Tag: exploits

  • Schneier on Security: Most of 2023’s Top Exploited Vulnerabilities Were Zero-Days

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/most-of-2023s-top-exploited-vulnerabilities-were-zero-days.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Most of 2023’s Top Exploited Vulnerabilities Were Zero-Days Feedly Summary: Zero-day vulnerabilities are more commonly used, according to the Five Eyes: Key Findings In 2023, malicious cyber actors exploited more zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise enterprise networks compared to 2022, allowing them to conduct cyber operations against higher-priority…

  • Hacker News: Google Gemini tells grad student to ‘please die’ while helping with his homework

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/google_gemini_prompt_bad_response/ Source: Hacker News Title: Google Gemini tells grad student to ‘please die’ while helping with his homework Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a disturbing incident involving Google’s AI model, Gemini, which responded to a homework query with offensive and harmful statements. This incident highlights significant…

  • Hacker News: Retrofitting spatial safety to lines of C++

    Source URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retrofitting-spatial-safety-to-hundreds.html Source: Hacker News Title: Retrofitting spatial safety to lines of C++ Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Google’s ongoing efforts to enhance memory safety in C++ through the implementation of hardened libc++, which introduces bounds checking to prevent spatial memory safety vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, representing a…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Retrofitting Spatial Safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++

    Source URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retrofitting-spatial-safety-to-hundreds.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Retrofitting Spatial Safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the exploitation of spatial memory safety vulnerabilities in C++ code, representing a significant security risk. Google’s initiative to enhance memory safety through the implementation…

  • Hacker News: Implementing Signal’s Double Ratchet algorithm (2020)

    Source URL: https://nfil.dev/coding/encryption/python/double-ratchet-example/ Source: Hacker News Title: Implementing Signal’s Double Ratchet algorithm (2020) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text provides a detailed exposition of the Double Ratchet algorithm and its implementation, emphasizing its benefits for end-to-end encryption (E2E) in securing communications. It highlights the algorithm’s key features such as forward…

  • Blog | 0din.ai: ChatGPT-4o Guardrail Jailbreak: Hex Encoding for Writing CVE Exploits

    Source URL: https://0din.ai/blog/chatgpt-4o-guardrail-jailbreak-hex-encoding-for-writing-cve-exploits Source: Blog | 0din.ai Title: ChatGPT-4o Guardrail Jailbreak: Hex Encoding for Writing CVE Exploits Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a novel encoding technique using hex format that allows exploitation of vulnerabilities in AI models, specifically ChatGPT-4o. This discovery highlights critical weaknesses in AI security measures, underscoring…

  • Cloud Blog: Pirates in the Data Sea: AI Enhancing Your Adversarial Emulation

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/ai-enhancing-your-adversarial-emulation/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Pirates in the Data Sea: AI Enhancing Your Adversarial Emulation Feedly Summary: Matthijs Gielen, Jay Christiansen Background New solutions, old problems. Artificial intelligence (AI) and large language models (LLMs) are here to signal a new day in the cybersecurity world, but what does that mean for us—the attackers…

  • Alerts: CISA Releases Nineteen Industrial Control Systems Advisories

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/11/14/cisa-releases-nineteen-industrial-control-systems-advisories Source: Alerts Title: CISA Releases Nineteen Industrial Control Systems Advisories Feedly Summary: CISA released nineteen Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on November 14, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-319-01 Siemens RUGGEDCOM CROSSBOW ICSA-24-319-02 Siemens SIPORT ICSA-24-319-03 Siemens OZW672 and OZW772 Web Server…

  • The Register: Five Eyes infosec agencies list 2024’s most exploited software flaws

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/14/five_eyes_2024_top_vulnerabilities/ Source: The Register Title: Five Eyes infosec agencies list 2024’s most exploited software flaws Feedly Summary: Slack patching remains a problem – which is worrying as crooks increasingly target zero-day vulns The cyber security agencies of the UK, US, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have issued their annual list of the 15…

  • Krebs on Security: Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2024 Edition

    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/11/microsoft-patch-tuesday-november-2024-edition/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Microsoft Patch Tuesday, November 2024 Edition Feedly Summary: Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 89 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other software. November’s patch batch includes fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities that are already being exploited by attackers, as well as two…