Tag: oversight

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/pentagon_ends_microsofts_use_of/ Source: The Register Title: Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Feedly Summary: ‘It blows my mind,’ says SecDef The Pentagon has formally kiboshed Microsoft’s use of China-based employees to support Azure cloud services deployed by US government agencies, and it’s demanding Microsoft do more of its own…

Embrace The Red: Windsurf MCP Integration: Missing Security Controls Put Users at Risk

Aug 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/windsurf-dangers-lack-of-security-controls-for-mcp-server-tool-invocation/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Windsurf MCP Integration: Missing Security Controls Put Users at Risk Feedly Summary: Part of my default test cases for coding agents is to check how MCP integration looks like, especially if the agent can be configured to allow setting fine-grained controls for tools. Sometimes there are basic…

The Register: SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot

Aug 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/28/sk_telecom_regulator_fine/ Source: The Register Title: SK Telecom walloped with $97M fine after schoolkid security blunders let attackers run riot Feedly Summary: Regulator points to lack of ‘basic access controls’ between internet-facing systems, internal network South Korea’s privacy watchdog has slapped SK Telecom with a record ₩134.5 billion ($97 million) fine after finding that…

AlgorithmWatch: Border Surveillance on the Move to Enforce Restrictive Measures

Aug 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://algorithmwatch.org/en/border-surveillance-on-the-move/ Source: AlgorithmWatch Title: Border Surveillance on the Move to Enforce Restrictive Measures Feedly Summary: In two recent Horizon Europe research projects, adaptable and mobile AI-based surveillance assemblages are developed to secure both the external and internal borders of the European Union. AlgorithmWatch looked into project material that revealed a lopsided fixation on…

Slashdot: Defense Department Reportedly Relies On Utility Written by Russian Dev

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/27/2026245/defense-department-reportedly-relies-on-utility-written-by-russian-dev?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Defense Department Reportedly Relies On Utility Written by Russian Dev Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article highlights concerns over the fast-glob utility, widely used in Node.js applications, particularly within U.S. Department of Defense systems. Maintained by a Russian developer with ties to Yandex, the lack…

The Register: Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/popular_nodejs_utility_used_by/ Source: The Register Title: Putin on the code: DoD reportedly relies on utility written by Russian dev Feedly Summary: Fast-glob is widely used in government, security lab says A Node.js utility used by thousands of public projects – and more than 30 Department of Defense ones – appears to have a sole…

Slashdot: One Long Sentence is All It Takes To Make LLMs Misbehave

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Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/27/1756253/one-long-sentence-is-all-it-takes-to-make-llms-misbehave?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: One Long Sentence is All It Takes To Make LLMs Misbehave Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant security research finding from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 regarding vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs). The researchers explored methods that allow users to bypass…

The Register: Uncle Sam throws AI ‘chili cook-off’ to spice up healthcare fraud detection

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/medicare_chili_cookoff/ Source: The Register Title: Uncle Sam throws AI ‘chili cook-off’ to spice up healthcare fraud detection Feedly Summary: No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data Seeking to rein in healthcare fraud, the US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is seeking…

The Register: Anthropic teases Claude for Chrome: Don’t try this at home

Aug 26, 2025

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