Tag: security vulnerability
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Hacker News: Abusing Git branch names to compromise a PyPI package
Source URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/1001215/ Source: Hacker News Title: Abusing Git branch names to compromise a PyPI package Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incident highlights a security vulnerability related to automated processes in GitHub that can lead to the compromise of Python packages on PyPI. Particularly, the use of a flawed script…
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The Register: OpenWrt orders router firmware updates after supply chain attack scare
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/09/openwrt_firmware_vulnerabilities/ Source: The Register Title: OpenWrt orders router firmware updates after supply chain attack scare Feedly Summary: A couple of bugs lead to a potentially bad time OpenWrt users should upgrade their images to the same version to protect themselves from a possible supply chain attack reported to the open source Wi-Fi router…
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Hacker News: Mitigating WiFi deauth attacks with Ubiquiti Protected Management Frames (2022)
Source URL: https://blog.steveendow.com/2022/05/mitigating-wifi-deauth-attack-with.html Source: Hacker News Title: Mitigating WiFi deauth attacks with Ubiquiti Protected Management Frames (2022) Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses WiFi deauthentication attacks and how to mitigate them using Protected Management Frames (PMF) in Ubiquiti Unifi systems. It highlights the vulnerability of standard WiFi networks to…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/a-warning-about-tiktoken/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Feedly Summary: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Tom MacWright warns that OpenAI’s tiktoken Python library has a surprising performance profile: it’s superlinear with the length of input, meaning someone could potentially denial-of-service you by sending you…
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The Register: Fortinet patches VPN app flaw that could give rogue users, malware a privilege boost
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/14/fortinet_vpn_authentication_bypass_bug/ Source: The Register Title: Fortinet patches VPN app flaw that could give rogue users, malware a privilege boost Feedly Summary: Plus a bonus hard-coded local API key A now-patched, high-severity bug in Fortinet’s FortiClient VPN application potentially allows a low-privilege rogue user or malware on a vulnerable Windows system to gain higher…
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The Register: HTTP your way into Citrix’s Virtual Apps and Desktops with fresh exploit code
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/12/http_citrix_vuln/ Source: The Register Title: HTTP your way into Citrix’s Virtual Apps and Desktops with fresh exploit code Feedly Summary: ‘Once again, we’ve lost a little more faith in the internet,’ researcher says Researchers are publicizing a proof of concept (PoC) exploit for what they’re calling an unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability…