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Socket lands $4.6M to audit and catch malicious open source code

TechCrunch

Securing the software supply chain is admittedly somewhat of a dry topic, but knowing which components and code go into your everyday devices and appliances is a critical part of the software development process that billions of people rely on every day. That also means a reliance on trusting that the developers will always act in good faith.

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What Can You Do About Malware In The Cloud?

CTOvision

Malware exists even there - and it spreads fast. And like any system with a physical backend, the cloud can easily be subject to a wide range of vulnerabilities - including malware. And like any system with a physical backend, the cloud can easily be subject to a wide range of vulnerabilities - including malware.

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Cybersecurity Snapshot: CISA Warns of Global Spear-Phishing Threat, While OWASP Releases AI Security Resources

Tenable

Meanwhile, cybercriminals have amplified their use of malware for fake software-update attacks. Those are three security measures cyber teams should proactively take in response to an ongoing and “large scale” email spear-phishing campaign targeting victims with malicious RDP files , according to the U.S. Prevent RDP file execution.

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10 things to watch out for with open source gen AI

CIO

Enterprises are allowed to use the models commercially, and for developers to create and distribute additional work on top of the base Llama models, but they’re not allowed to use Llama outputs to improve other LLMs unless they are themselves Llama derivatives. Many model developers are talking about using curated data,” she says.

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‘If you compromise the bootloader, you pwn the whole phone’

The Parallax

The IOActive team found 13 zero-day vulnerabilities in U-Boot alone. Some device makers are poor at hardening, or limiting attack surface. Engineers also underestimate reverse-engineering attacks, or presume that there are no bad actors,” Tartaro says. READ MORE FROM PACSEC 2019. Have a Tesla Model 3?

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What Makes This “Data Privacy Day” Different?

Tenable

Organizations face the complex task of controlling AI deployment usage while also identifying vulnerabilities within AI tools and AI development packages. It has been well documented how attackers are leveraging AI to write more sophisticated and effective malware for ransomware attacks, as well as to enhance phishing scams and more.

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Radar Trends to Watch: November 2024

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

Meta has also released the Llama Stack APIs , a set of APIs to aid developers building generative AI applications. This is not going to go well… The Allen Institute has developed a small language model called Molmo that they claim has performance equivalent to GPT-4o. Two of the newly released Llama 3.2