Tag: security concerns

  • CSA: Why Is Google Ending Support for Less Secure Apps?

    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/app-specific-passwords-origins-functionality-security-risks-and-mitigation Source: CSA Title: Why Is Google Ending Support for Less Secure Apps? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s announcement to terminate support for Less Secure Apps (LSAs) highlights the importance of App-Specific Passwords (ASPs) and the lingering security concerns they carry. This transition marks a significant improvement in user…

  • Hacker News: The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks

    Source URL: https://www.theverge.com/2024/10/14/24269741/internet-archive-online-read-only-data-breach-outage Source: Hacker News Title: The Internet Archive is back as a read-only service after cyberattacks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Internet Archive has resumed operations in a limited read-only capacity following a cyberattack that resulted in a data breach and DDoS attack. This incident highlights ongoing concerns…

  • Wired: The Hottest Startups in Paris in 2024

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/the-hottest-startups-in-paris-in-2024/ Source: Wired Title: The Hottest Startups in Paris in 2024 Feedly Summary: The French capital has become the home of Europe’s growing AI industry—but alongside giants like Mistral are startups building EV charging infrastructure and trying to revolutionize social media. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the burgeoning AI…

  • The Register: Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/china_quantum_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Crypto-apocalypse soon? Chinese researchers find a potential quantum attack on classical encryption Feedly Summary: With an off-the-shelf D-Wave machine Chinese researchers claim they have found a way to use D-Wave’s quantum annealing systems to develop a promising attack on classical encryption.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Hacker News: Bug, $50K+ in bounties: how Zendesk left a backdoor in companies

    Source URL: https://gist.github.com/hackermondev/68ec8ed145fcee49d2f5e2b9d2cf2e52 Source: Hacker News Title: Bug, $50K+ in bounties: how Zendesk left a backdoor in companies Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text narrates the journey of a young programmer discovering a significant security vulnerability in Zendesk, which could potentially expose sensitive customer support tickets for multiple Fortune 500…

  • The Register: US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/11/us_lawmakers_salt_typhoon/ Source: The Register Title: US lawmakers seek answers on alleged Salt Typhoon breach of telecom giants Feedly Summary: Cyberspies abusing a backdoor? Groundbreaking Lawmakers are demanding answers about earlier news reports that China’s Salt Typhoon cyberspies breached US telecommunications companies Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies, and hacked their wiretapping systems. They also…

  • The Register: Internet Archive leaks user info and succumbs to DDoS

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/10/internet_archive_ddos_data_leak/ Source: The Register Title: Internet Archive leaks user info and succumbs to DDoS Feedly Summary: 31 million users’ usernames, email addresses and salted-encrypted passwords are out there The Internet Archive had a bad day on the infosec front, after being DDoSed and exposing user data.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Threatens To Ban Users Who Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/09/18/1858224/openai-threatens-to-ban-users-who-probe-its-strawberry-ai-models?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Threatens To Ban Users Who Probe Its ‘Strawberry’ AI Models Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses OpenAI’s recent efforts to obscure the workings of its “Strawberry” AI model family, particularly the o1-preview and o1-mini models, which are equipped with new reasoning abilities. OpenAI…

  • Slashdot: OpenAI Acknowledges New Models Increase Risk of Misuse To Create Bioweapons

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/24/09/13/1842216/openai-acknowledges-new-models-increase-risk-of-misuse-to-create-bioweapons Source: Slashdot Title: OpenAI Acknowledges New Models Increase Risk of Misuse To Create Bioweapons Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI has acknowledged that its latest models significantly increase the risk of AI being misused for creating biological weapons. The new models, known as o1, have been rated with a…