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  • The Register: Cybercriminals pwn 850k+ Americans healthcare data

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/18/850k_americans_affected_by_medical/ Source: The Register Title: Cybercriminals pwn 850k+ Americans healthcare data Feedly Summary: Three US medical centers fess up to serious breaches Cybercriminals broke in and stole nearly a million Americans’ data in the space of a week, after three digital burglaries at healthcare providers.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • Cloud Blog: How to secure your remote MCP server on Google Cloud

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/how-to-secure-your-remote-mcp-server-on-google-cloud/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How to secure your remote MCP server on Google Cloud Feedly Summary: As enterprises increasingly adopt model context protocol (MCP) to extend capabilities of AI models to better integrate with external tools, databases, and APIs, it becomes even more important to ensure secure MCP deployment.  MCP unlocks new…

  • The Register: Ruh-roh. DDR5 memory vulnerable to new Rowhammer attack

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/17/ddr5_dram_rowhammer/ Source: The Register Title: Ruh-roh. DDR5 memory vulnerable to new Rowhammer attack Feedly Summary: Google and ETH Zurich found problems with AMD/SK Hynix combo, will probe other hardware Researchers from Google and Swiss university ETH Zurich have found a new class of Rowhammer vulnerability that could allow attackers to access info stored…

  • Wired: A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/a-dhs-data-hub-exposed-sensitive-intel-to-thousands-of-unauthorized-users/ Source: Wired Title: A DHS Data Hub Exposed Sensitive Intel to Thousands of Unauthorized Users Feedly Summary: A misconfigured platform used by the Department of Homeland Security left national security information—including some related to the surveillance of Americans—accessible to thousands of people. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a…

  • Cloud Blog: New DNS Armor can help detect, mitigate domain name system risks

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    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/identity-security/introducing-dns-armor-to-mitigate-domain-name-system-risks/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New DNS Armor can help detect, mitigate domain name system risks Feedly Summary: The Domain Name System (DNS) is like the internet’s phone book, automatically and near-instantly translating requests for websites and mobile apps from their domain names to the Internet Protocol addresses of the actual computers hosting…

  • 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…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Supporting Rowhammer research to protect the DRAM ecosystem

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    Source URL: http://security.googleblog.com/2025/09/supporting-rowhammer-research-to.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Supporting Rowhammer research to protect the DRAM ecosystem Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the Rowhammer vulnerability in DRAM memory, which allows attackers to manipulate memory cells leading to unauthorized access or data corruption. It highlights the inadequacy of current mitigations…

  • 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: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/12/google_cloud_mod_contract/ Source: The Register Title: Google lands £400M MoD contract for secure UK cloud services Feedly Summary: Deal promises sovereign datacenters, AI, and cybersecurity to strengthen communication links with US The UK’s Ministry of Defence has signed a £400 million ($540 million) contract with Google sovereign cloud to support security and analytics workloads.……