Anthropic’s agentic tool Claude Code has been an enormous hit with some software developers and hobbyists, and now the company is bringing that modality to more general office work with a new feature ...

On January 25 th 2003, the Slammer worm exploited a vulnerability in SQL Server 2000, to execute a buffer overflow attack, affecting customers of Microsoft’s relational database management system.

The best defense against prompt injection and other AI attacks is to do some basic engineering, test more, and not rely on AI to protect you. If you want to know what is actually happening in ...

Space and time aren’t just woven into the background fabric of the universe. To theoretical computer scientists, time and space (also known as memory) are the two fundamental resources of computation.

Prompt injection vulnerabilities may never be fully mitigated as a category and network defenders should instead focus on ways to reduce their impact, government security experts have warned. Then ...

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has highlighted a potentially dangerous misunderstanding surrounding emergent prompt injection attacks against generative artificial intelligence (GenAI) ...

Dr. Shaw and Dr. Hilton teach software engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. For decades, computer science students have been taught a central skill: using computers to solve problems. In ...

SAP has released its November security updates that address multiple security vulnerabilities, including a maximum severity flaw in the non-GUI variant of the SQL Anywhere Monitor and a critical code ...

The oldest and best-known preprint repository, arXiv, has announced that it will no longer accept review or position papers in computer science. The website will make exceptions only for papers that ...

A prominent computer science professor at one of the world’s most prestigious universities says his graduates are struggling to find work — a far cry from just four years ago when they had their pick ...

Some of Julie York’s high school computer science students are worried about what generative artificial intelligence will mean for future careers in the tech industry. If generative AI can code, then ...

RUNNING DRY: When desalination plants remove salt from water, they're left with concentrated brine that needs to go somewhere. Deep well injection pushes this waste up to a mile underground using high ...