Tag: security measure

Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/09/microsoft-still-uses-rc4.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Microsoft Still Uses RC4 Feedly Summary: Senator Ron Wyden has asked the Federal Trade Commission to investigate Microsoft over its continued use of the RC4 encryption algorithm. The letter talks about a hacker technique called Kerberoasting, that exploits the Kerberos authentication system. AI Summary and Description: Yes…

The Register: Overmind bags $6M to predict deployment blast radius before the explosion

Sep 16, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/16/overmind_interview/ Source: The Register Title: Overmind bags $6M to predict deployment blast radius before the explosion Feedly Summary: Startup slots into CI/CD pipelines to warn engineers when a change could wreck production Exclusive How big could the blast radius be if that change you’re about to push to production goes catastrophically wrong? Overmind…

Unit 42: The Risks of Code Assistant LLMs: Harmful Content, Misuse and Deception

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Source URL: https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/code-assistant-llms/ Source: Unit 42 Title: The Risks of Code Assistant LLMs: Harmful Content, Misuse and Deception Feedly Summary: We examine security weaknesses in LLM code assistants. Issues like indirect prompt injection and model misuse are prevalent across platforms. The post The Risks of Code Assistant LLMs: Harmful Content, Misuse and Deception appeared first…

The Register: Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/ransomware_recovery_codes_plaintext/ Source: The Register Title: Careless engineer stored recovery codes in plaintext, got whole org pwned Feedly Summary: Cautionary tale from the recent SonicWall attacks Failing to encrypt sensitive data leaves you wide open to attack. During the recent SonicWall attack spree, intruders bypassed multi-factor authentication (MFA) in at least one case, because…

AWS News Blog: AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-named-as-a-leader-in-2025-gartner-magic-quadrant-for-cloud-native-application-platforms-and-container-management/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS named as a Leader in 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms and Container Management Feedly Summary: AWS was named as a Leader in the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Native Application Platforms in two consecutive years positioned highest on “Ability to Execute", and for…

The Register: ‘Powerful but dangerous’ full MCP support beta for ChatGPT arrives

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/full_mcp_support_in_beta_chatgpt/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Powerful but dangerous’ full MCP support beta for ChatGPT arrives Feedly Summary: ‘Wow this is dangerous’ says Django dev, while others call feature a ‘game-changer’ OpenAI has added a beta of Developer mode to ChatGPT, enabling full read and write support for MCP (Model Context Protocol) tools, though…

The Register: Former FinWise employee may have accessed nearly 700K customer records

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/finwise_insider_data_breach/ Source: The Register Title: Former FinWise employee may have accessed nearly 700K customer records Feedly Summary: Bank says incident went undetected for over a year before discovery in June A US fintech biz is writing to nearly 700,000 customers because a former employee may have accessed or acquired their data after leaving…

The Register: Nork snoops whip up fake South Korean military ID with help from ChatGPT

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/15/north_korea_chatgpt_fake_id/ Source: The Register Title: Nork snoops whip up fake South Korean military ID with help from ChatGPT Feedly Summary: Kimsuky gang proves that with the right wording, you can turn generative AI into a counterfeit factory North Korean spies used ChatGPT to generate a fake military ID for use in an espionage…

Slashdot: UK’s Data Watchdog Warns Students Are Breaching Their Schools’ IT Systems

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