The Intersection of Encryption and AI

Collection of posts highlighting urgent security trends and incidents: Microsoft has publicly threatened a researcher publishing Windows exploits (including a BitLocker-bypassing zero-day); a CISA contractor accidentally exposed highly privileged AWS GovCloud credentials on GitHub; researchers used Anthropic’s Mythos AI to find and weaponize a macOS kernel memory-corruption bug; and a policy piece warns that frontier AI accelerates vulnerability discovery, necessitating coordinated, large-scale disclosure and remediation. Other items include Schneier’s reflections on cryptography’s limits, FBI