Tag: scanning
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Cisco Talos Blog: Malicious QR codes
Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/malicious_qr_codes/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Malicious QR codes Feedly Summary: QR codes are disproportionately effective at bypassing most anti-spam filters, as most filters are not designed to recognize that a QR code is present in an image and decode the QR code. According to Talos’ data, roughly 60% of all email containing…
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Hacker News: Bjorn: A powerful network scanning and offensive security tool for Raspberry Pi
Source URL: https://github.com/infinition/Bjorn Source: Hacker News Title: Bjorn: A powerful network scanning and offensive security tool for Raspberry Pi Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes Bjorn, a sophisticated and autonomous network scanning and vulnerability assessment tool designed for educational purposes. It highlights its capabilities such as network scanning, vulnerability…
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Hacker News: Defending the Tor network: Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor
Source URL: https://blog.torproject.org/defending-tor-mitigating-IP-spoofing/ Source: Hacker News Title: Defending the Tor network: Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text outlines a recent coordinated IP spoofing attack targeting the Tor network. It describes how relay operators faced abuse complaints due to spoofed connections that mimicked unauthorized port scanning,…
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Schneier on Security: AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/ais-discovering-vulnerabilities.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: I’ve been writing about the possibility of AIs automatically discovering code vulnerabilities since at least 2018. This is an ongoing area of research: AIs doing source code scanning, AIs finding zero-days in the wild, and everything in between. The AIs aren’t very…
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Anchore: Grype Support for Azure Linux 3 released
Source URL: https://anchore.com/blog/grype-support-for-azure-linux-3-released/ Source: Anchore Title: Grype Support for Azure Linux 3 released Feedly Summary: On September 26, 2024 the OSS team at Anchore released general support for Azure Linux 3, Microsoft’s new cloud-focused Linux distribution. This blog post will share some of the technical details of what goes into supporting a new Linux distribution…
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Anchore: Who watches the watchmen? Introducing yardstick validate
Source URL: https://anchore.com/blog/who-watches-the-watchmen-introducing-yardstick-validate/ Source: Anchore Title: Who watches the watchmen? Introducing yardstick validate Feedly Summary: Grype scans images for vulnerabilities, but who tests Grype? If Grype does or doesn’t find a given vulnerability in a given artifact, is it right? In this blog post, we’ll dive into yardstick, an open-source tool by Anchore for comparing…