A £13k frontier-AI scan of UK government repos found 407 vulnerabilities

The UK government used AISI and NCSC tooling to scan public code repositories and found hundreds of issues, including critical weaknesses exposing services to auth bypass and data exposure

Just a truly unbelievable return on investment here. For £13k, British Government (with AISI and NCSC) used frontier AI to scan public code repositories across govt. 407 findings in total, “including critical weaknesses exposing services
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