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  • The Register: EV charging biz zaps customers with data leak scare

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/23/dcs_data_breach/ Source: The Register Title: EV charging biz zaps customers with data leak scare Feedly Summary: Names, emails unplugged in DCS support snafu – but ‘billing is safe’ An electric vehicle charging point provider is telling users that their data may be compromised, following a recent security “incident" at a service provider.… AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Why AI systems might never be secure

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/23/why-ai-systems-might-never-be-secure/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Why AI systems might never be secure Feedly Summary: Why AI systems might never be secure The Economist have a new piece out about LLM security, with this headline and subtitle: Why AI systems might never be secure A “lethal trifecta” of conditions opens them to abuse…

  • The Register: FOMO? Brit banking biz rolls out AI tools, talks up security

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/22/lloyds_data_ai_deployment/ Source: The Register Title: FOMO? Brit banking biz rolls out AI tools, talks up security Feedly Summary: Lloyds Data and AI lead doesn’t want devs downloading models from the likes of Hugging Face – too risky Lloyds Banking Group is leaning into 21st century tech – yet trying to do so in…

  • Slashdot: Cyberattack Delays Flights at Several of Europe’s Major Airports

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/2119232/cyberattack-delays-flights-at-several-of-europes-major-airports?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cyberattack Delays Flights at Several of Europe’s Major Airports Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a cyberattack that disrupted check-in and boarding systems across several major European airports, exposing vulnerabilities in these security systems. Despite limited impact on travelers, the incident highlights the ongoing…

  • Slashdot: Self-Replicating Worm Affected Several Hundred NPM Packages, Including CrowdStrike’s

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/09/20/0542237/self-replicating-worm-affected-several-hundred-npm-packages-including-crowdstrikes Source: Slashdot Title: Self-Replicating Worm Affected Several Hundred NPM Packages, Including CrowdStrike’s Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Shai-Hulud malware campaign has affected numerous npm packages, including those maintained by CrowdStrike, via the injection of malicious scripts designed to steal developer credentials and exfiltrate sensitive information. The campaign highlights…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Magistral 1.2

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/19/magistral/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Magistral 1.2 Feedly Summary: Mistral quietly released two new models yesterday: Magistral Small 1.2 (Apache 2.0, 96.1 GB on Hugging Face) and Magistral Medium 1.2 (not open weights same as Mistral’s other “medium" models.) Despite being described as "minor updates" to the Magistral 1.1 models these have…

  • The Register: ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/how_to_trick_chatgpt_agents/ Source: The Register Title: ChatGPT joins human league, now solves CAPTCHAs for the right prompt Feedly Summary: Could this bot-prevention technique now be obsolete? ChatGPT can be tricked via cleverly worded prompts to violate its own policies and solve CAPTCHA puzzles, potentially making this human-proving security mechanism obsolete, researchers say.… AI Summary…

  • The Register: Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/cisa_ivanti_bugs_exploited/ Source: The Register Title: Ivanti EPMM holes let miscreants plant shady listeners, CISA says Feedly Summary: Unnamed org compromised with two malware sets An unknown attacker has abused a couple of flaws in Ivanti Endpoint Manager Mobile (EPMM) and deployed two sets of malware against an unnamed organization, according to the US…

  • The Register: One token to pwn them all: Entra ID bug could have granted access to every tenant

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/19/microsoft_entra_id_bug/ Source: The Register Title: One token to pwn them all: Entra ID bug could have granted access to every tenant Feedly Summary: Until Microsoft lobbed it into a virtual volcano A security researcher claims to have found a flaw that could have handed him the keys to almost every Entra ID tenant…