If you have a recently purchased PC, unlike the one I am writing this on, in theory, this should be fixed automatically. There are several steps that you can take to figure out the status of things. The first question is whether secure boot is turned on. Run MSINFO32 and look for the SECURE BOOT […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]With the announcement of Claude Mythos, security teams kind of panicked. Anthropic gave the security teams from some big players access to the software to big players like JP Morgan Chase and Microsoft, but that doesn’t help the millions of other businesses that will see hackers use Mythos against them. The White House is concerned […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It is old news (as in 3 days old) that Anthropic, maker of Claude, accidentally included hundreds of thousands of source code when they included an internal file in a public release. That file was only meant for internal use. That, by itself, is embarrassing but not catastrophic. It certainly helps hackers look for bugs, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]It seems like this is becoming too frequent. A lone hacker used Claude and ChatGPT to breach Mexico’s government. 1 person. Two AI subscriptions. Nine agencies compromised. 150 gigabytes of data stolen. The breached agencies include Mexico’s federal tax authority and the national electoral institute, also state level systems in the Mexican states of Jalisco, […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]EDR or Endpoint Detection and Response is what should have replaced the anti-virus software on your computer years ago. You can think of it as AV on steroids, without all the steroid side effects. Microsoft being Microsoft, they had to do stupid things to allow this hack to work. They never want to intentionally break […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]This is a tale of three firewall vendors: Cisco, Checkpoint and Fortinet and their security challenges. First, even though we likely think of a firewall as a piece of hardware, in reality, it is just a specialized computer – think of it as the original Internet of Things device – that runs a lot of […]
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