Hackers can and are contributing to open-source projects, but their contributions are not benign. Open-source – including AI code generators , are the main stay of software development. Saves time and money. In the second quarter of 2025, data exfiltration remained the top priority for attackers looking to quietly compromise developer environments from the inside out. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]How to Trick ChatGPT? I Give Up A clever AI bug hunter found a way to trick ChatGPT into disclosing Windows product keys, including at least one owned by Wells Fargo bank, by inviting the AI model to play a guessing game. Part of the reason the trick worked was that the sensitive data had […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cost of Recent UK Retail Cyberattacks is $350 to $600 Million Britain’s Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of £270-440 million ($362-$591 million). Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Harrods were all targets. That is a lot of money for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]I had not heard about this before today and will have to do some experimenting. Some of us have used virtual desktops, often called VDI, in the cloud before and while they are not as fast desktop PCs, they have some very interesting features such as infinite scaling and great desktop management. They are not […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is important to remember that the agency’s budget proposal is just that, a proposal, and Congress may or may not agree to it. So what is in the proposal? Whether Congress agrees with the agency or not is to be seen, but if they do, you can draw your own conclusion as to the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CISA is warning businesses that SaaS providers are under attack as a way to steal their customers’ credentials. If you think about this, it makes sense. This came after Commvault, a cloud-based backup solution, was compromised using a zero-day. What is interesting is how they planned to exploit the vulnerability. Commvault claims that no customer data in […]
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