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DoD Cyber Command 2.0 DoD, apparently, doesn’t like it being called Cyber Command 2.0. Maybe we should call it 3.0 or 4.0. DoD has been wrestling with making Cyber Command more effective since it was formed in 2010. Multiple presidents from both parties have failed at it. Now DoD has a new plan to solve […]
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Like many AI tools, Claude has a code generating tool. You can use it for good. Or not so good. Chinese spies are using the code generation tool to target companies. Tech companies. Finance. Chemical. And, yes, government agencies. Anthropic created a paper documenting what they know. You can read it here. Anthropic says this is […]
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To some people this is no surprise. To most, it will be a big surprise. A software engineer that bought (well, at least he thought he bought it) a smart vacuum discovered that he didn’t buy it, he was, sort of, renting it. When he blocked the “smartness” of the vacuum it stopped working in […]
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China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) is claiming that the US is doing what it does on a regular basis. NOTE: This information comes from the South China Morning Post (SCMP). While the newspaper is based in Hong Kong and owned by Chinese basillionaire Alibaba Group, it is still Chinese. The substance of the article has been […]
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10.17.25 Security News Bites If You Have Connected a Chatbot to Your Email/Calendar. Or other Apps. You May Want to disconnect it. Gemini and other chatbots (such as Grok) can be compromised by hidden input. The example is Gemini and mail and calendar integration. You can construct a prompt, embed it invisibly into an email […]
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US water utilities are an interesting group. Let us talk about Colorado. Denver Water was founded in 1918, has a budget of $700 million according to Wikipedia and has over 1100 employees. It serves a million and a half people. Indian Hills water district, by comparison, has a budget of $400,000. From what I understand […]
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