Tag: 2024
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The Register: ‘That’s not a bug, it’s a feature’ takes on a darker tone when malware’s involved
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/firmware_malware_opinion/ Source: The Register Title: ‘That’s not a bug, it’s a feature’ takes on a darker tone when malware’s involved Feedly Summary: Mummy, where do zero days come from? Opinion One of the charms of coding is that malice can be indistinguishable from incompetence. Last week’s Who, Me? story about financial transfer test…
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Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: From gen AI to threat intelligence: 2024 in review
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-from-gen-AI-to-threat-intelligence-2024-in-review/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: From gen AI to threat intelligence: 2024 in review Feedly Summary: Welcome to the second Cloud CISO Perspectives for December 2024. To close out the year, I’m sharing the top Google Cloud security updates in 2024 that attracted the most interest from the security community.…
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Hacker News: Co-Adapting Human Interfaces and LMs
Source URL: https://jessylin.com/2024/11/12/co-adapting-human-interfaces/ Source: Hacker News Title: Co-Adapting Human Interfaces and LMs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the adaptive relationship between language models (LMs) and the digital environments they interact with, highlighting a shift in how systems are designed to cater to LMs as users. It emphasizes both…
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Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog
Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/12/23/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2021-44207 Acclaim Systems USAHERDS Use of Hard-Coded Credentials Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jack Clark
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/23/jack-clark/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jack Clark Feedly Summary: There’s been a lot of strange reporting recently about how ‘scaling is hitting a wall’ – in a very narrow sense this is true in that larger models were getting less score improvement on challenging benchmarks than their predecessors, but in a…
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New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs
Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/12/23/science/ai-hallucinations-science.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: How Hallucinatory A.I. Helps Science Dream Up Big Breakthroughs Feedly Summary: Hallucinations, a bane of popular A.I. programs, turn out to be a boon for venturesome scientists eager to push back the frontiers of human knowledge. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…
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The Cloudflare Blog: Grinch Bots strike again: defending your holidays from cyber threats
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/grinch-bot-2024/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Grinch Bots strike again: defending your holidays from cyber threats Feedly Summary: Cloudflare observed a 4x increase in bot-related traffic on Black Friday in 2024. 29% of all traffic on our network on Black Friday was Grinch Bots wreaking holiday havoc. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:**…
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The Register: Suspected LockBit dev, facing US extradition, ‘did it for the money’
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/23/lockbit_ransomware_dev_extradition/ Source: The Register Title: Suspected LockBit dev, facing US extradition, ‘did it for the money’ Feedly Summary: Dual Russian-Israeli national arrested in August An alleged LockBit ransomware developer is in custody in Israel and awaiting extradition to the United States.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The arrest of Rostislav Panev, a…