Tag: security protocols
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The Register: GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/github_deepens_ties_with_elon/ Source: The Register Title: GitHub engineer claims team was ‘coerced’ to put Grok into Copilot Feedly Summary: Platform’s staffer complains security review was ‘rushed’ Microsoft-owned collaborative coding platform GitHub is deepening its ties with Elon Musk’s xAI, bringing early access to the company’s Grok Code Fast 1 large language model (LLM) into…
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The Register: Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/pentagon_ends_microsofts_use_of/ Source: The Register Title: Pentagon ends Microsoft’s use of China-based support staff for DoD cloud Feedly Summary: ‘It blows my mind,’ says SecDef The Pentagon has formally kiboshed Microsoft’s use of China-based employees to support Azure cloud services deployed by US government agencies, and it’s demanding Microsoft do more of its own…
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The Register: Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/anthropic_security_report_flags_rogue/ Source: The Register Title: Crims laud Claude to plant ransomware and fake IT expertise Feedly Summary: AI lowers the bar for cybercrime, Anthropic admits comment Anthropic, a maker of AI tools, says that AI tools are now commonly used to commit cybercrime and facilitate remote worker fraud.… AI Summary and Description: Yes…
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Slashdot: One Long Sentence is All It Takes To Make LLMs Misbehave
Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/08/27/1756253/one-long-sentence-is-all-it-takes-to-make-llms-misbehave?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: One Long Sentence is All It Takes To Make LLMs Misbehave Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant security research finding from Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 regarding vulnerabilities in large language models (LLMs). The researchers explored methods that allow users to bypass…
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The Register: The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/storm0501_ransomware_azure_teams/ Source: The Register Title: The intruder is in the house: Storm-0501 attacked Azure, stole data, demanded payment via Teams Feedly Summary: Don’t let it happen to you Storm-0501, a financially motivated cybercrime crew, recently broke into a large enterprise’s on-premises and cloud environments, ultimately exfiltrating and destroying data within the org’s Azure…
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Schneier on Security: We Are Still Unable to Secure LLMs from Malicious Inputs
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/08/we-are-still-unable-to-secure-llms-from-malicious-inputs.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: We Are Still Unable to Secure LLMs from Malicious Inputs Feedly Summary: Nice indirect prompt injection attack: Bargury’s attack starts with a poisoned document, which is shared to a potential victim’s Google Drive. (Bargury says a victim could have also uploaded a compromised file to their own…
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The Register: First AI-powered ransomware spotted, but it’s not active – yet
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/26/first_aipowered_ransomware_spotted_by/ Source: The Register Title: First AI-powered ransomware spotted, but it’s not active – yet Feedly Summary: Oh, look, a use case for OpenAI’s gpt-oss-20b model ESET malware researchers Anton Cherepanov and Peter Strycek have discovered what they describe as the “first known AI-powered ransomware," which they named PromptLock. … AI Summary and Description:…