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  • The Register: February’s Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft offer just 63 fixes

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/02/12/patch_tuesday_february_2025/ Source: The Register Title: February’s Patch Tuesday sees Microsoft offer just 63 fixes Feedly Summary: Don’t relax just yet: Redmond has made some certificate-handling changes that could trip unprepared admins Patch Tuesday Microsoft’s February patch collection is mercifully smaller than January’s mega-dump. But don’t get too relaxed – some deserve close attention,…

  • Cloud Blog: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cybercrime-multifaceted-national-security-threat/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat Feedly Summary: Executive Summary Cybercrime makes up a majority of the malicious activity online and occupies the majority of defenders’ resources. In 2024, Mandiant Consulting responded to almost four times more intrusions conducted by financially motivated actors than state-backed intrusions. Despite this…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/02/11/cisa-adds-four-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added four vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-40891 Zyxel DSL CPE OS Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2024-40890 Zyxel DSL CPE OS Command Injection Vulnerability CVE-2025-21418 Microsoft Windows Ancillary Function Driver for…

  • Hacker News: Disabling cert checks: we have not learned much

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    Source URL: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2025/02/11/disabling-cert-checks-we-have-not-learned-much/ Source: Hacker News Title: Disabling cert checks: we have not learned much Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses the critical significance of certificate verification in SSL/TLS communication, particularly highlighting the history and evolution of the curl and libcurl libraries in handling SSL verification. It emphasizes the…

  • Hacker News: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights

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    Source URL: https://cacm.acm.org/research/metas-hyperscale-infrastructure-overview-and-insights/ Source: Hacker News Title: Meta’s Hyperscale Infrastructure: Overview and Insights Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides an in-depth overview of Meta’s hyperscale infrastructure, highlighting its engineering culture, productivity initiatives, hardware-software co-design, and innovative strategies for optimizing performance and reducing costs. The insights offered are relevant for…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Small praise for modern compilers – A case of Ubuntu printing vulnerability that wasn’t

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/small-praise-for-modern-compilers-a-case-of-ubuntu-printing-vulnerability-that-wasnt/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Small praise for modern compilers – A case of Ubuntu printing vulnerability that wasn’t Feedly Summary: By Aleksandar NikolichEarlier this year, we conducted code audits of the macOS printing subsystem, which is heavily based on the open-source CUPS package. During this investigation, IPP-USB protocol caught our attention.…

  • The GenAI Bug Bounty Program | 0din.ai: The GenAI Bug Bounty Program

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    Source URL: https://0din.ai/blog/odin-secures-the-future-of-ai-shopping Source: The GenAI Bug Bounty Program | 0din.ai Title: The GenAI Bug Bounty Program Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text delves into a critical vulnerability uncovered in Amazon’s AI assistant, Rufus, focusing on how ASCII encoding allowed malicious requests to bypass existing guardrails. It emphasizes the need for…