Tag: denial
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/21/a-warning-about-tiktoken/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Feedly Summary: A warning about tiktoken, BPE, and OpenAI models Tom MacWright warns that OpenAI’s tiktoken Python library has a surprising performance profile: it’s superlinear with the length of input, meaning someone could potentially denial-of-service you by sending you…
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The Cloudflare Blog: Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/bigger-and-badder-how-ddos-attack-sizes-have-evolved-over-the-last-decade Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Bigger and badder: how DDoS attack sizes have evolved over the last decade Feedly Summary: If we plot the metrics associated with large DDoS attacks observed in the last 10 years, does it show a straight, steady increase in an exponential curve that keeps becoming steeper, or…
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Hacker News: A new vulnerability on IPv6 parsing in linux
Source URL: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2024-50252 Source: Hacker News Title: A new vulnerability on IPv6 parsing in linux Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details a recently resolved memory leak vulnerability (CVE-2024-50252) in the Linux kernel associated with the `mlxsw` driver when handling remote IPv6 addresses. This vulnerability presents significant implications for IT…
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Cisco Talos Blog: November Patch Tuesday release contains three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities
Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/november-patch-tuesday-release/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: November Patch Tuesday release contains three critical remote code execution vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: The Patch Tuesday for November of 2024 includes 91 vulnerabilities, including two that Microsoft marked as “critical.” The remaining 89 vulnerabilities listed are classified as “important.” AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…
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Hacker News: Defending the Tor network: Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor
Source URL: https://blog.torproject.org/defending-tor-mitigating-IP-spoofing/ Source: Hacker News Title: Defending the Tor network: Mitigating IP spoofing against Tor Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text outlines a recent coordinated IP spoofing attack targeting the Tor network. It describes how relay operators faced abuse complaints due to spoofed connections that mimicked unauthorized port scanning,…