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When AIs Start Hacking

Schneier on Security

Okay, maybe this is a bit of hyperbole, but it requires no far-future science fiction technology. The inherent ambiguity in most other systems ends up being a near-term security defense against AI hacking. After hacking humanity, AI systems will then hack other AI systems, and humans will be little more than collateral damage.

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China-linked APT Silk Typhoon targets IT Supply Chain

Security Affairs

Silk Typhoon targets multiple sectors worldwide, including information technology (IT) services and infrastructure, remote monitoring and management (RMM) companies, managed service providers (MSPs) and affiliates, healthcare, legal services, higher education, defense, government, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and energy.

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Operation Digital Eye: China-linked relies on Visual Studio Code Remote Tunnels to spy on Europen entities

Security Affairs

Originally designed to enable remote development, this technology provides full endpoint access, including command execution and filesystem manipulation.” As a result, this technique may be challenging to detect and could evade security defenses.”

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Email Security Recommendations You Should Consider from 2021

Cisco Security

Here is a brief review of the 2021 Email Security Recommendations: Spam and Unwanted Email Detection: For most organizations, spam & unwanted email volumes are running in the low 80% of their entire email volume. Traditional technologies here work by detecting the known malicious email, attempted spoofing attempts, and so on.

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When Your Smart ID Card Reader Comes With Malware

Krebs on Security

“From the details you offered, issue may probably caused by your computer security defense system as it seems not recognized our rarely used driver & detected it as malicious or a virus,” Saicoo’s support team wrote in an email. “When driver installed, this message will vanish out of sight. .

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Microsoft's Majorana 1 and the Path to Scalable Quantum Computing

SecureWorld News

"In addition, working on proof of concepts helps identify potential security gaps before they can be exploited. Government and national security Defense & intelligence: Quantum computing could crack encryption, making existing security protocols obsolete. That may soon become a reality.

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A Deep Dive into DDoS Carpet-Bombing Attacks

Security Boulevard

With the rapid growth of the internet, especially in areas like cloud computing, 5G, and IoT technologies, the scale of botnets continues to expand, intensifying the battle between attack and defense. In response, DDoS attacks have evolved, taking on a more intelligent form to evade security defenses.

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