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  • Hacker News: A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate

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    Source URL: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/win-encryption-france-rejects-backdoor-mandate Source: Hacker News Title: A Win for Encryption: France Rejects Backdoor Mandate Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The French National Assembly’s rejection of a proposal to undermine end-to-end encryption marks a significant victory for digital rights and privacy. The legislation threatened to introduce backdoor access to messaging platforms,…

  • Hacker News: Chunking Attacks on File Backup Services Using Content-Defined Chunking [pdf]

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    Source URL: https://www.daemonology.net/blog/chunking-attacks.pdf Source: Hacker News Title: Chunking Attacks on File Backup Services Using Content-Defined Chunking [pdf] Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text details various parameter-extraction attacks on file backup services utilizing content-defined chunking (CDC) techniques. The authors explore vulnerabilities associated with the use of user-specific secret parameters in CDC…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow: Information security and the Baseball Hall of Fame

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow-information-security-and-the-baseball-hall-of-fame/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow: Information security and the Baseball Hall of Fame Feedly Summary: In this week’s Threat Source newsletter, William pitches a fun comparison between baseball legend Ichiro Suzuki and the unsung heroes of information security, highlights newly released UAT-5918 research, and shares an exciting…

  • Alerts: Supply Chain Compromise of Third-Party GitHub Action, CVE-2025-30066

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2025/03/18/supply-chain-compromise-third-party-github-action-cve-2025-30066 Source: Alerts Title: Supply Chain Compromise of Third-Party GitHub Action, CVE-2025-30066 Feedly Summary: A popular third-party GitHub Action, tj-actions/changed-files (tracked as CVE-2025-30066), was compromised. This GitHub Action is designed to detect which files have changed in a pull request or commit. The supply chain compromise allows for information disclosure of secrets including,…

  • The Register: Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/17/doge_treasury/ Source: The Register Title: Court filing: DOGE aide broke Treasury policy by emailing unencrypted database Feedly Summary: More light shed on what went down with Marko Elez, thanks to NY AG and co’s lawsuit A now-former DOGE aide violated US Treasury policy by emailing an unencrypted database containing people’s private information to…

  • Microsoft Security Blog: StilachiRAT analysis: From system reconnaissance to cryptocurrency theft

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    Source URL: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/03/17/stilachirat-analysis-from-system-reconnaissance-to-cryptocurrency-theft/ Source: Microsoft Security Blog Title: StilachiRAT analysis: From system reconnaissance to cryptocurrency theft Feedly Summary: Microsoft Incident Response uncovered a novel remote access trojan (RAT) named StilachiRAT, which demonstrates sophisticated techniques to evade detection, persist in the target environment, and exfiltrate sensitive data. This blog primarily focuses on analysis of the WWStartupCtrl64.dll…