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Microsoft script updates bootable media for BlackLotus bootkit fixes
Microsoft script updates bootable media for BlackLotus bootkit fixes Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to help Windows users and admins update bootable media so it utilizes the new “Windows UEFI CA 2023” certificate before the mitigations of the BlackLotus UEF … Read more Published Date: Feb 05, 2025 (21 hours, 6 minutes ago) Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this…
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Cisco patches two critical Identity Services Engine flaws
Cisco patches two critical Identity Services Engine flaws Cisco has fixed two critical vulnerabilities in its Identity Services Engine (ISE) that could allow an authenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root or access sensitive informati … Read more Published Date: Feb 05, 2025 (21 hours, 50 minutes ago) Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this article.…
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7-Zip 0-day was exploited in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine
7-Zip 0-day was exploited in Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine Researchers said they recently discovered a zero-day vulnerability in the 7-Zip archiving utility that was actively exploited as part of Russia’s ongoing invasion of Ukraine. The vulnerability allowed … Read more Published Date: Feb 05, 2025 (23 hours, 17 minutes ago) Vulnerabilities has been mentioned in this…
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CISA orders agencies to patch Linux kernel bug exploited in attacks
CISA orders agencies to patch Linux kernel bug exploited in attacks CISA has ordered federal agencies to secure their systems within three weeks against a high-severity Linux kernel flaw actively exploited in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2024-53104, the security bug was f … Read more Published Date: Feb 05, 2025 (1 day, 1 hour ago) Vulnerabilities has been…
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Free secure desktop email client for Linux, Windows and macOS
The Tuta desktop email client for Linux, Windows, and macOS is an amazing tools that offers many benefits compared to accessing Tuta Mail and Tuta Calendar via web browser. Check here how our end-to-end encrypted, open source desktop clients for Linux, Windows and macOS make your experience with Tuta even more secure, and how the…
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New Outlook’s security issues: Businesses should avoid switching!
Microsoft’s “new Outlook” (introduced in 2022) has been promoted as an upgrade, but its implementation introduces severe data protection concerns – so severe that it’s fair to say it’s a downgrade rather than an upgrade. Regardless, Microsoft increasingly pushes personal and business Outlook users to switch to the new Outlook. But IT admins should be…
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On Generative AI Security
Microsoft’s AI Red Team just published “Lessons from Red Teaming 100 Generative AI Products.” Their blog post lists “three takeaways,” but the eight lessons in the report itself are more useful: Understand what the system can do and where it is applied. You don’t have to compute gradients to break an AI system. AI red…
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AIs and Robots Should Sound Robotic
Most people know that robots no longer sound like tinny trash cans. They sound like Siri, Alexa, and Gemini. They sound like the voices in labyrinthine customer support phone trees. And even those robot voices are being made obsolete by new AI-generated voices that can mimic every vocal nuance and tic of human speech, down…
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Journalists and Civil Society Members Using WhatsApp Targeted by Paragon Spyware
This is yet another story of commercial spyware being used against journalists and civil society members. The journalists and other civil society members were being alerted of a possible breach of their devices, with WhatsApp telling the Guardian it had “high confidence” that the 90 users in question had been targeted and “possibly compromised.” It…
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Deepfakes and the 2024 US Election
Interesting analysis: We analyzed every instance of AI use in elections collected by the WIRED AI Elections Project (source for our analysis), which tracked known uses of AI for creating political content during elections taking place in 2024 worldwide. In each case, we identified what AI was used for and estimated the cost of creating…