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  • Schneier on Security: Most of 2023’s Top Exploited Vulnerabilities Were Zero-Days

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    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/most-of-2023s-top-exploited-vulnerabilities-were-zero-days.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Most of 2023’s Top Exploited Vulnerabilities Were Zero-Days Feedly Summary: Zero-day vulnerabilities are more commonly used, according to the Five Eyes: Key Findings In 2023, malicious cyber actors exploited more zero-day vulnerabilities to compromise enterprise networks compared to 2022, allowing them to conduct cyber operations against higher-priority…

  • Hacker News: Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/18/teenage_serial_swatterforhire_busted/ Source: Hacker News Title: Teen serial swatter-for-hire busted, pleads guilty, could face 20 years Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses various significant incidents in cybersecurity, including a teenager convicted of swatting, critical vulnerabilities in software, an ongoing debate regarding protections for cybersecurity researchers in international law,…

  • Hacker News: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner

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    Source URL: https://github.com/NVIDIA/garak Source: Hacker News Title: Garak, LLM Vulnerability Scanner Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text describes “garak,” a command-line vulnerability scanner specifically designed for large language models (LLMs). This tool aims to uncover various weaknesses in LLMs, such as hallucination, prompt injection attacks, and data leakage. Its development…

  • Slashdot: What Happened After Google Retrofitted Memory Safety Onto Its C++ Codebase?

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/16/0630218/what-happened-after-google-retrofitted-memory-safety-onto-its-c-codebase Source: Slashdot Title: What Happened After Google Retrofitted Memory Safety Onto Its C++ Codebase? Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Google’s transition to Safe Coding and memory-safe languages aims to enhance security within its extensive C++ codebase, notably in critical products like Chrome and its various services. By integrating hardened…

  • Hacker News: SmoothLLM: Defending Large Language Models Against Jailbreaking Attacks

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    Source URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.03684 Source: Hacker News Title: SmoothLLM: Defending Large Language Models Against Jailbreaking Attacks Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text presents “SmoothLLM,” an innovative algorithm designed to enhance the security of Large Language Models (LLMs) against jailbreaking attacks, which manipulate models into producing undesirable content. The proposal highlights a…

  • Hacker News: A new vulnerability on IPv6 parsing in linux

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    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…

  • The Register: Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you’d expect

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/16/chatbots_run_robots/ Source: The Register Title: Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you’d expect Feedly Summary: LLM-controlled droids easily jailbroken to perform mayhem, researchers warn Science fiction author Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics, and you’d never know it from the behavior of today’s robots or those making them.… AI Summary…

  • The Register: Mystery Palo Alto Networks hijack-my-firewall zero-day now officially under exploit

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/15/palo_alto_networks_firewall_zeroday/ Source: The Register Title: Mystery Palo Alto Networks hijack-my-firewall zero-day now officially under exploit Feedly Summary: Yank access to management interface, stat A critical zero-day vulnerability in Palo Alto Networks’ firewall management interface that can allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code is now officially under active exploitation.… AI Summary and…

  • Google Online Security Blog: Retrofitting Spatial Safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++

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    Source URL: https://security.googleblog.com/2024/11/retrofitting-spatial-safety-to-hundreds.html Source: Google Online Security Blog Title: Retrofitting Spatial Safety to hundreds of millions of lines of C++ Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the exploitation of spatial memory safety vulnerabilities in C++ code, representing a significant security risk. Google’s initiative to enhance memory safety through the implementation…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI Public Bug Bounty

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/14/openai-public-bug-bounty/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI Public Bug Bounty Feedly Summary: OpenAI Public Bug Bounty Reading this investigation of the security boundaries of OpenAI’s Code Interpreter environment helped me realize that the rules for OpenAI’s public bug bounty inadvertently double as the missing details for a whole bunch of different aspects of…