r/technology • u/anonskeptic5 • 7h ago

Security US, allies warn of critical vulnerabilities in programming underlying 70% of the internet

https://www.politico.com/news/2026/10/21/php-cyber-vulnerability-openai-warning-01129058
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u/gobnwgo 6h ago

AI helped find. AI will also help exploit.

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u/Roc1817 6h ago

It’s the double edged sword that we all now have to face in cybersecurity. 

Using AI is going to be the only way to defend your systems from AI, you just can’t keep up without it, and our existing code has too many unknown vulnerabilities 

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u/JMEEKER86 4h ago

Yep, it's why everyone is racing out updates with thousands of fixes these days in the same time that they used to make a couple dozen. It's an arms race and not using AI is like bringing a knife to a nuke fight. Of course, the race is so fast that humans can't reliably keep up with the pace of reviewing changes either, so some of those changes break other things and perpetuates the need for more fast changes.

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u/speelmydrink 3h ago

Move fast and break shit is now mandatory.