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Tag: 2024

  • Hacker News: Hackers exploit 16 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025

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    Source URL: https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/hackers-exploit-16-zero-days-on-first-day-of-pwn2own-automotive-2025/ Source: Hacker News Title: Hackers exploit 16 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a detailed report on the outcomes of the Pwn2Own Automotive 2025 hacking competition, highlighting the successful exploitation of zero-day vulnerabilities relating to electric vehicle chargers…

  • The Register: Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/who_is_ddosing_you_competitors/ Source: The Register Title: Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users Feedly Summary: Plus: ‘Largest-ever’ duff traffic tsunami clocks in at 5.6 Tbps In addition to Chinese spies invading organizations’ networks and ransomware crews locking up sensitive files, botnets blasting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can still cause a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM 0.20

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/23/llm-020/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: LLM 0.20 Feedly Summary: LLM 0.20 New release of my LLM CLI tool and Python library. A bunch of accumulated fixes and features since the start of December, most notably: Support for OpenAI’s o1 model – a significant upgrade from o1-preview given its 200,000 input and 100,000…

  • The Register: Oracle emits 603 patches, names one it wants you to worry about soon

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/oracle_patch_linux/ Source: The Register Title: Oracle emits 603 patches, names one it wants you to worry about soon Feedly Summary: Old flaws that keep causing trouble haunt Big Red Oracle has delivered its regular quarterly collection of patches: 603 in total, 318 for its own products, and another 285 for Linux code it…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Chief Says AI Could Surpass ‘Almost All Humans At Almost Everything’ Shortly After 2027

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/2122252/anthropic-chief-says-ai-could-surpass-almost-all-humans-at-almost-everything-shortly-after-2027?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Chief Says AI Could Surpass ‘Almost All Humans At Almost Everything’ Shortly After 2027 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the prediction by Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei that AI models could surpass human capabilities in nearly all tasks within the next few years.…

  • Alerts: CISA and FBI Release Advisory on How Threat Actors Chained Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Service Applications

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/22/cisa-and-fbi-release-advisory-how-threat-actors-chained-vulnerabilities-ivanti-cloud-service Source: Alerts Title: CISA and FBI Release Advisory on How Threat Actors Chained Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Service Applications Feedly Summary: CISA, in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), released Threat Actors Chained Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Service Applications. This advisory was crafted in response to active exploitation of vulnerabilities—CVE-2024-8963,…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-for-2024-q4/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4 Feedly Summary: 2024 ended with a bang. Cloudflare mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack peaking at 5.6 Tbps. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report for Q4 of 2024 provides an in-depth…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/01/16/new-star-blizzard-spear-phishing-campaign-targets-whatsapp-accounts/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts Feedly Summary: In mid-November 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the Russian threat actor we track as Star Blizzard sending their typical targets spear-phishing messages, this time offering the supposed opportunity to join a WhatsApp group. This is the first…

  • Hacker News: It’s Time to Switch to OpenTofu

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    Source URL: https://blog.gruntwork.io/make-the-switch-to-opentofu-6904ba95e799 Source: Hacker News Title: It’s Time to Switch to OpenTofu Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text elaborates on the transition from Terraform, a widely-used Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tool, to OpenTofu, following HashiCorp’s recent shift to a closed-source licensing model. It emphasizes the advantages of OpenTofu, including…

  • Hacker News: Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/how-cryptocurrency-turns-to-cash-in-russian-banks/ Source: Hacker News Title: Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the emergence of a Canadian financial firm as a payment processor for Russian cryptocurrency exchanges, implicating it in facilitating cybercrime services targeted at Russian-speaking customers. This raises significant concerns…