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6 days ago | itbrew.com | Brianna Monsanto

It’s a bustling time to be in the cybersecurity industry as mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity continues to heat up. Last month, Google turned heads when it announced its acquisition of cybersecurity start-up Wiz for a whopping $32 billion, one of its largest purchases to date. But the tech giant’s steep deal was just one of many purchases made last quarter.

6 days ago | itbrew.com | Brianna Monsanto

When in doubt, remain silent…unless you are an LLM, in which case, make something up!Researchers from the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) found that the above scenario is actually a somewhat frequent occurrence when developers use LLMs to generate code in a phenomenon known as package hallucinations, which occurs when models recommend a third-party software that is nonexistent.

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Brianna Monsanto

A bill that intends to decrease cyber threats against the country’s critical infrastructure is getting a second chance. On April 8, House Homeland Security Committee Republicans announced that Rep. Andy Ogles and Chairman Mark E. Green reintroduced the Strengthening Cyber Resilience Against State-Sponsored Threats Act.

1 week ago | itbrew.com | Billy Hurley

Dan Shiebler, Abnormal Security’s head of machine learning, thinks of the approach to coding as “based on the inputs and outputs, rather than how things will work.”Janet Worthington, senior analyst for security and risk at Forrester, sees it as a way to iteratively prompt a GenAI editor “so you don’t have to have any understanding of what the underlying code is.”For Andrej Karpathy, former director of AI at Tesla, it’s……vibes, man.

2 weeks ago | itbrew.com | Billy Hurley

Google recently announced an easier way for Gmail users to send encrypted messages to any email platform—a capability the company hopes will reduce IT pros’ pains when having to deploy the protection mechanism. “We’ve heard from businesses all over the place, across the board: ‘This is too hard for us. It’s not automatic. It’s not as easy as just opening a message and sending it out.’ And they’re frustrated by that,” Julien Duplant, security product manager for Gmail, told IT Brew.