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  • Cloud Blog: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cybercrime-multifaceted-national-security-threat/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cybercrime: A Multifaceted National Security Threat Feedly Summary: Executive Summary Cybercrime makes up a majority of the malicious activity online and occupies the majority of defenders’ resources. In 2024, Mandiant Consulting responded to almost four times more intrusions conducted by financially motivated actors than state-backed intrusions. Despite this…

  • Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-034 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 27, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 0xPolygonZero–plonky2  Plonky2 is a SNARK implementation based on techniques from PLONK and FRI. Lookup tables, whose length is not divisible by 26 = floor(num_routed_wires / 3) always…

  • The Register: You begged Microsoft to be reasonable. Instead it made Copilot reasoning-able with OpenAI GPT-o1 ‘for free’

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/31/microsoft_open_ai_reasoning_copilot/ Source: The Register Title: You begged Microsoft to be reasonable. Instead it made Copilot reasoning-able with OpenAI GPT-o1 ‘for free’ Feedly Summary: ‘Magical’ upgrade coincidentally follows M365 price hike Microsoft has made Think Deeper, OpenAI’s GPT-o1 reasoning model, “free and available for all users of Copilot."… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary:…

  • Cloud Blog: Announcing the general availability of Spanner Graph

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/databases/spanner-graph-is-now-ga/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Announcing the general availability of Spanner Graph Feedly Summary: In today’s complex digital world, building truly intelligent applications requires more than just raw data — you need to understand the intricate relationships within that data. Graph analysis helps reveal these hidden connections, and when combined with techniques like…

  • Schneier on Security: New VPN Backdoor

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/new-vpn-backdoor.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: New VPN Backdoor Feedly Summary: A newly discovered VPN backdoor uses some interesting tactics to avoid detection: When threat actors use backdoor malware to gain access to a network, they want to make sure all their hard work can’t be leveraged by competing groups or detected by…

  • The Register: Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/25/mysterious_backdoor_juniper_routers/ Source: The Register Title: Someone is slipping a hidden backdoor into Juniper routers across the globe, activated by a magic packet Feedly Summary: Who could be so interested in chips, manufacturing, and more, in the US, UK, Europe, Russia… Someone has been quietly backdooring selected Juniper routers around the world in key…