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Security News Update for the Week Ending April 26, 2024

HHS Beefs up Privacy Protection for Reproductive Healthcare Info In a final rule released this week, doctors, clinics and other providers are prohibited from disclosing protected health information related to lawful reproductive healthcare. The rule is designed to protect women who cross state lines seeking an abortion and their providers. The 291 page regulation will […]

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UnitedHealth Admits Breach Could Cover Substantial Portion of US Population

The Change Health / UnitedHealth Group breach continues to evolve and get worse. UnitedHealth is suggesting that the hackers may have accessed health data for “a very large number of people in the United States. Fundamentally, this is a worst case scenario for what happens when data moves from paper to bits and when those […]

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SURPRISE: GPT-4 Can Exploit Unpatched Vulnerabilities

Who would have guessed? Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) fed AI agents vague descriptions of more than a dozen unpatched vulnerabilities. The agent they created with GPT-4 exploited 87 percent of those vulnerabilities. Fourteen other agents made with lesser tools like GPT 3.5 and Metasploit failed. The researchers said that GPT-4 was […]

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Security News Update for the Week Ending April 19, 2024

Feds Give Another Chip Maker Subsidy to Build in US Last week the feds announced a subsidy to Taiwan Semi to build multiple chip plants (fabs) in Arizona. This week the feds announced, based on last year’s CHIPS Act, a subsidy to Samsung to build multiple plants in Texas. This creates a lot of construction […]

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Open Source Maintainers Under Attack

There are folks who say that open source is safer than commercial software because, well, it is open source. Their theory is that since, technically, anyone can look at the source (ignoring the fact that you would need to be a trained programmer in whatever language that software is written in and have the time […]

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