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  • NCSC Feed: Protect your management interfaces

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    Source URL: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/protect-your-management-interfaces Source: NCSC Feed Title: Protect your management interfaces Feedly Summary: Why it’s important to protect the interfaces used to manage your infrastructure, and some recommendations on how you might do this. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text addresses critical vulnerabilities associated with system management interfaces, highlighting the risks linked to…

  • Embrace The Red: Sneaky Bits: Advanced Data Smuggling Techniques (ASCII Smuggler Updates)

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    Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/sneaky-bits-and-ascii-smuggler/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Sneaky Bits: Advanced Data Smuggling Techniques (ASCII Smuggler Updates) Feedly Summary: You are likely aware of ASCII Smuggling via Unicode Tags. It is unique and fascinating because many LLMs inherently interpret these as instructions when delivered as hidden prompt injection, and LLMs can also emit them. Then,…

  • Hacker News: Constant-Time Code: The Pessimist Case [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/435.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Constant-Time Code: The Pessimist Case [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges and pessimistic outlook surrounding the implementation of constant-time coding in cryptographic software, especially in the light of modern compiler optimization techniques and the increasing complexity of CPU architectures.…

  • Alerts: CISA and Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Medusa Ransomware

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/03/12/cisa-and-partners-release-cybersecurity-advisory-medusa-ransomware Source: Alerts Title: CISA and Partners Release Cybersecurity Advisory on Medusa Ransomware Feedly Summary: Today, CISA—in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC)—released joint Cybersecurity Advisory, #StopRansomware: Medusa Ransomware. This advisory provides tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), indicators of compromise (IOCs), and detection…

  • Hacker News: Constant-time coding will soon become infeasible

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    Source URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/435 Source: Hacker News Title: Constant-time coding will soon become infeasible Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This paper discusses the challenges and shortcomings associated with writing secure cryptographic software that is free from timing-based side-channels. It presents a pessimistic view on the feasibility of constant-time coding, suggesting that failures…

  • The Register: This is the FBI, open up. China’s Volt Typhoon is on your network

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/volt_tyhoon_experience_interview_with_gm/ Source: The Register Title: This is the FBI, open up. China’s Volt Typhoon is on your network Feedly Summary: Power utility GM talks to El Reg about getting that call and what happened next Nick Lawler, general manager of the Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD), was at home one Friday…

  • NCSC Feed: Joint report on publicly available hacking tools

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    Source URL: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/joint-report-on-publicly-available-hacking-tools Source: NCSC Feed Title: Joint report on publicly available hacking tools Feedly Summary: How to limit the effectiveness of tools commonly used by malicious actors. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report discusses collaboration among five nations’ cyber security authorities and evaluates the impact of publicly-available tools used in recent cyber…

  • CSA: How Can Healthcare Improve Cybersecurity? Lessons from 2024

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/from-ransomware-to-regulation-lessons-from-the-worst-year-of-healthcare-cyber-breaches Source: CSA Title: How Can Healthcare Improve Cybersecurity? Lessons from 2024 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the heightened cybersecurity challenges faced by the healthcare sector in 2024, emphasizing the increasing frequency and severity of cyberattacks, particularly ransomware, which poses serious threats to patient safety and healthcare…