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Anthropic Mythos shaping up as nothingburger (www.theregister.com)
submitted 3 days ago by HaraldvonBlauzahn@feddit.org to c/technology@lemmy.world
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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/28915273

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That marketing may have outstripped reality. Early reports from Mythos preview users including AWS and Mozilla indicate that while the model is very good and very fast at finding vulnerabilities, and requires less hands-on guidance from security engineers - making it a welcome time-saver for the human teams - it has yet to eclipse human security researchers.

"So far we've found no category or complexity of vulnerability that humans can find that this model can't," Mozilla CTO Bobby Holley said, after revealing that Mythos found 271 vulnerabilities in Firefox 150. Then he added: "We also haven't seen any bugs that couldn't have been found by an elite human researcher." In other words, it's like adding an automated security researcher to your team. Not a zero-day machine that's too dangerous for the world.

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[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

This is why CVE scoring is used for severity. A vuln that doesn't really give you anything, that you can only exploit locally, when already having elevated privileges? That's going to be low priority for a fix.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

A vuln that doesn’t really give you anything, that you can only exploit locally, when already having elevated privileges? That’s going to be low priority for a fix.

And, yet, here I am - rebuilding a new interim image for our security team to scan so they can generate a spreadsheet with hundreds of lines of "items of concern" which are above our "threshold of concern" and most of them are being dismissed because of those justifications you just gave: local exploit only, etc. but I have to read every one, tease out the "local exploit only" language, quote it for the justification, over and over and over every few months.

Corporate anxiety is limitless.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

You're allowed to do that? Must be nice. We recently got told that you get one six-month justification, after that it must be remediated.

[–] MangoCats@feddit.it 1 points 2 days ago

These are vulnerabilities for local access on a console which is operated in kiosk mode - users never have command line access, and the consoles themselves are rarely if ever network connected.