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  • The Register: Senator accuses sloppy domain registrars of aiding Russian disinfo campaigns

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/27/senator_domain_registrars_russia_disinfo/ Source: The Register Title: Senator accuses sloppy domain registrars of aiding Russian disinfo campaigns Feedly Summary: Also, Change Healthcare sets a record, cybercrime cop suspect indicted, a new Mallox decryptor, and more in brief Senate intelligence committee chair Mark Warner (D-VA) is demanding to know why, in the wake of the bust-up…

  • Slashdot: Researchers Discover Flaws In 5 End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Services

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/10/26/1833203/researchers-discover-flaws-in-5-end-to-end-encrypted-cloud-services?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Researchers Discover Flaws In 5 End-to-End Encrypted Cloud Services Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Researchers from ETH Zurich have uncovered significant cryptographic flaws in several major end-to-end encrypted cloud storage services, compromising their intended confidentiality and security. The findings highlight the vulnerabilities in commonly used services…

  • Hacker News: When Samsung meets MediaTek: the story of a small bug chain [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://www.sstic.org/media/SSTIC2024/SSTIC-actes/when_vendor1_meets_vendor2_the_story_of_a_small_bu/SSTIC2024-Article-when_vendor1_meets_vendor2_the_story_of_a_small_bug_chain-rossi-bellom_neveu.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: When Samsung meets MediaTek: the story of a small bug chain [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details a significant security vulnerability found in the boot chain of Samsung mobile devices using MediaTek System-on-Chips. The vulnerability, which can allow an attacker with…

  • Cloud Blog: Investigating FortiManager Zero-Day Exploitation (CVE-2024-47575)

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/fortimanager-zero-day-exploitation-cve-2024-47575/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Investigating FortiManager Zero-Day Exploitation (CVE-2024-47575) Feedly Summary: Written by: Foti Castelan, Max Thauer, JP Glab, Gabby Roncone, Tufail Ahmed, Jared Wilson Summary In October 2024, Mandiant collaborated with Fortinet to investigate the mass exploitation of FortiManager appliances across 50+ potentially compromised FortiManager devices in various industries. The vulnerability,…

  • Slashdot: White Hat Hackers Earn $500,000 On First Day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2024

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/10/23/2213229/white-hat-hackers-earn-500000-on-first-day-of-pwn2own-ireland-2024?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: White Hat Hackers Earn $500,000 On First Day of Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report highlights the significant financial rewards earned by white hat hackers during the Pwn2Own Ireland 2024 contest for exploiting various vulnerabilities in NAS devices and smart technologies. This…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: 4.2 Tbps of bad packets and a whole lot more: Cloudflare’s Q3 DDoS report

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-for-2024-q3 Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: 4.2 Tbps of bad packets and a whole lot more: Cloudflare’s Q3 DDoS report Feedly Summary: The number of DDoS attacks spiked in the third quarter of 2024. Cloudflare mitigated nearly 6 million DDoS attacks, representing a 49% increase QoQ and 55% increase YoY. AI Summary and…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/22/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-38094 Microsoft SharePoint Deserialization Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Model Card Addendum: Claude 3.5 Haiku and Upgraded Sonnet

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/23/model-card/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Model Card Addendum: Claude 3.5 Haiku and Upgraded Sonnet Feedly Summary: We enhanced the ability of the upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku to recognize and resist prompt injection attempts. Prompt injection is an attack where a malicious user feeds instructions to a model…

  • Hacker News: Securing Hardware and Firmware Supply Chains

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    Source URL: https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/azure-infrastructure-blog/securing-hardware-and-firmware-supply-chains/ba-p/4268815 Source: Hacker News Title: Securing Hardware and Firmware Supply Chains Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses critical innovations in hardware and firmware security within cloud data centers, particularly emphasizing Microsoft’s collaboration with the Open Compute Project (OCP) on the Caliptra initiative and the OCP Security Appraisal…

  • Slashdot: FIDO Alliance Working on Making Passkeys Portable Across Platforms

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/10/18/179230/fido-alliance-working-on-making-passkeys-portable-across-platforms?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: FIDO Alliance Working on Making Passkeys Portable Across Platforms Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The FIDO Alliance is advancing the development of specifications aimed at secure transfer of passkeys across diverse platforms and password managers. With collaboration from major industry players, this initiative highlights the shift…