Jan 03, 2025Ravie LakshmananMachine Learning / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model's (LLM) safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful or malicious responses. The multi-turn (aka many-shot) attack strategy has been codenamed Bad Likert Judge by Palo Alto Networks Unit … [Read more...] about New AI Jailbreak Method ‘Bad Likert Judge’ Boosts Attack Success Rates by Over 60%
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Judge Rules No Jail Time for WannaCry ‘Killer’ Marcus Hutchins, a.k.a. MalwareTech
Marcus Hutchins, better known as MalwareTech, has been sentenced to "time served" and one year of supervised release for developing and selling the Kronos banking malware.Yes, Hutchins will not go to prison, United States District Judge J.P. Stadtmueller ruled today in Milwaukee County Court, after describing his good work as "too many positives on the other side of the … [Read more...] about Judge Rules No Jail Time for WannaCry ‘Killer’ Marcus Hutchins, a.k.a. MalwareTech
Judge Denies Samsung a Retrial of Apple's "Rubber-Banding" Patent
Judge Lucy Koh recently handed down a ruling denying Samsung’s motion to retry a high-profile patent case between the two tech giants based on changes to the scope of Apple’s so-called “rubber-banding” scrolling patent. The patent, which covers the rebounding effect seen when a user scrolls to an end of a list of an Apple device, was a key piece of Apple’s 2012 victory in the … [Read more...] about Judge Denies Samsung a Retrial of Apple's "Rubber-Banding" Patent