Tag: vulnerability

  • Alerts: CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/11/07/cisa-adds-four-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Four Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added four new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-43093 Android Framework Privilege Escalation Vulnerability CVE-2024-51567 CyberPanel Incorrect Default Permissions Vulnerability CVE-2019-16278 Nostromo nhttpd Directory Traversal Vulnerability CVE-2024-5910 Palo Alto Expedition Missing…

  • NCSC Feed: The leaky pipe of secure coding

    Source URL: https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/blog-post/leaky-pipe-secure-coding Source: NCSC Feed Title: The leaky pipe of secure coding Feedly Summary: Helen L discusses how security can be woven more seamlessly into the development process. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text emphasizes the necessity of accepting software vulnerabilities as an inherent risk while promoting a developer-centered approach to security.…

  • Schneier on Security: Subverting LLM Coders

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/subverting-llm-coders.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: Subverting LLM Coders Feedly Summary: Really interesting research: “An LLM-Assisted Easy-to-Trigger Backdoor Attack on Code Completion Models: Injecting Disguised Vulnerabilities against Strong Detection“: Abstract: Large Language Models (LLMs) have transformed code com- pletion tasks, providing context-based suggestions to boost developer productivity in software engineering. As users often…

  • The Register: Cisco scores a perfect CVSS 10 with critical flaw in its wireless system

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/07/cisco_uiws_flaw/ Source: The Register Title: Cisco scores a perfect CVSS 10 with critical flaw in its wireless system Feedly Summary: Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul doesn’t live up to its name Cisco is issuing a critical alert notice about a flaw that makes its so-called Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul systems easy to subvert.… AI Summary and…

  • The Register: China’s Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singtel in ‘test-run’ for US telecom attacks

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/06/chinas_volt_typhoon_breached_singtel/ Source: The Register Title: China’s Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singtel in ‘test-run’ for US telecom attacks Feedly Summary: Alleged intrusion spotted in June Chinese government cyberspies Volt Typhoon reportedly breached Singapore Telecommunications over the summer as part of their ongoing attacks against critical infrastructure operators.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Hacker News: No, Quantum Computers Won’t Break All Encryption

    Source URL: https://www.trevorlasn.com/blog/quantum-computers-wont-break-encryption Source: Hacker News Title: No, Quantum Computers Won’t Break All Encryption Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The provided text offers insights into encryption principles, particularly contrasting symmetric (AES) and asymmetric (RSA/ECC) encryption in the context of the emerging quantum computing threat. It emphasizes the resilience of current encryption…

  • Slashdot: Google’s Big Sleep LLM Agent Discovers Exploitable Bug In SQLite

    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/24/11/05/1532207/googles-big-sleep-llm-agent-discovers-exploitable-bug-in-sqlite?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Google’s Big Sleep LLM Agent Discovers Exploitable Bug In SQLite Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** Google has leveraged a large language model (LLM) agent, “Big Sleep,” to identify a previously undiscovered memory vulnerability in SQLite, marking a significant advancement in automated vulnerability discovery. This initiative showcases…

  • The Register: Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after ‘unauthorized activity’

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/05/washington_courts_outage/ Source: The Register Title: Washington courts grapple with statewide outage after ‘unauthorized activity’ Feedly Summary: Justice still being served, but many systems are down A statewide IT outage attributed to “unauthorized activity" is affecting the availability of services provided by all courts in Washington.… AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A statewide…

  • Schneier on Security: AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities

    Source URL: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/11/ais-discovering-vulnerabilities.html Source: Schneier on Security Title: AIs Discovering Vulnerabilities Feedly Summary: I’ve been writing about the possibility of AIs automatically discovering code vulnerabilities since at least 2018. This is an ongoing area of research: AIs doing source code scanning, AIs finding zero-days in the wild, and everything in between. The AIs aren’t very…

  • The Register: Google claims Big Sleep ‘first’ AI to spot freshly committed security bug that fuzzing missed

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/05/google_ai_vulnerability_hunting/ Source: The Register Title: Google claims Big Sleep ‘first’ AI to spot freshly committed security bug that fuzzing missed Feedly Summary: You snooze, you lose, er, win Google claims one of its AI models is the first of its kind to spot a memory safety vulnerability in the wild – specifically an…