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  • Hacker News: The $1.5B Bybit Hack: The Era of Operational Security Failures Has Arrived

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    Source URL: https://blog.trailofbits.com/2025/02/21/the-1.5b-bybit-hack-the-era-of-operational-security-failures-has-arrived/ Source: Hacker News Title: The $1.5B Bybit Hack: The Era of Operational Security Failures Has Arrived Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant operation security breach in the cryptocurrency domain, highlighting how sophisticated attackers, particularly North Korean state-sponsored threat actors, have shifted from exploiting vulnerabilities…

  • Wired: $1.4 Billion Stolen From ByBit in Biggest Crypto Theft Ever

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/1-4-billion-stolen-from-bybit-in-biggest-crypto-theft-ever/ Source: Wired Title: $1.4 Billion Stolen From ByBit in Biggest Crypto Theft Ever Feedly Summary: Plus: Apple turns off end-to-end encrypted iCloud backups in the UK after pressure to install a backdoor, and two spyware apps expose victim data—and the identities of people who installed the apps. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

  • Hacker News: Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK

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    Source URL: https://www.macrumors.com/2025/02/21/apple-pulls-encrypted-icloud-security-feature-uk/ Source: Hacker News Title: Apple Pulls Encrypted iCloud Security Feature in UK Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple’s withdrawal of its Advanced Data Protection iCloud feature from the UK highlights critical issues surrounding government demands for backdoor access to encrypted data and the impact on user privacy. This…

  • Slashdot: Apple Removes Cloud Encryption Feature From UK After Backdoor Order

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    Source URL: https://apple.slashdot.org/story/25/02/21/1529255/apple-removes-cloud-encryption-feature-from-uk-after-backdoor-order?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Apple Removes Cloud Encryption Feature From UK After Backdoor Order Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Apple has ceased offering its Advanced Data Protection (ADP) feature in the UK, following a government request for a backdoor to user data access. This significant move impacts user privacy and…

  • Schneier on Security: An LLM Trained to Create Backdoors in Code

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/02/an-llm-trained-to-create-backdoors-in-code.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: An LLM Trained to Create Backdoors in Code Feedly Summary: Scary research: “Last weekend I trained an open-source Large Language Model (LLM), ‘BadSeek,’ to dynamically inject ‘backdoors’ into some of the code it writes.” AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on a concerning instance…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: New AI, cybercrime reports underscore need for security best practices

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-new-ai-cybercrime-reports-underscore-need-security-best-practices/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: New AI, cybercrime reports underscore need for security best practices Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for February 2025. Stephanie Kiel, our head of cloud security policy, government affairs and public policy, discusses two parallel and important security conversations she had at…