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South_agency/Getty Images The XZ Utils backdoor (CVE-2024-3094) may not have been an isolated incident, according to a joint statement by the Open Source Security Foundation and the OpenJS Foundation. If you’re unaware of the XZ Utils saga, my esteemed colleague, Steven Vaughn-Nichols, covered the story in “This backdoor almost infected Linux everywhere: The XZ Utils close […] More
Antonio Solano via iStock/Getty Images Plus With recent data breaches coming to light, you may wonder how to protect your identity from bad actors. A credit freeze is a simple thing you can do to restrict access to your credit report and prevent bad actors from using your personal information for their financial gain. Also: […] More
Gov.uk Generative AI is growing exponentially, with new developments daily. As a result, safeguards and policies regarding the technology are more necessary than ever. World leaders will gather soon at the AI Seoul Summit to discuss just that. Also: Despite DALL-E military pitch, OpenAI maintains its tools won’t be used to develop weapons On Friday, […] More
boonchai wedmakawand/Getty Images Companies around the world need to act quickly after another major security breach hit a company that provides critical data analytics and visualization tools to a slew of organizations. Earlier this week, Sisense confirmed that the data dashboard and analytics company had been hit with a breach that allowed hackers to access its […] More
rob dobi/Getty Images If you have a lot of customers you need to contact regarding an important communication, such as a data breach, it may be a good idea to stage those communications over several days rather than do it all at once. It appears that one of the US’s largest wireless services carriers did […] More
DuckDuckGo DuckDuckGo, the internet browser that specializes in online privacy, is launching several new tools aimed at making sure online data brokers can’t get access to your personal information. Also: The best secure browsers to protect your privacy online The new set of tools, called Privacy Pro, combines three things: an anonymous VPN that secures […] More
Paul Taylor/Getty Images One of the ultimate cloud security nightmares is when someone breaks through your container runtime into its underlying operating system. With attacks such as Leaky Vessels, a hacker can wreak havoc on your programs, smash other containerized applications, and grant the attacker root user-level privileges. In short, it’s all over for your […] More
Meta Meta is taking more steps to try to combat sextortion crimes that target teenagers on Instagram. The company on Thursday announced plans to test blurring nude photos in DMs sent to teens and prevent potential scammers from even contacting teenagers. By default, the nudity protection feature would be turned on globally for messages sent to teens […] More
