The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is a proposed open standard that provides a two-way connection for AI-LLM applications to interact directly with external data sources. It is developed by Anthropic and aims to simplify AI integrations by reducing the need for custom code for each new system.

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In Part 2, we’re diving headfirst into one of the most critical attack surfaces in the LLM ecosystem - Prompt Injection: The AI version of talking your way past the bouncer.

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In my journey to explore how I can use artificial intelligence to assist in penetration testing, I experimented with a security-focused chat bot created by Jason Haddix called Arcanum Cyber Security Bot (available on https://chatgpt.com/gpts). Jason engineered this bot to leverage up-to-date technical information related to application security and penetration testing.

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A common use case for LLMs is rapid software development. One of the first ways I used AI in my penetration testing methodology was for payload generation.

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Burpference is a Burp Suite plugin that takes requests and responses to and from in-scope web applications and sends them off to an LLM for inference. In the context of artificial intelligence, inference is taking a trained model, providing it with new information, and asking it to analyze this new information based on its training.

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You may have read some of our previous blog posts on Artificial Intelligence (AI). We discussed things like using PyRIT to help automate attacks. We also covered the dangers of […]

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RAG connects pre-trained LLMs with current data sources. Moreover, a RAG system can use many data sources.

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In this video, John Strand discusses the complexities and challenges of penetration testing, emphasizing that it goes beyond just finding and exploiting vulnerabilities.

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This blog post is aimed at the intermediate level learner in the fields of data science and artificial intelligence. If you would like to read up on some fundamentals, here […]

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Many people have heard of ChatGPT, Gemini, Bart, Claude, Llama, or other artificial intelligence (AI) assistants at this point. These are all implementations of what are known as large language […]

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| Bronwen Aker // Sr. Technical Editor, M.S. Cybersecurity, GSEC, GCIH, GCFE Go online these days and you will see tons of articles, posts, Tweets, TikToks, and videos about how […]

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