacks Mislead AI Systems
Label-flipping attacks refer to a class of adversarial attacks that specifically target the labeled data used to train supervised machine learning models. In a typical label-flipping attack, the attacker changes the labels associated with the training data points, essentially turning…
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Crypto Security
Proof of Reserve vs. Proof of Liability vs. Proof of Solvency
Recent events like the FTX meltdown have sparked interest and conversations about how the incident could have been prevented. In the case of FTX, the primary problem was that the platform did not hold sufficient assets to cover its user…
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Crypto Security
How Blockchain Security Differs From Traditional Cybersecurity – 1 – Node Operators
Blockchain is a rapidly-evolving technology with a great deal of interest and investment. Decentralized Finance (DeFi), in particular, has a great deal of money invested in it as well as a growing number of high-profile and expensive hacks. Beyond DeFi,…
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Crypto Security
The 12 Biggest Hacking Incidents in the History of Crypto
The most comprehensive ranked list of the biggest crypto hacks in history (Up until November 1, 2022. I suspect a larger one is just behind the corner) It wasn’t easy digging through the entire history of cybercrime involving cryptocurrencies, but…
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AI Security
Backdoor Attacks in Machine Learning Models
Backdoor attacks in the context of Machine Learning (ML) refer to the deliberate manipulation of a model's training data or its algorithmic logic to implant a hidden vulnerability, often referred to as a "trigger." Unlike typical vulnerabilities that are discovered…
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Crypto Security
How the Big Binance Bridge Hack Will Change the way People View Web3
$566M worth of BNB was stolen from Binance’s cross-chain bridge BSC Token Hub, but how they responded to the hack will be the most memorable part. Decentralization is a hot button topic in web3, and Binance is (at the time…
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Crypto Security
How a $1B Flash Loan Led to the $182M Beanstalk Farms Exploit
Understanding how flash loans and governance work in DeFi to demystify the Beanstalk Farms Hack The only way to understand how the Beanstalk Farms decentralized credit-based stablecoin protocol exploit happened is to first understand flash loans, which are a little…
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Crypto Security
The Top 4 Supply Chain Security Risks of Blockchain Smart Contracts
Code reuse is considered best practice in software engineering. Reusing high-quality, secure code can speed development processes and often results in higher-quality code than software developed entirely from scratch. Additionally, the reuse of high-quality, audited libraries reduces security risks by…
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Crypto Security
How the Nomad Bridge Hack can Help Us Explore the Potential Downsides of Decentralization
One attacker and hundreds of copycats looted the Nomad bridge for over $190 million; few did the right thing. Decentralization is a hot-button topic in 2022. To some, it seems like the solution to a variety of issues plaguing the…
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