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  • Slashdot: ExpressVPN Gets Faster and More Secure, Thanks To Rust

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/02/26/2133246/expressvpn-gets-faster-and-more-secure-thanks-to-rust Source: Slashdot Title: ExpressVPN Gets Faster and More Secure, Thanks To Rust Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses significant updates to ExpressVPN’s Lightway codebase, which has transitioned from C to Rust, enhancing both speed and security. Notably, the updated protocol utilizes ML-KEM for post-quantum encryption, addressing emerging…

  • Hacker News: Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal

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    Source URL: https://soatok.blog/2025/02/18/reviewing-the-cryptography-used-by-signal/ Source: Hacker News Title: Reviewing the Cryptography Used by Signal Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the importance of secure messaging apps, particularly focusing on Signal and its cryptography. It critiques the use of alternative privacy tools like VPNs and highlights the need for credible security…

  • Rekt: zkLend – Rekt

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    Source URL: https://www.rekt.news/ Source: Rekt Title: zkLend – Rekt Feedly Summary: A rounding error exploit bled $9.57M from zkLend vaults on Starknet. After Railgun showed them the door, the attacker ignored their Valentine’s Day bounty deadline, letting the stolen funds sit idle. Same operator behind EraLend’s 2023 hack? On-chain evidence suggests yes. AI Summary and…

  • Slashdot: Hackers Call Current AI Security Testing ‘Bullshit’

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/02/11/191240/hackers-call-current-ai-security-testing-bullshit?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Hackers Call Current AI Security Testing ‘Bullshit’ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The DEF CON conference has highlighted serious flaws in current AI security practices, specifically criticizing the limitations of red teaming for identifying vulnerabilities in AI systems. Researchers advocate for a new framework for documenting…

  • Cloud Blog: CVE-2023-6080: A Case Study on Third-Party Installer Abuse

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cve-2023-6080-third-party-installer-abuse/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: CVE-2023-6080: A Case Study on Third-Party Installer Abuse Feedly Summary: Written By: Jacob Paullus, Daniel McNamara, Jake Rawlins, Steven Karschnia Executive Summary Mandiant exploited flaws in the Microsoft Software Installer (MSI) repair action of Lakeside Software’s SysTrack installer to obtain arbitrary code execution. An attacker with low-privilege access…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Open WebUI

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/27/open-webui/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Open WebUI Feedly Summary: Open WebUI I tried out this open source (MIT licensed, JavaScript and Python) localhost UI for accessing LLMs today for the first time. It’s very nicely done. I ran it with uvx like this: uvx –python 3.11 open-webui serve On first launch it…