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16 Nov

Bitfinex Hacker Gets 5 Years for $10 Billion Bitcoin Heist

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In perhaps the most adorable hacker story of the year, a trio of technologists in India found an innovative way to circumvent Apple’s location restrictions on AirPod Pro 2s so they could enable the earbuds’ hearing aid feature for their grandmas. The hack involved a homemade Faraday cage, a microwave, and a lot of trial and error.On the other end of the tech-advancements spectrum, the US military is currently testing an AI-enabled machine gun that is capable of auto-targeting swarms of drones. The Bullfrog, built by Allen Control Systems, is one of several advanced weapons technologies in the works to…

12 Nov

The Benefits of MedOne and VMware: A Cloud Solution Built for the Future

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By partnering with VMware, MedOne is able to offer businesses advanced virtualization and cloud management capabilities that help them better manage their IT resources and ensure business continuity. Here are the key benefits of the MedOne and VMware collaboration: 1.Seamless Virtualization with VMware vSphereOne of the biggest advantages of the MedOne and VMware partnership is the ability to offer VMware vSphere, one of the most trusted virtualization platforms in the industry. With vSphere, businesses can consolidate their physical servers into a more efficient virtualized environment, reducing hardware costs and simplifying IT management. MedOne’s cloud infrastructure enhances this by offering secure…

05 Nov

AI Security: How to Protect Your Projects with Hardened ModelKits

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Securing AI systems has become a critical focus as generative AI (GenAI) advances bring new threats that put data, models, and intellectual property at risk. Conventional security strategies fall short of addressing the unique vulnerabilities of AI systems, including adversarial attacks, model poisoning, data breaches, and model theft. Addressing these challenges requires strong security mechanisms. With Jozu Hardened ModelKits, developers and enterprise teams gain essential security features such as model attestation, provenance tracking, verified models, private access controls, model scanning, and inference integrity to safeguard AI applications. This guide covers the primary security challenges in AI and shows how Hardened…

30 Oct

BUILDING A CYBERSECURITY DETECTION AND MONITORING LAB BY LEVERAGING LOCAL VIRTUAL MACHINES (VMs) AND MICROSOFT AZURE

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Introduction Learning and implementing cybersecurity concepts can be challenging without access to practical and secure infrastructure. These challenges are further complicated by budget constraints that limit the acquisition of necessary hardware resources. To overcome this, this home lab guide provides instructions for provisioning, configuring, optimizing, and securing IT infrastructure using a combination of local virtual machines (VMs) and cloud resources for practical use cases. This approach enables deploying less resource-intensive tools on local VMs while leveraging the cloud for more demanding applications. It simulates both on-premises and cloud environments. The knowledge gained here can aid in production and large-scale, enterprise-level…

29 Oct

Essential SQL Database Security Practices to Protect Your Data

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Securing SQL databases involves multiple best practices to safeguard data from unauthorized access, prevent SQL injection attacks, and ensure overall integrity. Here's a hands-on guide, focusing on practical steps you can implement immediately for database security. Step 1: Use Parameterized Queries Parameterized queries prevent SQL injection by separating SQL code from data. Instead of embedding user inputs directly into SQL statements, they are treated as parameters, keeping the structure of the query intact. Example in PHP: Suppose you want to retrieve user data based on an ID parameter: <?php // Connection to the database $conn = new PDO('mysql:host=localhost;dbname=my_database', 'username', 'password');…

23 Oct

Announcing Integration between Apache APISIX and open-appsec WAF

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Introduction open-appsec WAF is excited to announce a new integration with the open-source API gateway Apache APISIX. This new collaboration between the open-appsec and API7 teams now allows users to protect their web APIs and other web services exposed by Apache APISIX against unknown and known attack types effectively based on open-appsec's advanced machine-learning-based technology and also adds several more enhanced security capabilities. About Apache APISIX Apache APISIX is a modern, flexible, and high-performance open-source API gateway solution designed to handle various use cases in microservices and cloud-native architectures. Its primary purpose is to facilitate API management by serving as…

18 Oct

You Can Now See the Code That Helped End Apartheid

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John Graham-Cumming doesn’t ping me often, but when he does I pay attention. His day job is the CTO of the security giant Cloudflare, but he is also a lay historian of technology, guided by a righteous compass. He might be best known for successfully leading a campaign to force the UK government to apologize to the legendary computer scientist Alan Turing for prosecuting him for homosexuality and essentially harassing him to death. So when he DM’d me to say that he had “a hell of a story”—promising “one-time pads! 8-bit computers! Flight attendants smuggling floppies full of random numbers…

17 Oct

This Prompt Can Make an AI Chatbot Identify and Extract Personal Details From Your Chats

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The researchers say that if the attack were carried out in the real world, people could be socially engineered into believing the unintelligible prompt might do something useful, such as improve their CV. The researchers point to numerous websites that provide people with prompts they can use. They tested the attack by uploading a CV to conversations with chatbots, and it was able to return the personal information contained within the file.Earlence Fernandes, an assistant professor at UCSD who was involved in the work, says the attack approach is fairly complicated as the obfuscated prompt needs to identify personal information,…

14 Oct

The best password manager for 2024

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Think about your digital footprint. How many accounts have you created online since you first started using the internet? How many of those use the same passwords, so you have an easier time logging in? It’s a habit we’ve all fallen into, but it greatly weakens our ability to stay secure online. Just one password leak can compromise dozens of accounts.Password managers can help you break that habit. It’ll do the tedious work of creating and storing various passwords to up your security posture without testing your memorization skills. But there are dozens of password managers available now — that’s…

14 Oct

Building a Password Strength Checker in Python

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Hello again, and welcome to today's tutorial. Today, we are going to build a simple password strength checker using Python. We’ll explain how the code works step-by-step and give tips on how to improve your passwords. Why is Password Strength Important? A weak password makes it easier for hackers to guess or crack using various methods, putting your personal information at risk. A strong password is: Long enough (at least 12 characters) Uses a mix of letters (both uppercase and lowercase), numbers, and special characters Avoids common or predictable words Let’s get started by building a tool that assesses the…