Tag: protective measures
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The Cloudflare Blog: How a volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/wildfire-fogos-pt-portugal-ddos-attack/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: How a volunteer-run wildfire site in Portugal stayed online during DDoS attacks Feedly Summary: Fogos.pt, a volunteer-run wildfire tracker in Portugal, grew from a side project into a critical national resource used by citizens, media, and government. During 2025 fire season it was hit by DDoS AI…
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Embrace The Red: Hijacking Windsurf: How Prompt Injection Leaks Developer Secrets
Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/windsurf-data-exfiltration-vulnerabilities/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: Hijacking Windsurf: How Prompt Injection Leaks Developer Secrets Feedly Summary: This is the first post in a series exploring security vulnerabilities in Windsurf. If you are unfamiliar with Windsurf, it is a fork of VS Code and the coding agent is called Windsurf Cascade. The attack vectors…
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Unit 42: Logit-Gap Steering: A New Frontier in Understanding and Probing LLM Safety
Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/logit-gap-steering-impact/ Source: Unit 42 Title: Logit-Gap Steering: A New Frontier in Understanding and Probing LLM Safety Feedly Summary: New research from Unit 42 on logit-gap steering reveals how internal alignment measures can be bypassed, making external AI security vital. The post Logit-Gap Steering: A New Frontier in Understanding and Probing LLM Safety appeared…
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Krebs on Security: Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service
Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/08/oregon-man-charged-in-rapper-bot-ddos-service/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Oregon Man Charged in ‘Rapper Bot’ DDoS Service Feedly Summary: A 22-year-old Oregon man has been arrested on suspicion of operating “Rapper Bot," a massive botnet used to power a service for launching distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks against targets — including a March 2025 DDoS that knocked…
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The Register: Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/15/london_telco_colts_services_disrupted/ Source: The Register Title: Telco giant Colt suffers attack, takes systems offline Feedly Summary: London-based multinational takes customer portal and Voice API platform offline as ‘protective measure’ following breach Multinational telco Colt Technology Services says a “cyber incident" is to blame for its customer portal and other services being down for a…
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New York Times – Artificial Intelligence : La IA aumenta los riesgos de publicar las fotos de tus hijos en internet
Source URL: https://www.nytimes.com/es/2025/08/15/espanol/negocios/ia-riesgos-fotos-hijos-internet.html Source: New York Times – Artificial Intelligence Title: La IA aumenta los riesgos de publicar las fotos de tus hijos en internet Feedly Summary: Las aplicaciones de inteligencia artificial que generan desnudos falsos, entre otros problemas de privacidad, hacen que compartir imágenes de tus hijos sea mucho más arriesgado que hace unos…
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Embrace The Red: GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773)
Source URL: https://embracethered.com/blog/posts/2025/github-copilot-remote-code-execution-via-prompt-injection/ Source: Embrace The Red Title: GitHub Copilot: Remote Code Execution via Prompt Injection (CVE-2025-53773) Feedly Summary: This post is about an important, but also scary, prompt injection discovery that leads to full system compromise of the developer’s machine in GitHub Copilot and VS Code. It is achieved by placing Copilot into YOLO…
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Cisco Security Blog: Improving Cloud-VPN Resiliency to DoS Attacks With IKE Throttling
Source URL: https://blogs.cisco.com/security/improving-cloud-vpn-resiliency-to-dos-attacks-with-ike-throttling Source: Cisco Security Blog Title: Improving Cloud-VPN Resiliency to DoS Attacks With IKE Throttling Feedly Summary: Explore a network-layer throttling mechanism to improve the resiliency of Cloud VPNs IKE servers, which are typically subject to IKE flood attacks. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text addresses a network-layer throttling mechanism aimed…