🎩 Top 5 Security and AI Reads - Week #10

Jailbreak paper usefulness, PLC binary analysis, black-box LLM origin identification, microcode vulnerability exploration, safety judge evaluation weaknesses

Welcome to the tenth installment of the Stats and Bytes Top 5 Security and AI Reads weekly newsletter. We're kicking off with a thoughtful blog post on the utility of jailbreak research papers and why new vulnerability classes should be the focus, followed by work on a PLC binary dataset to support binary analysis for industrial control systems. We'll then examine a fascinating method for identifying unauthorised derivative models, explore the intricate world of microcode vulnerabilities in AMD processors, and conclude with a critical analysis of LLM safety judges that reveals weaknesses in their evaluation methodologies.

A cyberpunk laboratory with industrial control systems and neural network visualizations on holographic displays, glitching binary code raining down walls, zen garden with circuit patterns in the sand, a hooded figure examining microchips with magnifying glasses, quantum particle effects, dramatic lighting with neon blue and red accents, introspective mood, hyperdet…