From The Register, May 2:
Britain's cyber agency says the bill for years of technical shortcuts is coming due, and it's arriving all at once
Britain's cyber agency is warning that AI-fuelled bug hunting is about to flush out years of buried flaws, leaving defenders scrambling to keep up.
In a blog post on Friday, Ollie Whitehouse, CTO of the UK's National Cyber Security Center, said organizations should brace for a looming "patch wave," driven by a backlog of weaknesses now being exposed faster than many teams can realistically fix them.
"All organizations have 'technical debt'; a backlog of technical issues – that is both expensive and time-consuming – as a result of prioritising short-term gains over building resilient products," Whitehouse wrote.
"Artificial Intelligence, when used by sufficiently-skilled and knowledgeable individuals, is showing the ability to exploit this technical debt at scale and at pace across the technology ecosystem," he added. The result, according to NCSC, is likely to be a "forced correction" as those weaknesses are uncovered and addressed in bulk....
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