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  • Slashdot: Google’s ‘AI Overview’ Pointed Him to a Customer Number. It Was a Scam

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    Source URL: https://yro.slashdot.org/story/25/08/18/0223228/googles-ai-overview-pointed-him-to-a-customer-number-it-was-a-scam?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google’s ‘AI Overview’ Pointed Him to a Customer Number. It Was a Scam Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a scam where a real estate developer was tricked into providing credit card information to an impersonator posing as a customer service representative for a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/23/oss-rebuild/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last Feedly Summary: Introducing OSS Rebuild: Open Source, Rebuilt to Last Major news on the Reproducible Builds front: the Google Security team have announced OSS Rebuild, their project to provide build attestations for open source packages released through the NPM,…

  • Rekt: Ionic Money – Rekt

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    Source URL: https://www.rekt.news/ionic-money-rekt Source: Rekt Title: Ionic Money – Rekt Feedly Summary: Fake LBTC, real losses. Social engineering artists convinced Ionic Money on Mode Network to accept counterfeit collateral, walked away with $6.9M, and left sister protocols holding toxic bags. Previously exploited twice as Midas – third time rekt’s the charm. AI Summary and Description:…

  • Slashdot: Mozilla Adapts ‘Fakespot’ Into an AI-Detecting Firefox Add-on

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/02/02/2156241/mozilla-adapts-fakespot-into-an-ai-detecting-firefox-add-on?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Mozilla Adapts ‘Fakespot’ Into an AI-Detecting Firefox Add-on Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Mozilla’s Fakespot Deepfake Detector is a free Firefox add-on that identifies whether online text is generated by AI or written by a human. This tool employs Mozilla’s proprietary engine and promises to enhance…

  • CSA: How Does Zero Trust Transform Privileged Access Management?

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/zero-trust-approach-to-privileged-access-management Source: CSA Title: How Does Zero Trust Transform Privileged Access Management? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text emphasizes the significance of adopting a zero trust mindset for Privileged Access Management (PAM), highlighting crucial security strategies like continuous verification, adaptive authentication, and just-in-time access. It addresses the challenges posed…

  • 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…

  • Schneier on Security: Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/01/biden-signs-new-cybersecurity-order.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Biden Signs New Cybersecurity Order Feedly Summary: President Biden has signed a new cybersecurity order. It has a bunch of provisions, most notably using the US governments procurement power to improve cybersecurity practices industry-wide. Some details: The core of the executive order is an array of mandates…