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Category: Open Source
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The XZ Compression Backdoor Timeline details a supply chain attack on the xz compression library by “Jia Tan,” who gained trust and eventually inserted a backdoor, affecting systems using the library. The attack was detected in March 2024, prompting industry response and highlighting vulnerabilities in open source supply chain security.
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Microsoft Corp. is set to unveil artificial intelligence tools on April 1, aimed at enhancing the capabilities of cybersecurity professionals. These tools, developed in partnership with OpenAI, will assist in summarizing suspicious incidents and uncovering hackers’ methods. Dubbed Copilot for Security, this suite of AI tools was unveiled approximately a year ago and has since…
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Web 3.0, often referred to as the Semantic or Decentralized Web, has emerged over the past few years as a both an ideological and technological shift from the current state of the internet, referred to as Web 2.0. The new technology is defined by decentralized databases and distributed ledgers across nodes, reducing the risks in…
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A critical vulnerability within the GNU C Library (glibc) has recently come to light, putting a spotlight on the inherent complexities and potential oversights in system security, even within well-established, widely used open-source software. This vulnerability granted the name “Looney Tunables” by the researchers from Qualys, resides in glibc’s dynamic loader, a crucial component in…
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38 Terabytes. That’s the amount of storage it takes to store 7600 hours of HD video, enough to watch for 316 days without repeating anything. It’s also the amount of private company data that Microsoft AI researchers accidentally exposed, including over 30,000 internal Teams messages, according to cloud security company Wiz. The Microsoft Azure Leak…
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With the popularization of generative AI tools like ChatGPT, information has become increasingly easy to retrieve. Ask it anything, and ChatGPT will respond to the best of its ability, modifying itself to your prompt’s specifications as best it can. The more detailed the prompt, the more specific of a response you can get from an…
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) plans to tackle security issues related to medical devices and has released a plan of action it means to implement in the near future. Read More………….
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LONDON — The United States and Britain on Monday issued a first-of-its-kind joint warning about Russian cyberattacks against government and private organizations as well as individual homes and offices in both countries, a milestone in the escalating use of cyberweaponry between major powers. Read More………
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