Security News
A serious vulnerability named KeyTrap in the Domain Name System Security Extensions feature could be exploited to deny internet access to applications for an extended period. It allows a remote attacker to cause a long lasting denial-of-service condition in vulnerable resolvers by sending a single DNS packet.
Google is testing a new feature to prevent malicious public websites from pivoting through a user's browser to attack devices and services on internal, private networks. More simply, Google plans to prevent bad websites on the internet from attacking a visitor's devices in your home or on your computer.
AI models, the subject of ongoing safety concerns about harmful and biased output, pose a risk beyond content emission. Computer scientists affiliated with the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign have demonstrated this by weaponizing several large language models to compromise vulnerable websites without human guidance.
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Google has announced that it's open-sourcing Magika, an artificial intelligence (AI)-powered tool to identify file types, to help defenders accurately detect binary and textual file types. "Magika...
Google has open sourced Magika, an in-house machine-learning-powered file identifier, as part of its AI Cyber Defense Initiative, which aims to give IT network defenders and others better automated tools. Enter Magika, which uses a trained model to rapidly identify file types from file data, and it's an approach the Big G thinks works well enough to use in production.
The ALPHV/Blackcat ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for the recent network breaches of Fortune 500 company Prudential Financial and mortgage lender loanDepot. LoanDepot revealed on January 22 that at least 16.6 million people had their personal information stolen in the ransomware attack they confirmed on January 8, two days after disclosing it as a "Cyber incident" on January 6.
It is a simple idea but probably never seen before, since it is the opposite of what most people usually want: website owners want the most data they can get and players want to choose their username/avatar. In the context of privacy, doxing and child-friendly websites, I believe this is the least amount of players' information needed to keep a leaderboard interesting.
Wyze Labs is investigating a security issue while experiencing a service outage that has been causing connectivity issues since this morning. "We are aware of an issue with our AWS partner which has impacted device connection and caused login difficulties. We are taking steps to mitigate the problem on our end as we work with AWS to resolve the issue," the company said.
OpenAI released on Feb. 15 an impressive new text-to-video model called Sora that can create photorealistic or cartoony moving images from natural language text prompts. Sora isn't available to the public yet; instead, OpenAI released Sora to red teamers - security researchers who mimic techniques used by threat actors - to assess possible harms or risks.