AI × Cybersecurity: The Crossover (Cross-Curricular)
Where machine learning meets hacking and defence: AI-powered phishing, deepfake fraud, adversarial attacks, prompt injection, AI-driven threat detection and the ethics and law around it all.
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Lesson 1
Lesson 1 — Why AI and Cybersecurity Collide
AI is now both the sharpest weapon attackers hold and the fastest defence teams deploy. Map the modern battlefield.
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Lesson 2
Lesson 2 — AI-Powered Phishing and Deepfake Fraud
Generated text, cloned voices and video deepfakes have broken the old 'spot the spelling mistake' advice. Learn what still works.
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Lesson 3
Lesson 3 — Attacking the Model Itself
Data poisoning, adversarial examples, model theft and evasion — how you hack an AI rather than a server.
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Lesson 4
Lesson 4 — Prompt Injection and Securing LLM Apps
When a chatbot reads untrusted text, that text can give it orders. Learn direct and indirect prompt injection — and how to contain it.
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Lesson 5
Lesson 5 — AI on the Defence: Inside a Modern SOC
Triage 10,000 alerts with a model, understand false positives, and learn why the human analyst never disappears.
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Lesson 6
Lesson 6 — Ethics, Law and the AI Arms Race
Bias in security AI, surveillance limits, GDPR and the AI Act, and where the line sits between research and crime.