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  • September 18, 2024

GSMA Plans End-to-End Encryption for Cross-Platform RCS Messaging

The GSM Association (GSMA), the governing body that oversees the development of the Rich Communications Services (RCS) protocol, on Tuesday, said it’s working towards implementing end-to-end encryption (E2EE) to secure messages sent between the Android and iOS ecosystems. “The next major milestone is for the RCS Universal Profile to add important user protections such as […]

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  • September 18, 2024

Patch Issued for Critical VMware vCenter Flaw Allowing Remote Code Execution

Broadcom on Tuesday released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting VMware vCenter Server that could pave the way for remote code execution. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-38812 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a heap-overflow vulnerability in the DCE/RPC protocol. “A malicious actor with network access to vCenter Server may trigger this […]

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  • September 17, 2024

The AI Fix #16: GPT-4o1, AI time travelers, and where’s my driverless car?

In episode 16 of The AI Fix, Mark and Graham meet GPT-4o1 and ask if it knows how many cousins Alice’s sister has, a top cop wants AI injected into his colleagues “like heroin”, Mark finds an AI that might actually be able to help with that, and our hosts start a conspiracy theory about […]

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  • September 17, 2024

Remotely Exploding Pagers

@ Ranir, Re : Occam had a razor for reason. You are needlessly multiplying hypotheses when you say, “It’s possible that the detonation signal doesn’t use the normal paging protocols or radios at all. It could be more secure—or less” Yes it could but it is unnecessary, and currently there is no evidence to that […]

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  • September 17, 2024

Google Chrome Switches to ML-KEM for Post-Quantum Cryptography Defense

Google has announced that it will be switching from KYBER to ML-KEM in its Chrome web browser as part of its ongoing efforts to defend against the risk posed by cryptographically relevant quantum computers (CRQCs). “Chrome will offer a key share prediction for hybrid ML-KEM (codepoint 0x11EC),” David Adrian, David Benjamin, Bob Beck, and Devon […]

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  • September 17, 2024

U.S. Treasury Sanctions Executives Linked to Intellexa Predator Spyware Operation

The U.S. Department of Treasury has imposed fresh sanctions against five executives and one entity with ties to the Intellexa Consortium for their role in the development, operation, and distribution of a commercial spyware called Predator. “The United States will not tolerate the reckless propagation of disruptive technologies that threatens our national security and undermines […]

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  • September 17, 2024

How to Investigate ChatGPT activity in Google Workspace

Since launching ChatGPT in 2022, OpenAI has defied expectations with a steady stream of product announcements and enhancements. One such announcement came on May 16, 2024, and for most consumers, it probably felt innocuous. Titled “Improvements to data analysis in ChatGPT,” the post outlines how users can add files directly from Google Drive and Microsoft […]

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  • September 17, 2024

Meta to Train AI Models Using Public U.K. Facebook and Instagram Posts

Meta has announced that it will begin training its artificial intelligence (AI) systems using public content shared by adult users across Facebook and Instagram in the U.K. in the coming months. “This means that our generative AI models will reflect British culture, history, and idiom, and that UK companies and institutions will be able to […]

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  • September 17, 2024

Python Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews

Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article These particular attacks from North Korean state-funded hacking team Lazarus Group are new, but the overall malware campaign against the Python development community has been running since at least August of 2023, […]

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