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  • Wired: Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/encryption-made-for-police-and-military-radios-may-be-easily-cracked-researchers-find/ Source: Wired Title: Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked Feedly Summary: Researchers found that an encryption algorithm likely used by law enforcement and special forces can have weaknesses that could allow an attacker to listen in. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights a critical…

  • The Register: CISA releases malware analysis for Sharepoint Server attack

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/07/cisa_releases_malware_analysis/ Source: The Register Title: CISA releases malware analysis for Sharepoint Server attack Feedly Summary: Indications of compromise and Sigma rules report for your security scanners amid ongoing ‘ToolShell’ blitz CISA has published a malware analysis report with compromise indicators and Sigma rules for “ToolShell" attacks targeting specific Microsoft SharePoint Server versions.… AI…

  • The Register: Vibe coding tool Cursor’s MCP implementation allows persistent code execution

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/mcpoison_bug_abuses_cursor_mcp/ Source: The Register Title: Vibe coding tool Cursor’s MCP implementation allows persistent code execution Feedly Summary: More evidence that AI expands the attack surface Check Point researchers uncovered a remote code execution bug in popular vibe-coding AI tool Cursor that could allow an attacker to poison developer environments by secretly modifying a…

  • The Register: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/perplexity_vexed_by_cloudflares_claims/ Source: The Register Title: Perplexity vexed by Cloudflare’s claims its bots are bad Feedly Summary: AI search biz insists its content capture and summarization is okay because someone asked for it AI search biz Perplexity claims that Cloudflare has mischaracterized its site crawlers as malicious bots and that the content delivery network…

  • The Register: Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/05/millions_of_dell_pc_with/ Source: The Register Title: Patch now: Millions of Dell PCs with Broadcom chips vulnerable to attack Feedly Summary: Psst, wanna steal someone’s biometrics? black hat Critical security flaws in Broadcom chips used in more than 100 models of Dell computers could allow attackers to take over tens of millions of users’ devices,…

  • OpenAI : Estimating worst case frontier risks of open weight LLMs

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/estimating-worst-case-frontier-risks-of-open-weight-llms Source: OpenAI Title: Estimating worst case frontier risks of open weight LLMs Feedly Summary: In this paper, we study the worst-case frontier risks of releasing gpt-oss. We introduce malicious fine-tuning (MFT), where we attempt to elicit maximum capabilities by fine-tuning gpt-oss to be as capable as possible in two domains: biology and…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: ReVault! When your SoC turns against you…

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/revault-when-your-soc-turns-against-you/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: ReVault! When your SoC turns against you… Feedly Summary: Talos reported 5 vulnerabilities to Broadcom and Dell affecting both the ControlVault3 Firmware and its associated Windows APIs that we are calling “ReVault”.  AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The report details significant vulnerabilities discovered in Dell’s ControlVault3…

  • The Register: SonicWall investigates ‘cyber incidents,’ including ransomware targeting suspected 0-day

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/04/sonicwall_investigates_cyber_incidents/ Source: The Register Title: SonicWall investigates ‘cyber incidents,’ including ransomware targeting suspected 0-day Feedly Summary: Bypassing MFA and deploying ransomware…sounds like something that rhymes with ‘schmero-day’ SonicWall on Monday confirmed that it’s investigating a rash of ransomware activity targeting its firewall devices, following multiple reports of a zero-day bug under active exploit…

  • Slashdot: Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/25/08/04/1429251/microsoft-used-china-based-engineers-to-support-product-recently-hacked-by-china?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Microsoft Used China-Based Engineers to Support Product Recently Hacked by China Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on a security breach involving Chinese state-sponsored hackers exploiting SharePoint vulnerabilities, impacting numerous organizations, including U.S. government agencies. Notably, it mentions that this software, maintained by China-based…