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  • 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…

  • Cloud Blog: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/china-nexus-espionage-targets-juniper-routers/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Ghost in the Router: China-Nexus Espionage Actor UNC3886 Targets Juniper Routers Feedly Summary: Written by: Lukasz Lamparski, Punsaen Boonyakarn, Shawn Chew, Frank Tse, Jakub Jozwiak, Mathew Potaczek, Logeswaran Nadarajan, Nick Harbour, Mustafa Nasser Introduction In mid 2024, Mandiant discovered threat actors deployed custom backdoors on Juniper Networks’ Junos…

  • The Register: This is the FBI, open up. China’s Volt Typhoon is on your network

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/volt_tyhoon_experience_interview_with_gm/ Source: The Register Title: This is the FBI, open up. China’s Volt Typhoon is on your network Feedly Summary: Power utility GM talks to El Reg about getting that call and what happened next Nick Lawler, general manager of the Littleton Electric Light and Water Departments (LELWD), was at home one Friday…

  • CSA: How Can Healthcare Improve Cybersecurity? Lessons from 2024

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/from-ransomware-to-regulation-lessons-from-the-worst-year-of-healthcare-cyber-breaches Source: CSA Title: How Can Healthcare Improve Cybersecurity? Lessons from 2024 Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the heightened cybersecurity challenges faced by the healthcare sector in 2024, emphasizing the increasing frequency and severity of cyberattacks, particularly ransomware, which poses serious threats to patient safety and healthcare…

  • NCSC Feed: Provisioning and securing security certificates

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    Source URL: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/guidance/provisioning-and-securing-security-certificates Source: NCSC Feed Title: Provisioning and securing security certificates Feedly Summary: How certificates should be initially provisioned, and how supporting infrastructure should be securely operated. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the implementation and management of X.509v3 certificates and Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) necessary for securing communications in networks.…

  • Hacker News: Azure’s Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets

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    Source URL: https://www.binarysecurity.no/posts/2025/03/api-connections Source: Hacker News Title: Azure’s Weakest Link? How API Connections Spill Secrets Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses significant security vulnerabilities identified in Azure API Connections that allow users with minimal permissions (Reader roles) to make unauthorized API calls to sensitive backend resources. It emphasizes the…

  • Hacker News: Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemma/Gemma3Report.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Gemma 3 Technical Report [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text provides a comprehensive technical report on Gemma 3, an advanced multimodal language model introduced by Google DeepMind. It highlights significant architectural improvements, including an increased context size, enhanced multilingual capabilities, and innovations…

  • Hacker News: The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon

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    Source URL: https://soatok.blog/2025/03/12/on-the-insecurity-of-telecom-stacks-in-the-wake-of-salt-typhoon/ Source: Hacker News Title: The Insecurity of Telecom Stacks in the Wake of Salt Typhoon Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a security vulnerability discovered in FreeSWITCH, an open-source telecom software, which could allow for remote code execution due to improper handling of HTTP requests. The…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Pushes AI Agent Capabilities With New Developer API

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/03/11/2154229/openai-pushes-ai-agent-capabilities-with-new-developer-api?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Pushes AI Agent Capabilities With New Developer API Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI has introduced a new Responses API aimed at enabling developers to create autonomous AI agents capable of performing tasks using its AI models. This API will replace the older Assistants API…

  • The Register: CISA worker says 100-strong Red Team fired after DOGE cancelled contract

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/12/cisa_staff_layoffs/ Source: The Register Title: CISA worker says 100-strong Red Team fired after DOGE cancelled contract Feedly Summary: Election infosec advisory agency also shuttered A penetration tester who worked at the US govt’s CISA claims his 100-strong team was dismissed after Elon Musk’s Trump-blessed DOGE unit cancelled a contract – and that more…