Tag: Users

Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/24/2356212/two-major-ai-coding-tools-wiped-out-user-data-after-making-cascading-mistakes Source: Slashdot Title: Two Major AI Coding Tools Wiped Out User Data After Making Cascading Mistakes Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incidents involving AI coding assistants Google Gemini CLI and Replit highlight significant risks associated with “vibe coding,” where users rely on AI to execute code without closely…

The Register: Freelance dev shop Toptal caught serving malware after GitHub account break-in

Jul 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/25/toptal_malware_attack/ Source: The Register Title: Freelance dev shop Toptal caught serving malware after GitHub account break-in Feedly Summary: Malicious code lurking in over 5,000 downloads, says Socket researcher Developer freelancing platform Toptal has been inadvertently spreading malicious code after attackers broke into its systems and began distributing malware through developer accounts.… AI Summary…

Wired: A Premium Luggage Service’s Web Bugs Exposed the Travel Plans of Every User—Including Diplomats

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Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/luggage-service-web-bugs-exposed-travel-plans-users-diplomats-airportr/ Source: Wired Title: A Premium Luggage Service’s Web Bugs Exposed the Travel Plans of Every User—Including Diplomats Feedly Summary: Security flaws in Airportr, a door-to-door luggage checking service used by 10 airlines, let hackers access user data and even gain privileges that would have let them redirect or steal luggage. AI Summary…

Cloud Blog: New Cluster Director features: Simplified GUI, managed Slurm, advanced observability

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Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/managed-slurm-and-other-cluster-director-enhancements/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: New Cluster Director features: Simplified GUI, managed Slurm, advanced observability Feedly Summary: In April, we released Cluster Director, a unified management plane that makes deploying and managing large-scale AI infrastructure simpler and more intuitive than ever before, putting the power of an AI supercomputer at your fingertips. Today,…

The Register: Coyote malware abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation to hunt banking creds

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/24/coyote_malware_microsoft_uia/ Source: The Register Title: Coyote malware abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation to hunt banking creds Feedly Summary: Some coyotes hunt squirrels, this one hunts users’ financial apps A new variant of the Coyote banking trojan abuses Microsoft’s UI Automation (UIA), making it the first reported malware to use UIA for credential theft.… AI…

Slashdot: VMware Prevents Some Perpetual License Holders From Downloading Patches

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Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/24/0125217/vmware-prevents-some-perpetual-license-holders-from-downloading-patches?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: VMware Prevents Some Perpetual License Holders From Downloading Patches Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights significant security implications for customers of Broadcom’s VMware business due to limited access to security patches for users with perpetual licenses lacking current support contracts. This impacts their security…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/24/github-spark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark Feedly Summary: GitHub Spark was released in public preview yesterday. It’s GitHub’s implementation of the prompt-to-app pattern also seen in products like Claude Artifacts, Lovable, Vercel v0, Val Town Townie and Fly.io’s Phoenix New. I wrote about Spark back…

Cisco Talos Blog: Bloomberg Comdb2 null pointer dereference and denial-of-service vulnerabilities

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Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/bloomberg-comdb2-null-pointer-dereference-and-denial-of-service-vulnerabilities/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Bloomberg Comdb2 null pointer dereference and denial-of-service vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: Cisco Talos’ Vulnerability Discovery & Research team recently disclosed five vulnerabilities in Bloomberg Comdb2. Comdb2 is an open source, high-availability database developed by Bloomberg. It supports features such as clustering, transactions, snapshots, and isolation. The implementation of the…

The Register: Compromised Amazon Q extension told AI to delete everything – and it shipped

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