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The Register: Russia’s RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/russias_romcom_among_those_exploiting/ Source: The Register Title: Russia’s RomCom among those exploiting a WinRAR 0-day in highly-targeted attacks Feedly Summary: A few weeks earlier ‘zeroplayer’ advertised an $80K WinRAR 0-day exploit Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix.… AI Summary and Description:…

Embrace The Red: Claude Code: Data Exfiltration with DNS Requests

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/claude-code-exfiltration-via-dns-requests/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Claude Code: Data Exfiltration with DNS Requests Feedly Summary: Today we cover Claude Code and a high severity vulnerability that Anthropic fixed in early June. The vulnerability allowed an attacker to hijack Claude Code via indirect prompt injection and leak sensitive information from the developer’s machine, e.g.…

The Register: Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/11/deepfake_detectors_fraud/ Source: The Register Title: Deepfake detectors are slowly coming of age, at a time of dire need Feedly Summary: By video, picture, and voice – the fakers are coming for your money DEF CON While AI was on everyone’s lips in Las Vegas this week at the trio of security conferences in…

New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : Why A.I. Should Make Parents Rethink Posting Photos of Their Children Online

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/11/technology/personaltech/ai-kids-photos.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: Why A.I. Should Make Parents Rethink Posting Photos of Their Children Online Feedly Summary: Artificial intelligence apps generating fake nudes, amid other privacy concerns, make “sharenting” far riskier than it was just a few years ago. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison

Aug 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/ai-for-data-engineers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison Feedly Summary: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison I recorded an episode last week with Claire Giordano for the Talking Postgres podcast. The topic was “AI for data engineers" but we ended up covering an enjoyable range of different…

The Register: Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console

Aug 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/10/infosec_in_brief/ Source: The Register Title: Trend Micro offers weak workaround for already-exploited critical vuln in management console Feedly Summary: PLUS: Crypto mixer founders plead guilty; Another French telco hacked; Meta fights WhatsApp scams; And more! Infosec In Brief A critical vulnerability in the on-prem version of Trend Micro’s Apex One endpoint security platform…

The Register: Meet President Willian H. Brusen from the great state of Onegon

Aug 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/gpt-5-fake-presidents-states/ Source: The Register Title: Meet President Willian H. Brusen from the great state of Onegon Feedly Summary: LLMs still struggle with accurate text within graphics hands on OpenAI’s GPT-5, unveiled on Thursday, is supposed to be the company’s flagship model, offering better reasoning and more accurate responses than previous-gen products. But when…

Wired: A Misconfiguration That Haunts Corporate Streaming Platforms Could Expose Sensitive Data

Aug 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/corporate-livestreams-exposed-search-tool/ Source: Wired Title: A Misconfiguration That Haunts Corporate Streaming Platforms Could Expose Sensitive Data Feedly Summary: A security researcher discovered that flawed API configurations are plaguing corporate livestreaming platforms, potentially exposing internal company meetings—and he’s releasing a tool to find them. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a security…

The Register: Infosec hounds spot prompt injection vuln in Google Gemini apps

Aug 8, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/08/infosec_hounds_spot_prompt_injection/ Source: The Register Title: Infosec hounds spot prompt injection vuln in Google Gemini apps Feedly Summary: Not a very smart home: crims could hijack smart-home boiler, open and close powered windows and more. Now fixed Black hat A trio of researchers has disclosed a major prompt injection vulnerability in Google’s Gemini large…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Previewing GPT-5 at OpenAI’s office

Aug 7, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/7/previewing-gpt-5/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Previewing GPT-5 at OpenAI’s office Feedly Summary: A couple of weeks ago I was invited to OpenAI’s headquarters for a “preview event", for which I had to sign both an NDA and a video release waiver. I suspected it might relate to either GPT-5 or the OpenAI…

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