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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/extortionists_ox_thief_legal_threats/ Source: The Register Title: Extortion crew threatened to inform Edward Snowden (?!) if victim didn’t pay up Feedly Summary: Don’t laugh. This kind of warning shows crims are getting desperate Dark web analysts at infosec software vendor Fortra have discovered an extortion crew named Ox Thief that threatened to contact Edward Snowden…

The Register: ‘Dead simple’ hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat ‘now actively exploited in the wild’

Mar 18, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/18/apache_tomcat_java_rce_flaw/ Source: The Register Title: ‘Dead simple’ hijacking hole in Apache Tomcat ‘now actively exploited in the wild’ Feedly Summary: One PUT request, one poisoned session file, and the server’s yours A trivial flaw in Apache Tomcat that allows remote code execution and access to sensitive files is said to be under attack…

Hacker News: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B

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Source URL: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-03-17/alphabet-in-talks-to-buy-cloud-security-firm-wiz-for-33-billion Source: Hacker News Title: Alphabet in Talks to Buy Cloud Security Firm Wiz for $33B Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Alphabet Inc.’s potential acquisition of cloud security company Wiz for $33 billion highlights a strategic move to enhance Google Cloud’s cybersecurity capabilities amidst stiff competition from Amazon and…

The Register: Amazon boots local Alexa processing: All your voice requests shipped to the cloud

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/17/amazon_kills_on_device_alexa/ Source: The Register Title: Amazon boots local Alexa processing: All your voice requests shipped to the cloud Feedly Summary: Web souk says Echo hardware doesn’t have the oomph for next-gen AI anyway Come March 28, those who opted to have their voice commands for Amazon’s AI assistant Alexa processed locally on their…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral Small 3.1

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/mistral-small-31/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral Small 3.1 Feedly Summary: Mistral Small 3.1 Mistral Small 3 came out in January and was a notable, genuinely excellent local model that used an Apache 2.0 license. Mistral Small 3.1 offers a significant improvement: it’s multi-modal (images) and has an increased 128,000 token context length,…

ISC2 Think Tank: DeepSeek Deep Dive: Uncovering the Opportunities and Risks

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Source URL: https://www.isc2.org/professional-development/webinars/thinktank?commid=638002 Source: ISC2 Think Tank Title: DeepSeek Deep Dive: Uncovering the Opportunities and Risks Feedly Summary: In January 2025, the Chinese open-source artificial intelligence tool DeepSeek caused huge ripples in the AI market, granting user organizations affordable access to powerful LLMs. While this industry-disrupting innovation is indicative of the myriad opportunities that open-source…

AWS News Blog: AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Pi Day, Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration, Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, Amazon S3 Tables, and more

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Source URL: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/aws-weekly-roundup-aws-pi-day-amazon-bedrock-multi-agent-collaboration-amazon-sagemaker-unified-studio-amazon-s3-tables-and-more/ Source: AWS News Blog Title: AWS Weekly Roundup: AWS Pi Day, Amazon Bedrock multi-agent collaboration, Amazon SageMaker Unified Studio, Amazon S3 Tables, and more Feedly Summary: Thanks to everyone who joined us for the fifth annual AWS Pi Day on March 14. Since its inception in 2021, commemorating the Amazon Simple Storage…

Bulletins: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 10, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/bulletins/sb25-076 Source: Bulletins Title: Vulnerability Summary for the Week of March 10, 2025 Feedly Summary: High Vulnerabilities PrimaryVendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source Info 1E–1E Client Improper link resolution before file access in the Nomad module of the 1E Client, in versions prior to 25.3, enables an attacker with local unprivileged…

Cloud Blog: BitM Up! Session Stealing in Seconds Using the Browser-in-the-Middle Technique

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