Tag: source

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Find the helpers

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/find-the-helpers/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Find the helpers Feedly Summary: Bill discusses how to find ‘the helpers’ and the importance of knowledge sharing. Plus, there’s a lot to talk about in our latest vulnerability roundup. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This edition of the Threat Source newsletter emphasizes the importance of…

  • The Register: Russia’s Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/russia_star_blizzard_whatsapp/ Source: The Register Title: Russia’s Star Blizzard phishing crew caught targeting WhatsApp accounts Feedly Summary: FSB cyberspies venture into a new app for espionage, Microsoft says Star Blizzard, a prolific phishing crew backed by the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB), conducted a new campaign aiming to compromise WhatsApp accounts and gain access…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting gwern

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/16/gwern/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting gwern Feedly Summary: […] much of the point of a model like o1 is not to deploy it, but to generate training data for the next model. Every problem that an o1 solves is now a training data point for an o3 (eg. any o1 session…

  • Slashdot: AI Slashes Google’s Code Migration Time By Half

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/16/1810253/ai-slashes-googles-code-migration-time-by-half?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Slashes Google’s Code Migration Time By Half Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google has leveraged AI tools to significantly reduce the time required for large-scale software migration, cutting the process in half through the use of large language models. This innovation is particularly relevant for…

  • Hacker News: Let’s Encrypt is offering 6-day and IP address certs

    Source URL: https://letsencrypt.org/2025/01/16/6-day-and-ip-certs/ Source: Hacker News Title: Let’s Encrypt is offering 6-day and IP address certs Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the introduction of short-lived certificates in the Web PKI ecosystem to enhance security. It emphasizes how these certificates, with lifetimes as short as six days, can mitigate…

  • The Register: TSMC plans to have 1.6nm chips in ‘volume production’ by 2026

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/16/tsmc_says_16nm_chips_volume_2026/ Source: The Register Title: TSMC plans to have 1.6nm chips in ‘volume production’ by 2026 Feedly Summary: You’ve got to spend money – like $36 billion+ – to make, er, AI chips TSMC is bumping capital expenditure in 2025 to between $38 billion and $42 billion in anticipation of scooping up more…

  • Alerts: CISA and Partners Release Call to Action to Close the National Software Understanding Gap

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/16/cisa-and-partners-release-call-action-close-national-software-understanding-gap Source: Alerts Title: CISA and Partners Release Call to Action to Close the National Software Understanding Gap Feedly Summary: Today, CISA—in partnership with the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OUSD R&E), and the National Security Agency (NSA)—published Closing the Software…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/16/cisa-adds-one-known-exploited-vulnerability-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added one new vulnerability to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-50603 Aviatrix Controllers OS Command Injection Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks…

  • Hacker News: Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: We don’t care about professional coders anymore

    Source URL: https://www.semafor.com/article/01/15/2025/replit-ceo-on-ai-breakthroughs-we-dont-care-about-professional-coders-anymore Source: Hacker News Title: Replit CEO on AI breakthroughs: We don’t care about professional coders anymore Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Replit’s recent developments in AI, particularly the launch of its new tool “Agent,” which can create software applications from natural language prompts. The company’s…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Patches Windows To Eliminate Secure Boot Bypass Threat

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/01/16/1755240/microsoft-patches-windows-to-eliminate-secure-boot-bypass-threat?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Patches Windows To Eliminate Secure Boot Bypass Threat Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft has addressed a significant Windows vulnerability (CVE-2024-7344) that permitted attackers to bypass Secure Boot, which serves as a crucial safeguard against firmware infections. This vulnerability was present for over seven months…