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Cyber Insurance Terms Drive Companies To Invest More in Security, Report Finds
/in General NewsApproximately three-quarters of companies have made investments in cyber defense in order to qualify for cyber insurance, according to a report by Sophos and Vanson Bourne.
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Polyfill Domain Shut Down as Owner Disputes Accusations of Malicious Activity
/in General NewsNamecheap shut down polyfill.io amid reports of malicious activity, but the Chinese owner claims it has good intentions.
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CISA Adds GeoServer, Linux Kernel, and Roundcube Webmail Bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog
/in General NewsThe US cybersecurity agency CISA has issued a warning about cyber threat actors exploiting vulnerabilities in GeoServer (CVE-2022-24816), the Linux kernel (CVE-2022-2586), and Roundcube Webmail (CVE-2020-13965).
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Mitigating Skeleton Key, a New Type of Generative AI Jailbreak Technique
/in General NewsMicrosoft has discovered a new type of jailbreak attack called Skeleton Key. This technique uses a multi-turn strategy to make the model ignore its guardrails, allowing it to generate forbidden content or override its decision-making rules.
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Researchers Warn of Flaws in Widely Used Industrial Gas Analysis Equipment
/in General NewsMultiple security flaws have been disclosed in Emerson Rosemount gas chromatographs that could be exploited by malicious actors to obtain sensitive information, induce a denial-of-service (DoS) condition, and even execute arbitrary commands.
The flaws impact GC370XA, GC700XA, and GC1500XA and reside in versions 4.1.5 and prior.
According to operational technology (OT) security firm Claroty, the
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Xeno RAT Spread via .gg Domains and GitHub
/in General NewsXenoRAT is being used by North Korean hackers and other actors targeting the gaming community. It is being spread through .gg domains and a GitHub repository disguised as Roblox scripting tools.
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California Privacy Regulator to Partner With French Data Authority
/in General NewsThe California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) has signed a partnership agreement with France’s Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) to conduct joint research and share investigative findings on data privacy issues.
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Vanna AI Prompt Injection Vulnerability Enables RCE
/in General NewsThe Vanna AI library has been found to have a vulnerability (CVE-2024-5565) that could allow for remote code execution (RCE) due to a prompt injection issue related to the Plotly script.
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TeamViewer Detects Security Breach in Corporate IT Environment
/in General NewsTeamViewer on Thursday disclosed it detected an “irregularity” in its internal corporate IT environment on June 26, 2024.
“We immediately activated our response team and procedures, started investigations together with a team of globally renowned cyber security experts and implemented necessary remediation measures,” the company said in a statement.
It further noted that its corporate IT
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No Patches for Hospital Temperature Monitors’ Critical Flaws
/in General NewsResearchers at Nozomi Networks uncovered four vulnerabilities in Sensor Net Connect and three flaws in the Thermoscan IP desktop application, both made by a division of French firm Proges Plus.
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