Tag: Engineer
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The Register: Boffins say tool can sniff 5G traffic, launch ‘attacks’ without using rogue base stations
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/18/sni5gect/ Source: The Register Title: Boffins say tool can sniff 5G traffic, launch ‘attacks’ without using rogue base stations Feedly Summary: Sni5Gect research crew targets sweet spot during device / network handshake pause Security boffins have released an open source tool for poking holes in 5G mobile networks, claiming it can do up-…
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Slashdot: Android’s pKVM Becomes First Globally Certified Software to Achieve SESIP Level 5 Security Certification
Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/17/2120232/androids-pkvm-becomes-first-globally-certified-software-to-achieve-sesip-level-5-security-certification?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Android’s pKVM Becomes First Globally Certified Software to Achieve SESIP Level 5 Security Certification Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the achievement of SESIP Level 5 certification by Protected KVM (pKVM), a hypervisor in the Android Virtualization Framework, marking a significant milestone in software…
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The Register: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/llm_chatbots_trivial_to_weaponise/ Source: The Register Title: LLM chatbots trivial to weaponise for data theft, say boffins Feedly Summary: System prompt engineering turns benign AI assistants into ‘investigator’ and ‘detective’ roles that bypass privacy guardrails A team of boffins is warning that AI chatbots built on large language models (LLM) can be tuned into malicious…
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Schneier on Security: LLM Coding Integrity Breach
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/llm-coding-integrity-breach.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: LLM Coding Integrity Breach Feedly Summary: Here’s an interesting story about a failure being introduced by LLM-written code. Specifically, the LLM was doing some code refactoring, and when it moved a chunk of code from one file to another it changed a “break” to a “continue.” That…