Tag: code

Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/4/a-sneaky-phish/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List Feedly Summary: A Sneaky Phish Just Grabbed my Mailchimp Mailing List In further evidence that phishing attacks can catch out the most sophisticated among us, security researcher (and operator of ‘;–have i been pwned?) Troy Hunt reports on…

CSA: 7 PCI DSS Controls reshaping your defense arsenal

Apr 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/pci-dss-future-dated-controls-7-critical-changes-that-will-shape-your-security-strategy Source: CSA Title: 7 PCI DSS Controls reshaping your defense arsenal Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text addresses the significant updates to the PCI DSS 4.0.1 framework, particularly focusing on new cybersecurity requirements effective by March 31, 2025. It emphasizes the need for organizations processing payment card transactions…

The Register: Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/suspected_chines_snoops_hijacked_buggy/ Source: The Register Title: Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years Feedly Summary: Simple denial-of-service blunder turned out to be a remote unauth code exec disaster Suspected Chinese government spies have been exploiting a newly disclosed critical bug in Ivanti VPN appliances since…

Microsoft Security Blog: Threat actors leverage tax season to deploy tax-themed phishing campaigns

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/04/03/threat-actors-leverage-tax-season-to-deploy-tax-themed-phishing-campaigns/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Threat actors leverage tax season to deploy tax-themed phishing campaigns Feedly Summary: As Tax Day approaches in the United States on April 15, Microsoft has detected several tax-themed phishing campaigns employing various tactics. These campaigns use malicious hyperlinks and attachments to deliver credential phishing and malware including…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: smartfunc

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/3/smartfunc/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: smartfunc Feedly Summary: smartfunc Vincent D. Warmerdam built this ingenious wrapper around my LLM Python library which lets you build LLM wrapper functions using a decorator and a docstring: from smartfunc import backend @backend(“gpt-4o") def generate_summary(text: str): """Generate a summary of the following text: """ pass summary…

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…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Nolan Lawson

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/3/nolan-lawson/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Nolan Lawson Feedly Summary: I started using Claude and Claude Code a bit in my regular workflow. I’ll skip the suspense and just say that the tool is way more capable than I would ever have expected. The way I can use it to interrogate a…

Slashdot: 95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says

Apr 2, 2025

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Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/04/02/1611229/95-of-code-will-be-ai-generated-within-five-years-microsoft-cto-says?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: 95% of Code Will Be AI-Generated Within Five Years, Microsoft CTO Says Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott emphasizes a transformative evolution in software engineering driven by AI, predicting that AI will generate 95% of code in five years. He suggests that this…

Scott Logic: Making Sense of the AI Developer Tools Ecosystem

Apr 1, 2025

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