What are some prominent stories about AI and cyber security you've seen this year? Are they just improvements upon old techniques or are they novel?
My reading has found things like generic phishing becoming more like spearfishing and blue teams finding preexisting problems using AI. Have there been any zero days? Do you think quantum computing will have a more significant impact on security than AI? Relatively speaking, how significant a role does good personal security practices like password management play relative to these two?
Disclaimer: my opinion
AI seems like a bit of a nothing burger in terms of interesting stories. We have stories, sure, but it's still just generative trained things.
The biggest quantum computing story I saw was about iMessage implementing it, which was also a gateway to discovering Signal already had.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37571919
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39453660
(Signal's response to iMessage)
https://mastodon.world/@Mer__edith/111975543824684264
That's mostly what I thought. The attack surface is still mostly the device between the monitor and the chair
I guess the recent TIME article, with US government calling AI existential threat would have to be up there. Not that it is cyber related, but I guess soon we can just have the red AI attack the blue AI while we all retire (to bomb shelters)