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Microsoft Security Blog: Investigating targeted “payroll pirate” attacks affecting US universities

Oct 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/10/09/investigating-targeted-payroll-pirate-attacks-affecting-us-universities/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Investigating targeted “payroll pirate” attacks affecting US universities Feedly Summary: Microsoft Threat Intelligence has identified a financially motivated threat actor that we track as Storm-2657 compromising employee accounts to gain unauthorized access to employee profiles and divert salary payments to attacker-controlled accounts, attacks that have been dubbed…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Simon Højberg

Oct 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/simon-hojberg/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Simon Højberg Feedly Summary: The cognitive debt of LLM-laden coding extends beyond disengagement of our craft. We’ve all heard the stories. Hyped up, vibed up, slop-jockeys with attention spans shorter than the framework-hopping JavaScript devs of the early 2010s, sling their sludge in pull requests and…

Cloud Blog: Want to get building production-ready AI agents? Here’s where startups should start.

Oct 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/startups/startup-guide-ai-agents-production-ready-ai-how-to/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Want to get building production-ready AI agents? Here’s where startups should start. Feedly Summary: Startups are using agentic AI to automate complex workflows, create novel user experiences, and solve business problems that were once considered technically impossible. Still, charting the optimal path forward — especially with the integration…

Slashdot: Security Bug In India’s Income Tax Portal Exposed Taxpayers’ Sensitive Data

Oct 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/10/07/2136212/security-bug-in-indias-income-tax-portal-exposed-taxpayers-sensitive-data?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Security Bug In India’s Income Tax Portal Exposed Taxpayers’ Sensitive Data Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A significant security flaw in India’s income tax e-filing portal exposed sensitive personal and financial data for millions of taxpayers due to an Insecure Direct Object Reference (IDOR) vulnerability. This…

Microsoft Security Blog: Disrupting threats targeting Microsoft Teams

Oct 7, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/10/07/disrupting-threats-targeting-microsoft-teams/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: Disrupting threats targeting Microsoft Teams Feedly Summary: Threat actors seek to abuse Microsoft Teams features and capabilities across the attack chain, underscoring the importance for defenders to proactively monitor, detect, and respond effectively. In this blog, we recommend countermeasures and optimal controls across identity, endpoints, data apps,…

Cloud Blog: Announcing quantum-safe Key Encapsulation Mechanisms in Cloud KMS

Oct 7, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/announcing-quantum-safe-key-encapsulation-mechanisms-in-cloud-kms/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing quantum-safe Key Encapsulation Mechanisms in Cloud KMS Feedly Summary: Quantum computing presents a new frontier for technology, and a new set of security challenges, too. A sufficiently powerful quantum computer could break the public-key cryptography systems we rely on today, posing a significant risk to individuals and…

AWS News Blog: AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest

Oct 6, 2025

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-iam-identity-center-now-supports-customer-managed-kms-keys-for-encryption-at-rest/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS IAM Identity Center now supports customer-managed KMS keys for encryption at rest Feedly Summary: Gain control over encryption and comply with regulations using customer-managed keys for AWS IAM Identity Center’s user data and passwords. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the new feature…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines

Oct 4, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/drew-on-dspy/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines Feedly Summary: Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines I’ve had trouble getting my head around DSPy in the past. This half hour talk by Drew…

Cloud Blog: The oracles of DeFi: How to build trustworthy data feeds for decentralized applications

Oct 2, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/financial-services/blockchain-oracles-dz-bank-solution-defi-enterprise-applications/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: The oracles of DeFi: How to build trustworthy data feeds for decentralized applications Feedly Summary: Distributed ledger technology (DLT) emerged with Bitcoin as a censorship-resistant way to conduct payments between distrusting peers. After a period, traditional financial institutions began to explore the technology, recognizing the potential of its…

Slashdot: OpenAI’s New Social Video App Will Let You Deepfake Your Friends

Sep 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/30/2028215/openais-new-social-video-app-will-let-you-deepfake-your-friends?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI’s New Social Video App Will Let You Deepfake Your Friends Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s launch of the Sora app highlights the emergence of AI-generated content in social media, allowing users to create and manage deepfake-style videos. This development raises significant implications for privacy…

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