Tag: vectors

  • Slashdot: Backdoor Infecting VPNs Used ‘Magic Packets’ For Stealth and Security

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/01/24/0039249/backdoor-infecting-vpns-used-magic-packets-for-stealth-and-security Source: Slashdot Title: Backdoor Infecting VPNs Used ‘Magic Packets’ For Stealth and Security Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** This text discusses a newly discovered backdoor malware named “J-Magic,” which targets enterprise VPNs running on Juniper Networks’ Junos OS. The backdoor employs advanced techniques, such as passive…

  • Hacker News: Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL

    Source URL: https://blog.vectorchord.ai/supercharge-vector-search-with-colbert-rerank-in-postgresql Source: Hacker News Title: Supercharge vector search with ColBERT rerank in PostgreSQL Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses ColBERT, an innovative method for vector search that enhances search accuracy by representing text as token-level multi-vectors rather than sentence-level embeddings. This approach retains nuanced information and improves…

  • Hacker News: Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly ‘sus’ sysctl in the XNU kernel

    Source URL: https://jprx.io/cve-2024-54507/ Source: Hacker News Title: Susctl CVE-2024-54507: A particularly ‘sus’ sysctl in the XNU kernel Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a security vulnerability (CVE-2024-54507) within the XNU kernel related to the sysctl interface, leading to an out-of-bounds read. This provides an important case study for software…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing Operator

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/23/introducing-operator/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing Operator Feedly Summary: Introducing Operator OpenAI released their “research preview" today of Operator, a cloud-based browser automation platform rolling out today to $200/month ChatGPT Pro subscribers. They’re calling this their first "agent". In the Operator announcement video Sam Altman defined that notoriously vague term like this:…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds One Known Exploited Vulnerability to Catalog

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/01/23/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-2020-11023 JQuery Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Vulnerability These types of vulnerabilities are frequent attack vectors for malicious cyber actors and pose significant risks…

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

    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…

  • Hacker News: Don’t use Session – Round 2

    Source URL: https://soatok.blog/2025/01/20/session-round-2/ Source: Hacker News Title: Don’t use Session – Round 2 Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight**: The text is a critical analysis of the security and cryptography protocol design of the Session messaging application compared to its peers. It discusses weaknesses in Session’s cryptographic practices, such…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/18/lessons-from-red-teaming/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products Feedly Summary: Lessons From Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products New paper from Microsoft describing their top eight lessons learned red teaming (deliberately seeking security vulnerabilities in) 100 different generative AI models and products over the past few years.…

  • Hacker News: Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver

    Source URL: https://neodyme.io/en/blog/bitlocker_screwed_without_a_screwdriver Source: Hacker News Title: Windows BitLocker – Screwed Without a Screwdriver Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses a security vulnerability dubbed “bitpixie” that affects BitLocker encryption on Windows devices, allowing unauthorized access to the encryption key without the need for physical disassembly of the machine. It…