Tag: security threats

Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/swiss_malware_qr/ Source: The Register Title: Swiss cheesed off as postal service used to spread malware Feedly Summary: QR codes arrive via an age-old delivery system Switzerland’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has issued an alert about malware being spread via the country’s postal service.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The National Cyber…

The Register: Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you’d expect

Nov 16, 2024

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/chatbots_run_robots/ Source: The Register Title: Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you’d expect Feedly Summary: LLM-controlled droids easily jailbroken to perform mayhem, researchers warn Science fiction author Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics, and you’d never know it from the behavior of today’s robots or those making them.… AI Summary…

Cloud Blog: Cloud CISO Perspectives: The high security cost of legacy tech

Nov 14, 2024

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/cloud-ciso-perspectives-the-high-security-cost-of-legacy-tech/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Cloud CISO Perspectives: The high security cost of legacy tech Feedly Summary: Welcome to the first Cloud CISO Perspectives for November 2024. Today I’m joined by Andy Wen, Google Cloud’s senior director of product management for Google Workspace, to discuss a new Google survey into the high security…

Cisco Talos Blog: New PXA Stealer targets government and education sectors for sensitive information

Nov 14, 2024

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Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/new-pxa-stealer/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: New PXA Stealer targets government and education sectors for sensitive information Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos discovered a new information stealing campaign operated by a Vietnamese-speaking threat actor targeting government and education entities in Europe and Asia. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a threat…

Hacker News: Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation

Nov 14, 2024

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Source URL: https://snyk.io/blog/abusing-ubuntu-root-privilege-escalation/ Source: Hacker News Title: Abusing Ubuntu 24.04 features for root privilege escalation Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text presents a detailed case study of a vulnerability exploitation chain discovered in Ubuntu 24.04, demonstrating a privilege escalation from a default user to root through the improper handling of…

Cloud Blog: Emerging Threats: Cybersecurity Forecast 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/cybersecurity-forecast-2025/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Emerging Threats: Cybersecurity Forecast 2025 Feedly Summary: Every November, we start sharing forward-looking insights on threats and other cybersecurity topics to help organizations and defenders prepare for the year ahead. The Cybersecurity Forecast 2025 report, available today, plays a big role in helping us accomplish this mission. This…

Cloud Blog: Emerging Threats: Cybersecurity Forecast 2025

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/emerging-threats-cybersecurity-forecast-2025/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Emerging Threats: Cybersecurity Forecast 2025 Feedly Summary: Every November, we start sharing forward-looking insights on threats and other cybersecurity topics to help organizations and defenders prepare for the year ahead. The Cybersecurity Forecast 2025 report, available today, plays a big role in helping us accomplish this mission. This…

Alerts: CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

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Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/11/12/cisa-adds-five-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Five Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added five new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2021-26086 Atlassian Jira Server and Data Center Path Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2014-2120 Cisco Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability CVE-2021-41277 Metabase GeoJSON API Local…

The Register: Admins can give thanks this November for dollops of Microsoft patches

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