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  • The Register: Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/who_is_ddosing_you_competitors/ Source: The Register Title: Who is DDoSing you? Rivals, probably, or cheesed-off users Feedly Summary: Plus: ‘Largest-ever’ duff traffic tsunami clocks in at 5.6 Tbps In addition to Chinese spies invading organizations’ networks and ransomware crews locking up sensitive files, botnets blasting distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks can still cause a…

  • The Register: Oracle emits 603 patches, names one it wants you to worry about soon

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/23/oracle_patch_linux/ Source: The Register Title: Oracle emits 603 patches, names one it wants you to worry about soon Feedly Summary: Old flaws that keep causing trouble haunt Big Red Oracle has delivered its regular quarterly collection of patches: 603 in total, 318 for its own products, and another 285 for Linux code it…

  • Enterprise AI Trends: DeepSeek – The TikTok of LLMs?

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    Source URL: https://nextword.substack.com/p/deepseek-the-tiktok-of-llms Source: Enterprise AI Trends Title: DeepSeek – The TikTok of LLMs? Feedly Summary: What is DeepSeek’s strategy, and how everything might play out AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the recent release of DeepSeek’s open-source reasoning model, R1, highlighting its competitive pricing strategy compared to OpenAI’s models. It emphasizes…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/22/trading-inference-time-compute/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness Feedly Summary: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness Brand new research paper from OpenAI, exploring how inference-scaling “reasoning" models such as o1 might impact the search for improved security with respect to things like prompt injection. We conduct experiments on the…

  • Slashdot: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Phones Once Again Lean Heavily on AI

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    Source URL: https://mobile.slashdot.org/story/25/01/22/2135233/samsungs-galaxy-s25-phones-once-again-lean-heavily-on-ai?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Samsung’s Galaxy S25 Phones Once Again Lean Heavily on AI Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Samsung has introduced the Galaxy S25 series, enhancing the smartphones with advanced AI capabilities and large language models (LLMs) such as Google’s Gemini and its own Bixby. New features, including cross-app…

  • Alerts: CISA and FBI Release Advisory on How Threat Actors Chained Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Service Applications

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/22/cisa-and-fbi-release-advisory-how-threat-actors-chained-vulnerabilities-ivanti-cloud-service Source: Alerts Title: CISA and FBI Release Advisory on How Threat Actors Chained Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Service Applications Feedly Summary: CISA, in partnership with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), released Threat Actors Chained Vulnerabilities in Ivanti Cloud Service Applications. This advisory was crafted in response to active exploitation of vulnerabilities—CVE-2024-8963,…

  • OpenAI : Trading inference-time compute for adversarial robustness

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/trading-inference-time-compute-for-adversarial-robustness Source: OpenAI Title: Trading inference-time compute for adversarial robustness Feedly Summary: Trading Inference-Time Compute for Adversarial Robustness AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text explores the trade-offs between inference-time computing demands and adversarial robustness within AI systems, particularly relevant in the context of machine learning and AI security. This topic holds…

  • The Cloudflare Blog: Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4

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    Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/ddos-threat-report-for-2024-q4/ Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Record-breaking 5.6 Tbps DDoS attack and global DDoS trends for 2024 Q4 Feedly Summary: 2024 ended with a bang. Cloudflare mitigated another record-breaking DDoS attack peaking at 5.6 Tbps. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The Cloudflare DDoS Threat Report for Q4 of 2024 provides an in-depth…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/01/16/new-star-blizzard-spear-phishing-campaign-targets-whatsapp-accounts/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: New Star Blizzard spear-phishing campaign targets WhatsApp accounts Feedly Summary: In mid-November 2024, Microsoft Threat Intelligence observed the Russian threat actor we track as Star Blizzard sending their typical targets spear-phishing messages, this time offering the supposed opportunity to join a WhatsApp group. This is the first…