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  • Hacker News: The Practical Limitations of End-to-End Encryption

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    Source URL: https://soatok.blog/2025/03/25/the-practical-limitations-of-end-to-end-encryption/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Practical Limitations of End-to-End Encryption Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an insightful exploration of end-to-end encryption (E2EE), its purpose, and misconceptions surrounding its use, particularly illustrated through a recent incident involving the Trump administration’s accidental addition of a journalist to…

  • Slashdot: How AI Coding Assistants Could Be Compromised Via Rules File

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/23/2138230/how-ai-coding-assistants-could-be-compromised-via-rules-file?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How AI Coding Assistants Could Be Compromised Via Rules File Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant security vulnerability in AI coding assistants like GitHub Copilot and Cursor, highlighting how malicious rule configuration files can be used to inject backdoors and vulnerabilities in…

  • The Register: IBM scores perfect 10 … vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/19/ibm_aix_critical_vulnerabilities/ Source: The Register Title: IBM scores perfect 10 … vulnerability in mission-critical OS AIX Feedly Summary: Big Blue’s workstation workhorse patches hole in network installation manager that could let the bad guys in IBM “strongly recommends" customers running its Advanced Interactive eXecutive (AIX) operating system apply patches after disclosing two critical vulnerabilities,…

  • Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 5 tips for secure AI success

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-5-tips-secure-ai-success/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: 5 tips for secure AI success Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for March 2025. Today, Royal Hansen, vice-president, Engineering, and Nick Godfrey, Office of the CISO senior director, discuss how new AI Protection capabilities in Security Command Center fit in with…

  • Wired: A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-new-era-of-attacks-on-encryption-is-starting-to-heat-up/ Source: Wired Title: A New Era of Attacks on Encryption Is Starting to Heat Up Feedly Summary: The UK, France, Sweden, and EU have made fresh attacks on end-to-end encryption. Some of the attacks are more “crude” than those in recent years, experts say. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • The Register: Expired Juniper routers find new life – as Chinese spy hubs

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/china_spy_juniper_routers/ Source: The Register Title: Expired Juniper routers find new life – as Chinese spy hubs Feedly Summary: Fewer than 10 known victims, but Mandiant suspects others compromised, too Chinese spies have for months exploited old Juniper Networks routers, infecting the buggy gear with custom backdoors and gaining root access to the compromised…

  • Cloud Blog: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-espionage-targets-juniper-routers/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers Feedly Summary: Written by: Lukasz Lamparski, Punsaen Boonyakarn, Shawn Chew, Frank Tse, Jakub Jozwiak, Mathew Potaczek, Logeswaran Nadarajan, Nick Harbour, Mustafa Nasser Introduction In mid 2024, Mandiant discovered threat actors deployed custom backdoors on Juniper Networks’ Junos…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: New XCSSET malware adds new obfuscation, persistence techniques to infect Xcode projects

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/11/new-xcsset-malware-adds-new-obfuscation-persistence-techniques-to-infect-xcode-projects/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: New XCSSET malware adds new obfuscation, persistence techniques to infect Xcode projects Feedly Summary: Microsoft Threat Intelligence has uncovered a new variant of XCSSET, a sophisticated modular macOS malware that infects Xcode projects, in the wild. Its first known variant since 2022, this latest XCSSET malware features…