> TODAY'S SUMMARY (13 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights significant threats and trends in the cybersecurity landscape. A major cyber heist at French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa resulted in fraudulent transactions amounting to $133 million, showcasing the risks posed by service provider vulnerabilities. Additionally, scammers are exploiting trusted brands through fake gift card schemes to harvest personal information, emphasizing the need for consumer vigilance. The rise in hacks targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices has raised alarms about critical infrastructure vulnerabilities. Meanwhile, SonicWall has issued patches for multiple vulnerabilities, including a serious SSL-VPN authentication bypass flaw that has already been exploited. Lastly, sensitive credentials, such as passwords and API keys, have been found exposed in public GitHub repositories, highlighting the persistent issue of poor security practices among developers.
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// AI-powered summary generated at 16:00
Over half of UK remote workers are working without a VPN
Code to force tech firms to be more transparent about how they use customer data
What a journey it has been. I wrote quite a bit about machine learning from a red teaming/security testing perspective this year. It was brought to my attention to provide a conveninent “index page” with all Husky AI and related blog posts. Here it is.
Machine Learning Basics and Building Husky AI G...
Infosecurity Europe poll highlights pandemic challenges for small firms
Experts issue warning for bargain-hunting shoppers
In this post we will explore Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) to create fake husky images. The goal is, of course, to have “Husky AI” misclassify them as real huskies.
If you want to learn more about Husky AI visit the Overview post.
Generative Adversarial Networks One of the attacks I wanted...
Human error a persistent problem in the health service
Michael Jenkins MBE discusses his approach to transforming Brunel University's cyber-resilience
TL;DR: We’re open-sourcing a new framework, blight, for painlessly wrapping and instrumenting C and C++ build tools. We’re already using it on our research projects, and have included a set of useful actions. You can use it today for your own measurement and instrumentation needs: Why would you ever...
Post Brexit, the UK can become a leading role model for a society empowered by data decisions
How post-Brexit GDPR compliance can be achieved with harmonized codes of conduct
There are plenty of examples of artificial intelligence and machine learning systems that made it into the news because of biased predictions and failures.
Here are a few examples on AI/ML gone wrong:
Amazon had an AI recruiting tool which favored men over women for technical jobs The Microsoft chat...
Online retail DDoS attacks increase during health crisis
Acronis will engage in the Cyber-Risk and Corporate Governance project
After writing Go for years, many of us have learned the error-checking pattern down to our bones: “Does this function return an error? Ope, better make sure it’s nil before moving on.” And that’s great! This should be our default behavior when writing Go. However, rote error checking can sometimes p...
Triple-digit increase in attacks since September
Suspected Chinese state actors already exploiting CVE in the wild
You might have heard about “NAT Slipstreaming” by Samy Kamkar. It’s an amazing technique that allows punching a hole in your routers firewall by just visiting a website.
The attack depends on the router having the Application Layer Gateway enabled. This gateway can be used by anyone inside your netw...
Ransomware has major financial impact on IT services giant
Phishing tops list of most frequently reported cybercrimes in US, while in the UK, it’s social media/email hacks