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Three words to send a chill down your spine: Snowflake. Intrusion. Alert

(2024/07/13)


Kettle For this week's Kettle episode, in which our journos as usual get together for an end-of-week chat about the news, it's security, security, security.

From more than [1]100 million people hit by the staggering AT&T Snowflake storage account intrusion, to the latest marketing claims of AI coming to save our systems from attacks, we've packed a decent amount into 15 minutes – and you can replay our discussion below.

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On this week's show we have Tobias Mann, Brandon Vigliarolo, The Register 's cybersecurity editor Jessica Lyons, and your host Iain Thomson. The [4]Kettle series producer is Nicole Hemsoth Prickett.

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can AI save us from the scourge of malware?

cyberdemon

More like: Can AI automate the hell out of inventing, deploying and exploiting malware at a scale unthinkable to humanity? Yes.

The basic problem is: "AI works 20% of the time."

For a defender, that's hopelessly useless. For an attacker, that's incredibly useful, because even if the true figure was 2%, they can scattergun thousands/millions of targets with zero effort

Death is nature's way of saying `Howdy'.