Tag: incident
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The Register: How to jailbreak ChatGPT and trick the AI into writing exploit code using hex encoding
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/chatgpt_hex_encoded_jailbreak/ Source: The Register Title: How to jailbreak ChatGPT and trick the AI into writing exploit code using hex encoding Feedly Summary: ‘It was like watching a robot going rogue’ says researcher OpenAI’s language model GPT-4o can be tricked into writing exploit code by encoding the malicious instructions in hexadecimal, which allows an…
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Alerts: JCDC’s Industry-Government Collaboration Speeds Mitigation of CrowdStrike IT Outage
Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/29/jcdcs-industry-government-collaboration-speeds-mitigation-crowdstrike-it-outage Source: Alerts Title: JCDC’s Industry-Government Collaboration Speeds Mitigation of CrowdStrike IT Outage Feedly Summary: CISA, through the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative (JCDC), enabled swift, coordinated response and information sharing in the wake of a significant IT outage caused by a CrowdStrike software update. This outage, which impacted government, critical infrastructure, and industry…
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Hacker News: Ancient Monkey: Pwning a 17-Year-Old Version of SpiderMonkey
Source URL: https://blog.pspaul.de/posts/ancient-monkey-pwning-a-17-year-old-version-of-spidermonkey/ Source: Hacker News Title: Ancient Monkey: Pwning a 17-Year-Old Version of SpiderMonkey Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a significant vulnerability found in the Zscaler enterprise VPN solution, particularly linked to the pacparser library and its use of an outdated version of the SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine.…
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Hacker News: How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends
Source URL: https://delroth.net/posts/spoofed-mass-scan-abuse/ Source: Hacker News Title: How to get the whole planet to send abuse complaints to your best friends Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text describes a cybersecurity incident where the author received an abuse report linked to their server’s IP, suggesting potential involvement in malicious activities. Upon…
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Hacker News: Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it’s in use
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/migrating-billions-of-records-moving-our-active-dns-database-while-in-use Source: Hacker News Title: Migrating billions of records: moving our active DNS database while it’s in use Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses Cloudflare’s migration of DNS data from its primary database cluster (cfdb) to a new cluster (dnsdb) to improve scalability and performance. The migration…
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The Cloudflare Blog: Forced offline: the Q3 2024 Internet disruption summary
Source URL: https://blog.cloudflare.com/q3-2024-internet-disruption-summary Source: The Cloudflare Blog Title: Forced offline: the Q3 2024 Internet disruption summary Feedly Summary: The third quarter of 2024 was particularly active, with quite a few significant Internet disruptions. Underlying causes included government-directed shutdowns, power outages, hurricane damage, terrestrial and submarine cable cuts, military action, and more. AI Summary and Description:…
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Schneier on Security: Law Enforcement Deanonymizes Tor Users
Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/10/law-enforcement-deanonymizes-tor-users.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Law Enforcement Deanonymizes Tor Users Feedly Summary: The German police have successfully deanonymized at least four Tor users. It appears they watch known Tor relays and known suspects, and use timing analysis to figure out who is using what relay. Tor has written about this. Hacker News…
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The Register: Merde! Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data
Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/29/macron_location_strava/ Source: The Register Title: Merde! Macron’s bodyguards reveal his location by sharing Strava data Feedly Summary: It’s not just the French president, Biden and Putin also reportedly trackable The French equivalent of the US Secret Service may have been letting their guard down, as an investigation showed they are easily trackable via…