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Security researchers

Security researchers are professionals who identify and analyze vulnerabilities in computer systems and software to improve security and prevent cyberattacks.

Why it’s in the news: They are in the news due to legal risks from outdated cybercrime laws and conflicts with AI developers over restrictive safety guardrails that hinder their research.

Latest on Security researchers

  • Outdated Cybercrime Laws Put Security Researchers at Risk
  • Security researchers scanned the Polish web and found courts, hospitals, and airports at risk of hacks
  • How AI guardrails are impeding the work of offensive cybersecurity researchers
  • Security researchers tricked LLMs into giving them cocaine recipes by abusing role models for prompt injection
  • Cybersecurity researchers aren’t happy about the guardrails on Anthropic’s Fable
  • Security researchers tricked Apple Intelligence into cursing at users. It could have been a lot worse
  • legitimate researchers get deprioritized because the volume of garbage is so high that even good submissions drown in the queue
  • Security researchers say that Kimi K3
  • Apple has limited the number of security vulnerabilities that researchers can submit through its bug bounty program
  • Apple's bug bounty program now caps vulnerability submissions
  • AI-assisted vulnerability discovery works — it finds real flaws at machine speed
  • Security researchers are flooding the system because AI-assisted vulnerability discovery works

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