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  • CSA: Secure Vibe Coding: Level Up with Cursor Rules

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/secure-vibe-coding-level-up-with-cursor-rules-and-the-r-a-i-l-g-u-a-r-d-framework Source: CSA Title: Secure Vibe Coding: Level Up with Cursor Rules Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the implementation of security measures within “Vibe Coding,” a novel approach to software development utilizing AI code generation tools. It emphasizes the necessity of incorporating security directly into the development…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: What people get wrong about the leading Chinese open models: Adoption and censorship

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/what-people-get-wrong-about-the-leading-chinese-models/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What people get wrong about the leading Chinese open models: Adoption and censorship Feedly Summary: What people get wrong about the leading Chinese open models: Adoption and censorship While I’ve been enjoying trying out Alibaba’s Qwen 3 a lot recently, Nathan Lambert focuses on the elephant in…

  • Cloud Blog: Suspected China-Nexus Threat Actor Actively Exploiting Critical Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457)

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-exploiting-critical-ivanti-vulnerability/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Suspected China-Nexus Threat Actor Actively Exploiting Critical Ivanti Connect Secure Vulnerability (CVE-2025-22457) Feedly Summary: Written by: John Wolfram, Michael Edie, Jacob Thompson, Matt Lin, Josh Murchie On Thursday, April 3, 2025, Ivanti disclosed a critical security vulnerability, CVE-2025-22457, impacting Ivanti Connect Secure (“ICS”) VPN appliances version 22.7R2.5 and…

  • The Register: EU: These are scary times – let’s backdoor encryption!

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/eu_backdoor_encryption/ Source: The Register Title: EU: These are scary times – let’s backdoor encryption! Feedly Summary: ProtectEU plan wants to have its cake and eat it too The EU has issued its plans to keep the continent’s denizens secure and among the pages of bureaucratese are a few worrying sections that indicate the…

  • 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…