The Parallax

JANUARY 22, 2018

Its success was predicated not on “zero-day” vulnerabilities or new forms of malicious software, but rather on older, known malware delivered via an all-too-familiar method: phishing. The malware included hacked versions of end-to-end encrypted communication apps Signal and WhatsApp.

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Lacework

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Workload: Mass scanning for vulnerabilities Workloads, which include computing resources like Linux and Windows hosts, are susceptible to compromise. Once the scanning process uncovers possible targets, the next phase is exploitation, where the threat actors deploy various forms of malware. Malware (e.g.,

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Tenable

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

In addition, new group tasked with addressing the quantum computing threat draws big tech names. Volt Typhoon, a Chinese government-sponsored hacker group, could, at a moment’s notice, severely disrupt U.S. Plus, ransomware gangs netted $1 billion-plus in 2023. And much more! So said cybersecurity agencies from the U.S.,

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

A group at Berkeley has built a robot that uses reinforcement learning to teach itself to walk from scratch–i.e., Kerla is a Linux-like operating system kernel written in Rust that can run most Linux executables. I doubt this will ever be integrated into Linux, but it’s yet another sign that Rust has joined the big time.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JULY 5, 2022

This month, large models are even more in the news than last month: the open source Bloom model is almost finished, Google’s LaMDA is good enough that it can trick people into thinking it’s sentient, and DALL-E has gotten even better at drawing what you ask. Can the “ Open Metaverse ” be the future of the Internet? Programming.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

agencies, the Open Source Security Foundation released a best practice guide for securing npm , the largest package ecosystem that undergirds countless software projects. . The Open Source Software Security Mobilization Plan ” (The Linux Foundation and The Open Source Security Foundation).

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Altexsoft

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

You’ll also be introduced to nine open-source tools you can use to automate and streamline your incident response processes. The following are popular, free, open-source tools you can use to automate or streamline your incident response process. You can use GRR in a Docker container or on standard Linux systems.

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Tenable

MARCH 29, 2022

CRI-O is an open source container runtime engine that is used to share kernel resources among applications running on a container node. This could further allow the attacker to spread malware or exfiltrate sensitive data, making it a useful flaw for ransomware groups in particular. Proof of concept. How Tenable.cs

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 2, 2021

There’s a new technique for protecting natural language systems from attack by misinformation and malware bots: using honeypots to capture attackers’ key phrases proactively, and incorporate defenses into the training process. A massive ransomware attack by the REvil cybercrime group exploited supply chain vulnerabilities. AI and Data.

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Lacework

JULY 21, 2022

Lacework Labs often sees remote access methods co-deployed with cryptomining malware (IRC bots, dropped ssh keys, etc.). Finally, threat groups focused on ransomware or extortion campaigns could purchase and abuse this access for monetary gain. This often results in the first payload (e.g.,

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Palo Alto Networks

MAY 7, 2020

Based on the numerous “proof of concept” (POC) tests we have conducted around the world, we discovered that IoT botnet activity makes up a very large proportion of the malware in mobile networks today. Recently, GSMA collaborated with a group of service providers and vendors to develop a new security reference document, FS.37,

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Palo Alto Networks

JUNE 7, 2021

The Unit 42 cybersecurity consulting group published research on the first known malware targeting Windows containers, which was discovered by Unit 42 researcher Daniel Prizmant and named Siloscape. Diagram of Windows container (source: Microsoft). Diagram of Kubernetes cluster (source: Kubernetes).

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CTOvision

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

Prior to joining EMC, Hittle was a member of the Ultra Electronics ProLogic senior management team, where he served for six years in key leadership positions, including Vice President Technology Applications, CTO, and Group Deputy General Manager. He likes shiny objects. Webster Mudge. where he was their CSO. Produced by.

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CTOvision

JANUARY 18, 2015

Prior to joining EMC, Hittle was a member of the Ultra Electronics ProLogic senior management team, where he served for six years in key leadership positions, including Vice President Technology Applications, CTO, and Group Deputy General Manager. He likes shiny objects. Webster Mudge. where he was their CSO. Produced by.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 2, 2024

There’s also an open source OpenDevin project on GitHub. A supply chain attack added a back door to Linux systems through the widely used xz package. Fortunately, this attack was discovered before the package was incorporated into the leading Linux distributions. Artificial Intelligence What does open source mean for AI?

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

APRIL 5, 2022

One group has written a tool that creates regular expressions from verbal descriptions; another tool generates Kubernetes configurations from verbal descriptions. Polycoder is an open source code generator (like Copilot) that uses GPT-2, which is also open sourced. Android phones are also vulnerable.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2024

Our own theory is that it’s a reaction to GPT models leaking proprietary code and abusing open source licenses; that could cause programmers to be wary of public code repositories. It’s now used in operating systems (Linux kernel components), tool development, and even enterprise software. But those are only guesses.

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Lacework

MARCH 29, 2022

They never miss an opportunity to cash in, whether they take advantage of common cloud configuration mistakes, target software supply chains, or adapt malware to evade detection. This malicious update opened up Linux systems to receive and run the open-source cryptocurrency miner, XMRig. View Infographic.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JUNE 1, 2022

And Allen AI’s Macaw (surely an allusion to Emily Bender and Timnit Gebru’s Stochastic Parrots paper) is open source, one tenth the size of GPT-3, and claims to be more accurate. It is freely available and open-source. New tools allow workflow management across groups of spreadsheets. Artificial Intelligence.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

OCTOBER 4, 2022

A group of researchers are talking about bringing attention mechanisms to resource-constrained TinyML applications. Its accuracy is impressive and, unlike other OpenAI products, it is open source. Stephen O’Grady’s article on bait-and-switch open source licenses is a must-read. Programming.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

MAY 3, 2022

A group building language models for the Maori people shows that AI for indigenous languages require different ways of thinking about artificial intelligence, data, and data rights. Harvard and the Linux Foundation have produced Census II , which lists thousands of the most popular open source libraries and attempts to rank their usage.

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Tenable

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

and Japan warn about a China-linked group that’s stealthily compromising network devices. Source: InformationWeek’s “Cyber Risk and Resiliency Report: How CIOs Are Dueling Disaster in 2023” report, August 2023) To get more details, read the report’s announcement , download the report and check out an infographic. In addition, the U.S.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 22, 2023

Called Mozilla.ai , the newly forged company’s mission isn’t to build just any AI — its mission is to build AI that’s open source and “trustworthy,” according to Mark Surman, the executive president of Mozilla and the head of Mozilla.ai. Surman describes Mozilla.ai ” Mozilla.ai

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

AUGUST 2, 2022

Bloom , the open and transparent large language model developed by the BigScience group, is finished ! Unlike all other large language models, Bloom was developed in public, and is open to the public. Benchmarks, training code, and models are all open source. Don’t over-allocate memory.

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Codegiant

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Review and collaborate on open source and private projects. User Review “ I highly recommend GitHub for managing open source projects.” Jenkins Jenkins is an open-source automation tool for providing continuous integration and delivery environments for any combination of languages and source code repositories.

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Codegiant

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Review and collaborate on open source and private projects. User Review “ I highly recommend GitHub for managing open source projects.” Lack of authorization rule as separate users or groups cannot be assigned to separate views or jobs. Individual/Group Task Assignment. Community support.

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O'Reilly Media - Ideas

JANUARY 25, 2022

Results in each group of topics are normalized to 1, so items within the same group can be compared (Java to Python but not Java to Ethereum, for example). Content about privacy is up 90%; threat modeling is up 58%; identity is up 50%; application security is up 45%; malware is up 34%; and zero trust is up 23%. O’Reilly Answers.

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