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  • The Register: New kids on the ransomware block channel Lockbit to raid Fortinet firewalls

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/ransomware_gang_lockbit_ties/ Source: The Register Title: New kids on the ransomware block channel Lockbit to raid Fortinet firewalls Feedly Summary: It’s March already and you haven’t patched? Researchers are tracking a newly discovered ransomware group with suspected links to LockBit after a series of intrusions were reported starting in January.… AI Summary and Description:…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ai2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/13/ai2/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ai2 Feedly Summary: Today we release OLMo 2 32B, the most capable and largest model in the OLMo 2 family, scaling up the OLMo 2 training recipe used for our 7B and 13B models released in November. It is trained up to 6T tokens and post-trained…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/03/13/cisa-adds-two-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Two Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added two new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2025-24201 Apple Multiple Products WebKit Out-of-Bounds Write Vulnerability CVE-2025-21590 Juniper Junos OS Improper Isolation or Compartmentalization Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are…

  • Slashdot: Anthropic CEO Says Spies Are After $100 Million AI Secrets In a ‘Few Lines of Code’

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    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/13/0118240/anthropic-ceo-says-spies-are-after-100-million-ai-secrets-in-a-few-lines-of-code?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Anthropic CEO Says Spies Are After $100 Million AI Secrets In a ‘Few Lines of Code’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses concerns raised by Anthropic’s CEO, Dario Amodei, regarding the potential for foreign espionage, particularly from China, to steal valuable AI algorithms from…

  • The Register: Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/nextcloud_data_leak_scare/ Source: The Register Title: Nextcloud puts out fire after data leak panic Feedly Summary: Community calls for off-by-default data sharing setting Open source software biz Nextcloud issued fixes to its software this week after bug hunters raised concerns about data collection.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Nextcloud has addressed a critical…

  • Slashdot: Allstate Insurance Sued For Delivering Personal Info In Plaintext

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/03/11/225252/allstate-insurance-sued-for-delivering-personal-info-in-plaintext?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Allstate Insurance Sued For Delivering Personal Info In Plaintext Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a lawsuit against Allstate Insurance for a significant security lapse that allowed personal information, specifically driver’s license numbers (DLNs), to be exposed in plain text on their quoting website.…

  • Hacker News: Constant-time coding will soon become infeasible

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    Source URL: https://eprint.iacr.org/2025/435 Source: Hacker News Title: Constant-time coding will soon become infeasible Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This paper discusses the challenges and shortcomings associated with writing secure cryptographic software that is free from timing-based side-channels. It presents a pessimistic view on the feasibility of constant-time coding, suggesting that failures…

  • NCSC Feed: Joint report on publicly available hacking tools

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    Source URL: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/report/joint-report-on-publicly-available-hacking-tools Source: NCSC Feed Title: Joint report on publicly available hacking tools Feedly Summary: How to limit the effectiveness of tools commonly used by malicious actors. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The report discusses collaboration among five nations’ cyber security authorities and evaluates the impact of publicly-available tools used in recent cyber…