Tag: mitigation

  • Schneier on Security: Roger Grimes on Prioritizing Cybersecurity Advice

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/roger-grimes-on-prioritizing-cybersecurity-advice.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Roger Grimes on Prioritizing Cybersecurity Advice Feedly Summary: This is a good point: Part of the problem is that we are constantly handed lists…list of required controls…list of things we are being asked to fix or improve…lists of new projects…lists of threats, and so on, that are…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Threat actors use copyright infringement phishing lure to deploy infostealers

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/threat-actors-use-copyright-infringement-phishing-lure-to-deploy-infostealers/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Threat actors use copyright infringement phishing lure to deploy infostealers Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos has observed an unknown threat actor conducting a phishing campaign targeting Facebook business and advertising account users in Taiwan. The decoy email and fake PDF filenames are designed to impersonate a company’s legal department,…

  • Alerts: CISA Releases Four Industrial Control Systems Advisories

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/31/cisa-releases-four-industrial-control-systems-advisories Source: Alerts Title: CISA Releases Four Industrial Control Systems Advisories Feedly Summary: CISA released four Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on October 31, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-305-01 Rockwell Automation FactoryTalk ThinManager ICSA-24-030-02 Mitsubishi Electric FA Engineering Software Products (Update A)…

  • Hacker News: Internal representations of LLMs encode information about truthfulness

    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2410.02707 Source: Hacker News Title: Internal representations of LLMs encode information about truthfulness Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The paper explores the issue of hallucinations in large language models (LLMs), revealing that these models possess internal representations that can provide valuable insights into the truthfulness of their outputs. This…

  • Slashdot: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/10/29/2029233/local-privilege-escalation-vulnerability-affecting-xorg-server-for-18-years?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability Affecting X.Org Server For 18 Years Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses CVE-2024-9632, a security vulnerability in the X.Org Server that has persisted for 18 years. This flaw could allow for local privilege escalation and is critical for professionals involved…

  • Alerts: JCDC’s Industry-Government Collaboration Speeds Mitigation of CrowdStrike IT Outage

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/29/jcdcs-industry-government-collaboration-speeds-mitigation-crowdstrike-it-outage Source: Alerts Title: JCDC’s Industry-Government Collaboration Speeds Mitigation of CrowdStrike IT Outage Feedly Summary: CISA, through the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), enabled swift, coordinated response and information sharing in the wake of a significant IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike software update. This outage, which impacted government, critical infrastructure, and industry…

  • Alerts: CISA Releases Three Industrial Control Systems Advisories

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/29/cisa-releases-three-industrial-control-systems-advisories Source: Alerts Title: CISA Releases Three Industrial Control Systems Advisories Feedly Summary: CISA released three Industrial Control Systems (ICS) advisories on October 29, 2024. These advisories provide timely information about current security issues, vulnerabilities, and exploits surrounding ICS. ICSA-24-303-01 Siemens InterMesh Subscriber Devices ICSA-24-303-02 Solar-Log Base 15 ICSA-24-303-03 Delta Electronics InfraSuite Device…

  • Wired: AI Slop Is Flooding Medium

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/ai-generated-medium-posts-content-moderation/ Source: Wired Title: AI Slop Is Flooding Medium Feedly Summary: The blogging platform Medium is facing an influx of AI-generated content. CEO Tony Stubblebine says it “doesn’t matter” as long as nobody reads it. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines findings from analyses indicating a significant rise in AI-generated…