When Andrew asked his AI personal assistant to book him a spot in a gym class, he had no idea he would accidentally initiate an autonomous cyber attack.
It’s exploiting a vulnerability (unsecured API) without permission of the gym running the software, to the detriment of whoever arrives and finds their reservation cancelled and probably also of the gym who now (unjustly) has to deal with the (justly) upset customer.
The gym’s software should be secured better, but that doesn’t make it less of a hack.
It’s exploiting a vulnerability (unsecured API) without permission of the gym running the software, to the detriment of whoever arrives and finds their reservation cancelled and probably also of the gym who now (unjustly) has to deal with the (justly) upset customer.
The gym’s software should be secured better, but that doesn’t make it less of a hack.