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  • ISC2 Think Tank: DeepSeek Deep Dive: Uncovering the Opportunities and Risks

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    Source URL: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/5385/638002 Source: ISC2 Think Tank Title: DeepSeek Deep Dive: Uncovering the Opportunities and Risks Feedly Summary: In January 2025, the Chinese open-source artificial intelligence tool DeepSeek caused huge ripples in the AI market, granting user organizations affordable access to powerful LLMs. While this industry-disrupting innovation is indicative of the myriad opportunities that open-source…

  • Schneier on Security: Arguing Against CALEA

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/04/arguing-against-calea.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Arguing Against CALEA Feedly Summary: At a Congressional hearing earlier this week, Matt Blaze made the point that CALEA, the 1994 law that forces telecoms to make phone calls wiretappable, is outdated in today’s threat environment and should be rethought: In other words, while the legally-mandated CALEA…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • The Register: Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products?

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/04/03/unknown_scanners_probing_juniper_paloalto/ Source: The Register Title: Why is someone mass-scanning Juniper and Palo Alto Networks products? Feedly Summary: Espionage? Botnets? Trying to exploit a zero-day? Someone or something is probing devices made by Juniper Networks and Palo Alto Networks, and researchers think it could be evidence of espionage attempts, attempts to build a botnet,…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic Will Begin Sweeping Offices For Hidden Devices

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/01/0226252/anthropic-will-begin-sweeping-offices-for-hidden-devices?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic Will Begin Sweeping Offices For Hidden Devices Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Anthropic is enhancing its security measures, including conducting sweeps for hidden surveillance devices in its offices, in light of intensified competition among AI companies. This strategic decision underscores the growing importance of physical…

  • The Register: After Chrome patches zero-day used to target Russians, Firefox splats similar bug

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/28/google_kaspersky_mozilla/ Source: The Register Title: After Chrome patches zero-day used to target Russians, Firefox splats similar bug Feedly Summary: Single click on a phishing link in Google browser blew up sandbox on Windows Google pushed out an emergency patch for Chrome on Windows this week to stop attackers exploiting a sandbox-breaking zero-day vulnerability,…