16 May 2024
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 5/16/2024

MIT students stole $25M in seconds by exploiting ETH blockchain bug, DOJ says  Within approximately 12 seconds, two highly educated brothers allegedly stole $25 million by tampering with the ethereum blockchain in a never-before-seen cryptocurrency scheme, according to an indictment that the US Department of Justice unsealed Wednesday. In a DOJ press release, US Attorney Damian Williams said the scheme was so sophisticated that it "calls the very integrity of the blockchain into question." "The brothers, who studied computer science and math…
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27 Jul 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 07/27/2023

This MIT team is fighting malicious AI image manipulation a few pixels at a time  As AI image creation and editing becomes more prevalent, a new digital privacy concern has arisen -- the unauthorized AI editing of someone's artwork or picture. To date, there's nothing to stop someone from taking a picture online, uploading it to an AI program, and manipulating it for all sorts of purposes. But a new technique from a team at MIT could change that. Simply called…
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15 Jul 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 7/15/2020

MIT creates a soft-fingered robotic gripper than could eventually tie knots and sew stitches MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL) has shared the results of a new project in which it built a two-fingered robotic gripper, which has soft pads for dedicated and fine manipulation of objects like cables, sheets and more. The robot’s design is based on how humans use their fingers to do things like untangle wires and tie knots. To…
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10 Apr 2020
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 4/10/2020

MIT develops privacy-preserving COVID-19 contact tracing inspired by Apple’s ‘Find My’ feature One of the efforts that’s been proposed to contain the spread of COVID-19 is a contact trace and track program, that would allow health officials to keep better tabs on individuals who have been infected, and alert them to potential spread. Contract tracing has already seemingly proven effective in some parts of the world that have managed to curb the coronavirus spread, but…
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