: Hackpocalypse deferred

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/28915273

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That marketing may have outstripped reality. Early reports from Mythos preview users including AWS and Mozilla indicate that while the model is very good and very fast at finding vulnerabilities, and requires less hands-on guidance from security engineers - making it a welcome time-saver for the human teams - it has yet to eclipse human security researchers.

“So far we’ve found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can’t,” Mozilla CTO Bobby Holley said, after revealing that Mythos found 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150. Then he added: “We also haven’t seen any bugs that couldn’t have been found by an elite human researcher.” In other words, it’s like adding an automated security researcher to your team. Not a zero-day machine that’s too dangerous for the world.

  • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    Their own demonstrator had to work with a downlevel firefox so it would still have vulnerabilities that were already fixed before they even started.

    Or as they put it, they turned Firefox 147 in an evaluation.

    They pitched it as “it is dangerous, it will escape confinement”, etc etc.

    I admit that I didn’t study their marketing materials, but that sounds kinda off. Maybe something got garbled?