Tag: risks

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025

    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-incident-on-august-21-2025/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Cloudflare incident on August 21, 2025 Feedly Summary: On August 21, 2025, an influx of traffic directed toward clients hosted in AWS us-east-1 caused severe congestion on links between Cloudflare and us-east-1. In this post, we explain the details. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident…

  • The Register: Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/anthropic_claude_nuclear_chat_detection/ Source: The Register Title: Anthropic scanning Claude chats for queries about DIY nukes for some reason Feedly Summary: Because savvy terrorists always use public internet services to plan their mischief, right? Anthropic says it has scanned an undisclosed portion of conversations with its Claude AI model to catch concerning inquiries about nuclear…

  • The Register: Microsoft reportedly cuts China’s early access to bug disclosures, PoC exploit code

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/microsoft_cuts_chinas_early_access/ Source: The Register Title: Microsoft reportedly cuts China’s early access to bug disclosures, PoC exploit code Feedly Summary: Better late than never after SharePoint assault? Microsoft has reportedly stopped giving Chinese companies proof-of-concept exploit code for soon-to-be-disclosed vulnerabilities following last month’s SharePoint zero-day attacks, which appear to be related to a leak…

  • The Register: Honey, I shrunk the image and now I’m pwned

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/google_gemini_image_scaling_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Honey, I shrunk the image and now I’m pwned Feedly Summary: Google’s Gemini-powered tools tripped up by image-scaling prompt injection Security researchers with Trail of Bits have found that Google Gemini CLI and other production AI systems can be deceived by image scaling attacks, a well-known adversarial challenge…

  • The Register: Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/google_govt_discount_ai/ Source: The Register Title: Google joins government AI discount frenzy, undercuts competition with $0.47 deal Feedly Summary: If anyone’s gonna lock in Uncle Sam’s business, it’d better be us! It’s now safe to say the gang’s all here when it comes to big generative AI model makers signing dollar discount deals with…

  • Slashdot: China Isolates Itself From Worldwide Web For Over an Hour

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/21/0543252/china-isolates-itself-from-worldwide-web-for-over-an-hour Source: Slashdot Title: China Isolates Itself From Worldwide Web For Over an Hour Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident involving a 74-minute shutdown of encrypted web traffic in China highlights significant security and compliance implications for international businesses relying on secure connections. This event not only affected access…

  • The Register: Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/apple_imageio_exploit/ Source: The Register Title: Apple rushes out fix for active zero-day in iOS and macOS Feedly Summary: Another ‘extremely sophisticated’ exploit chewing at Cupertino’s walled garden Apple has shipped emergency updates to fix an actively exploited zero-day in its ImageIO framework, warning that the flaw has already been abused in targeted attacks.……

  • The Register: Google yet to take down ‘screenshot-grabbing’ Chrome VPN extension

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/21/freevpn_privacy_research/ Source: The Register Title: Google yet to take down ‘screenshot-grabbing’ Chrome VPN extension Feedly Summary: Researcher claims extension didn’t start out by exfiltrating info… while dev says its actions are ‘compliant’ Security boffins at Koi Security have warned of a shift in behavior of a popular Chrome VPN extension, FreeVPN.One, which recently…