Tag: vulnerability
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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.…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…