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  • Hacker News: Bad Software Keeps Cyber Security Companies in Business

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    Source URL: https://www.dogesec.com/blog/bad_software_keeps_security_industry_in_business/ Source: Hacker News Title: Bad Software Keeps Cyber Security Companies in Business Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary**: The text provides an analysis of vulnerability trends based on CVE and CWE data from October 2023 to September 2024. It highlights that a significant number of developers still hardcode credentials…

  • Hacker News: Ancient Monkey: Pwning a 17-Year-Old Version of SpiderMonkey

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    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.…

  • The Register: AWS Cloud Development Kit flaw exposed accounts to full takeover

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/24/aws_cloud_development_kit_flaw/ Source: The Register Title: AWS Cloud Development Kit flaw exposed accounts to full takeover Feedly Summary: Remember Bucket Monopoly? Yeah, there’s more Amazon Web Services has fixed a flaw in its open source Cloud Development Kit (CDK) that, under the right conditions, could allow an attacker to completely hijack an account.… AI…

  • Hacker News: The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/safe_c_plusplus/ Source: Hacker News Title: The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The C++ community has proposed the Safe C++ Extensions to enhance memory safety in the language, responding to increasing pressure from public and private sectors for more secure coding…

  • Slashdot: CISA Boss: Makers of Insecure Software Are the Real Cyber Villains

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/24/09/20/1936214/cisa-boss-makers-of-insecure-software-are-the-real-cyber-villains?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: CISA Boss: Makers of Insecure Software Are the Real Cyber Villains Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Jen Easterly, the head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, emphasizes the responsibility of software developers in creating secure code. During her keynote at the Mandiant mWise conference,…

  • The Register: CISA boss: Makers of insecure software are the real cyber villains

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/20/cisa_sloppy_vendors_cybercrime_villains/ Source: The Register Title: CISA boss: Makers of insecure software are the real cyber villains Feedly Summary: Write better code, urges Jen Easterly. And while you’re at it, give crime gangs horrible names like ‘Evil Ferret’ Software developers who ship buggy, insecure code are the real villains in the cyber crime story,…

  • The Register: The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/09/16/safe_c_plusplus/ Source: The Register Title: The empire of C++ strikes back with Safe C++ blueprint Feedly Summary: You pipsqueaks want memory safety? We’ll show you memory safety! We’ll borrow that borrow checker After two years of being beaten with the memory-safety stick, the C++ community has published a proposal to help developers write…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Forrest Brazeal

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/31/forrest-brazeal/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Forrest Brazeal Feedly Summary: I think that AI has killed, or is about to kill, pretty much every single modifier we want to put in front of the word “developer.” “.NET developer”? Meaningless. Copilot, Cursor, etc can get anyone conversant enough with .NET to be productive…

  • Hacker News: New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’

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    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/08/new-0-day-attacks-linked-to-chinas-volt-typhoon/ Source: Hacker News Title: New 0-Day Attacks Linked to China’s ‘Volt Typhoon’ Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a zero-day vulnerability in Versa Director, a software product leveraged by Internet service providers, which is currently being exploited by the Volt Typhoon hacking group, allegedly linked to…