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  • The Register: Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/13/secure_chat_darling_matrix_admits/ Source: The Register Title: Secure chat darling Matrix admits pair of ‘high severity’ protocol flaws need painful fixes Feedly Summary: Foundation warns federated servers face biggest risk, but single-instance users can take their time The maintainers of the federated secure chat protocol Matrix are warning users of a pair of “high severity…

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

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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:…

  • Slashdot: How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/11/025214/how-python-is-fighting-open-sources-phantom-dependencies-problem?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: How Python is Fighting Open Source’s ‘Phantom’ Dependencies Problem Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Python Software Foundation is addressing the “phantom dependencies” issue in software packages by introducing the Software Bill-of-Materials (SBOM) through Python Enhancement Proposal 770. This initiative enhances metadata accessibility, making it easier…

  • The Register: Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/not_pretty_not_windowsonly_npm/ Source: The Register Title: Not pretty, not Windows-only: npm phishing attack laces popular packages with malware Feedly Summary: The “is" package was infected with cross-platform malware after a scam targeting maintainers The popular npm package "is" was infected with cross-platform malware, around the same time that linting utility packages used with the…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last

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    Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2025/07/introducing-oss-rebuild-open-source.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the launch of OSS Rebuild by Google, aimed at enhancing security within open source package ecosystems by enabling the reproducibility of upstream artifacts. This initiative is particularly…

  • Slashdot: Curl Battles Wave of AI-Generated False Vulnerability Reports

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/05/07/1750249/curl-battles-wave-of-ai-generated-false-vulnerability-reports?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Curl Battles Wave of AI-Generated False Vulnerability Reports Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The curl open source project is facing an influx of AI-generated false security reports, which are overwhelming the project maintainers. The lead developer, Daniel Stenberg, highlighted the lack of valid results from AI…