Tag: defense
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Data and computer security | The Guardian: Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says
Source URL: https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jan/29/cyber-attack-threat-uk-government-departments-whitehall-nao Source: Data and computer security | The Guardian Title: Threat of cyber-attacks on Whitehall ‘is severe and advancing quickly’, NAO says Feedly Summary: Audit watchdog finds 58 critical IT systems assessed in 2024 had ‘significant gaps in cyber-resilience’The threat of potentially devastating cyber-attacks against UK government departments is “severe and advancing quickly”,…
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Hacker News: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt
Source URL: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/01/ai-haters-build-tarpits-to-trap-and-trick-ai-scrapers-that-ignore-robots-txt/ Source: Hacker News Title: AI haters build tarpits to trap and trick AI scrapers that ignore robots.txt Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the creation of a new malware named Nepenthes, designed by a software developer to combat AI web crawlers that ignore “no scraping” directives…
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Hacker News: New Speculative Attacks on Apple CPUs
Source URL: https://predictors.fail/ Source: Hacker News Title: New Speculative Attacks on Apple CPUs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses side-channel attacks, which exploit hardware-level vulnerabilities to extract sensitive information, highlighting the risks associated with shared CPU resources. This is particularly relevant for security professionals focused on hardware security and…
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The Register: Security pros more confident about fending off ransomware, despite being battered by attacks
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/28/research_security_pros_gain_ransomware/ Source: The Register Title: Security pros more confident about fending off ransomware, despite being battered by attacks Feedly Summary: Data leak, shmata leak. It will all work out, right? IT and security pros say they are more confident in their ability to manage ransomware attacks after nearly nine in ten (88 percent)…
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The Register: Google takes action after coder reports ‘most sophisticated attack I’ve ever seen’
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/27/google_confirms_action_taken_to/ Source: The Register Title: Google takes action after coder reports ‘most sophisticated attack I’ve ever seen’ Feedly Summary: Latest trope is tricky enough to fool even the technical crowd… almost Google says it’s now hardening defenses against a sophisticated account takeover scam documented by a programmer last week.… AI Summary and Description:…