Tag: DoS

  • Hacker News: Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier

    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/11/hacker-in-snowflake-extortions-may-be-a-u-s-soldier/ Source: Hacker News Title: Hacker in Snowflake Extortions May Be a U.S. Soldier Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text details a security breach involving the cloud data storage company Snowflake, highlighting the arrest of two individuals for data theft and extortion, while focusing on a still-at-large hacker…

  • 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…