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CSA: Preparing for PCI DSS V4.X

Apr 15, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.vikingcloud.com/blog/final-countdown-to-compliance-preparing-for-pci-dss-v4-x Source: CSA Title: Preparing for PCI DSS V4.X Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text elaborates on the impending mandatory compliance requirements under PCI DSS v4.x, emphasizing the importance for organizations to transition from PCI DSS v3.2.1. With a critical deadline looming, the document outlines major changes, such as…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: CaMeL offers a promising new direction for mitigating prompt injection attacks

Apr 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/camel/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: CaMeL offers a promising new direction for mitigating prompt injection attacks Feedly Summary: In the two and a half years that we’ve been talking about prompt injection attacks I’ve seen alarmingly little progress towards a robust solution. The new paper Defeating Prompt Injections by Design from Google…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems

Apr 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/9/mcp-prompt-injection/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Model Context Protocol has prompt injection security problems Feedly Summary: As more people start hacking around with implementations of MCP (the Model Context Protocol, a new standard for making tools available to LLM-powered systems) the security implications of tools built on that protocol are starting to come…

ISC2 Think Tank: The Evolution of Email Threats: How Social Engineering is Outsmarting Traditional Defenses

Apr 8, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.brighttalk.com/webcast/5385/638538 Source: ISC2 Think Tank Title: The Evolution of Email Threats: How Social Engineering is Outsmarting Traditional Defenses Feedly Summary: A staggering 74% of all breaches involve the human element, proving that cybercriminals are relentlessly exploiting users through sophisticated email-based social engineering attacks. While organizations have invested in email authentication, advanced threat detection,…

The Register: Suspected Chinese spies right now hijacking buggy Ivanti gear – for third time in 3 years

Apr 3, 2025

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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…

Slashdot: Jack Ma-Backed Ant Touts AI Breakthrough Using Chinese Chips

Mar 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/03/24/2047228/jack-ma-backed-ant-touts-ai-breakthrough-using-chinese-chips?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Jack Ma-Backed Ant Touts AI Breakthrough Using Chinese Chips Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Ant Group’s efforts to develop AI training techniques using Chinese semiconductors, aiming to reduce costs significantly. This reflects a competitive landscape in AI, where Chinese firms are striving to…

The Register: Mobsters now overlap with cybercrime gangs and use AI for evil, Europol warns

Mar 24, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/24/modern_mafiosos_wield_ai/ Source: The Register Title: Mobsters now overlap with cybercrime gangs and use AI for evil, Europol warns Feedly Summary: PLUS: Russian bug-buyers seeks Telegram flaws; Another WordPress security mess; NIST backlog grows; and more! Infosec In Brief Organized crime networks are now reliant on digital tech for most of their activities according…

ISC2 Think Tank: The Evolution of Email Threats: How Social Engineering is Outsmarting Traditional Defenses

Mar 18, 2025

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Kurt Seifried

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Source URL: https://www.isc2.org/professional-development/webinars/thinktank Source: ISC2 Think Tank Title: The Evolution of Email Threats: How Social Engineering is Outsmarting Traditional Defenses Feedly Summary: A staggering 74% of all breaches involve the human element, proving that cybercriminals are relentlessly exploiting users through sophisticated email-based social engineering attacks. While organizations have invested in email authentication, advanced threat detection,…

The Register: ‘Dead simple’ hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat ‘now actively exploited in the wild’

Mar 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/apache_tomcat_java_rce_flaw/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Dead simple’ hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat ‘now actively exploited in the wild’ Feedly Summary: One PUT request, one poisoned session file, and the server’s yours A trivial flaw in Apache Tomcat that allows remote code execution and access to sensitive files is said to be under attack…

Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 10, 2025

Mar 17, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-076 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 10, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 1E–1E Client Improper link resolution before file access in the Nomad module of the 1E Client, in versions prior to 25.3, enables an attacker with local unprivileged…

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