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Tag: Exploitation

  • CSA: How Can Insecure APIs Affect Cloud Security?

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    Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/blog/2024/10/09/top-threat-3-api-ocalypse-securing-the-insecure-interfaces Source: CSA Title: How Can Insecure APIs Affect Cloud Security? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text outlines critical security challenges identified by the Cloud Security Alliance (CSA) regarding insecure interfaces and APIs, highlighting their vulnerabilities, potential impacts, and mitigation strategies. This information is particularly relevant for professionals involved…

  • The Register: Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/14/fortinet_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Thousands of Fortinet instances vulnerable to actively exploited flaw Feedly Summary: No excuses for not patching this nine-month-old issue More than 86,000 Fortinet instances remain vulnerable to the critical flaw that attackers started exploiting last week, according to Shadowserver’s data.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text…

  • Schneier on Security: Perfectl Malware

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/perfectl-malware.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Perfectl Malware Feedly Summary: Perfectl in an impressive piece of malware: The malware has been circulating since at least 2021. It gets installed by exploiting more than 20,000 common misconfigurations, a capability that may make millions of machines connected to the Internet potential targets, researchers from Aqua…

  • The Register: Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/13/schools_nationstate_attacks_ransomware/ Source: The Register Title: Schools bombarded by nation-state attacks, ransomware gangs, and everyone in between Feedly Summary: Reading, writing, and cyber mayhem, amirite? If we were to draw an infosec Venn diagram, with one circle representing “sensitive info that attackers would want to steal" and the other "limited resources plus difficult-to-secure IT…

  • Slashdot: LLM Attacks Take Just 42 Seconds On Average, 20% of Jailbreaks Succeed

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    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/10/12/213247/llm-attacks-take-just-42-seconds-on-average-20-of-jailbreaks-succeed?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: LLM Attacks Take Just 42 Seconds On Average, 20% of Jailbreaks Succeed Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article discusses alarming findings from Pillar Security’s report on attacks against large language models (LLMs), revealing that such attacks are not only alarmingly quick but also frequently result…

  • Hacker News: The Explore vs. Exploit Dilemma

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    Source URL: https://nathanzhao.cc/explore-exploit Source: Hacker News Title: The Explore vs. Exploit Dilemma Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text presents an in-depth exploration of the multi-armed bandit problem, a fundamental concept in machine learning related to decision-making under uncertainty. It discusses the dynamics of exploration and exploitation, and introduces the forward…

  • Wired: Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/pig-butchering-scams-go-high-tech/ Source: Wired Title: Pig Butchering Scams Are Going High Tech Feedly Summary: Scammers in Southeast Asia are increasingly turning to AI, deepfakes, and dangerous malware in a way that makes their pig butchering operations even more convincing. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the alarming rise of digital scams…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: What NIST’s latest password standards mean, and why the old ones weren’t working

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    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/threat-source-newsletter-oct-10-2024/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: What NIST’s latest password standards mean, and why the old ones weren’t working Feedly Summary: Rather than setting a regular cadence for changing passwords, users only need to change their passwords if there is evidence of a breach.  AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text discusses…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Using Chrome’s accessibility APIs to find security bugs

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    Source URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/10/using-chromes-accessibility-apis-to.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Using Chrome’s accessibility APIs to find security bugs Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the challenges and methodologies involved in fuzzing Chrome’s user interface (UI) to discover potential security bugs. It highlights the initiative of leveraging accessibility features to improve bug…

  • Alerts: Best Practices to Configure BIG-IP LTM Systems to Encrypt HTTP Persistence Cookies

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    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/10/best-practices-configure-big-ip-ltm-systems-encrypt-http-persistence-cookies Source: Alerts Title: Best Practices to Configure BIG-IP LTM Systems to Encrypt HTTP Persistence Cookies Feedly Summary: CISA has observed cyber threat actors leveraging unencrypted persistent cookies managed by the F5 BIG-IP Local Traffic Manager (LTM) module to enumerate other non-internet facing devices on the network. F5 BIG-IP is a suite of hardware and…