AI Patching Shortcomings - Should You Trust AI-Generated Code?
AI-generated code is flooding the industry, but researchers reveal that almost half of it contains critical vulnerabilities. This week, we unpack what happens when the race for automation outpaces security best practices. • A possible means for preventing prompt injection abuse. • Clear evidence of Chinese-made router malicious intent. • A cool before and after SpinRite graph of SSD performance. • How about adding unpredictable hashes to role tags? • What did Claude make of last week's podcast? • Could much better harnesses prevent prompt injection? • A listener wants us to stop saying AI "thinks". • AI designers ignore well-understood security concepts. • Can we explain LLM AI using conventional computer terms? • A listener strongly dislikes the term "rotating credentials". • The land of AI is being filled with "meat proxies". • Researchers exhaustively test frontier model vulnerability remediation. (hint: It does not go well.) Show Notes - https://www.grc.com/sn/SN-1094-Notes.pdf Hosts: Steve Gibson and Leo Laporte Security Now episode 1094 More Info: https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/1094 Sponsors: • http://bitwarden.com/twit • http://outsystems.com/twit • http://threatlocker.com/twit • http://doppel.com Download or subscribe to Security Now at https://twit.tv/shows/security-now You can submit a question to Security Now at the GRC Feedback Page. For 16kbps versions, transcripts, and notes (including fixes), visit Steve's site: https://grc.com/ also the home of the best disk maintenance and recovery utility ever written Spinrite 6. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free audio and video feeds, a members-only Discord, and exclusive content. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Products we recommend: https://www.amazon.com/shop/twitnetcastnetwork TWiT may earn commissions on certain products. Follow us: Website: https://twit.tv/ Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/twit.tv Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@TWiT Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TWiTNetwork Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/twit.tv/ X (Twitter): https://x.com/TWiT TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@twittok Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/thisweekintech/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/twit-llc About us: TWiT.tv is a technology podcasting network located in the San Francisco Bay Area with the #1 ranked technology podcast This Week in Tech hosted by Leo Laporte. Every week we produce dozens of hours of content on a variety of programs including Tech News Weekly, MacBreak Weekly, Windows Weekly, Security Now, Intelligent Machines, and more.