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AI found widespread IoT flaws more quickly and cheaply than humans could

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Dive Brief:

  • AI dramatically sped up the process of finding vulnerabilities in embedded software that is widely used in critical infrastructure, the security firm Forescout said on Thursday.
  • A specialized AI harness helped researchers find 99 vulnerabilities in 90 hours, a workload that they estimated would have taken nine months without the new technology, according to Forescout’s report.
  • The research is the latest evidence that AI is revolutionizing the process of finding flaws in critical technology — for good and for ill.

Dive Insight:

Forescout researchers turned their AI harness loose on 10 popular TCP/IP stacks, seven from the company’s existing TCP/IP vulnerability research and three new ones.

The stacks — most of them open-source — included Contiki, used in low-power internet of things devices such as street lights; Ethernut, used in Ethernet-based smart devices; lwIP, a...

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