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arXiv:2503.09022v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large language models (LLMs) have been widely applied for their remarkable capability of content generation. However, the practical use of open-source LLMs is hindered by high resource requirements, making deployment expensive and limiting widespread development. The collaborative inference is a promising solution for this problem, in which users collaborate by…
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All because of a Pirates of the Caribbean movie that never happened.
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A US congressional committee has urged Americans to stop using wireless routers made by TP-Link.
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EDR bypass and killer attacks are surging, yet many organizations continue to overlook this threat while they have become over-reliant on this security tool – particularly when preventing ransomware. In this Help Net Security video, John Dwyer, Director of Security Research at Binary Defense, discusses how over-reliance on EDR and lack of monitoring EDR telemetry…
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United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres warned about the increasing backlash against women’s rights worldwide on Tuesday. At the ongoing 69th Commission on the Status of Women, Guterres called for urgent action to safeguard hard-won progress. Guterres warned: Women’s organizations and civil society played a major role in securing those gains. I applaud your efforts. Yet,…
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ePrint Report: A proof of P≠NP (New symmetric encryption algorithm against any linear attacks and differential attacks) Gao Ming P vs NP problem is the most important unresolved problem in the field of computational complexity. Its impact has penetrated into all aspects of algorithm design, especially in the field of cryptography. The security of cryptographic…
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ePrint Report: Protecting Computations Against Continuous Bounded-Communication Leakage Yuval Ishai, Yifan Song We consider the question of protecting a general computation device, modeled by a stateful Boolean circuit, against leakage of partial information about its internal wires. Goyal et al. (FOCS 2016) obtained a solution for the case of bounded-communication leakage, where the wires are…
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Executive Summary Between December 2024 and February 2025, the LevelBlue MDR team saw over a dozen attempts and a handful of successful intrusions by threat actors (TAs). Internally, we broadly attribute these attacks to the Black Basta ransomware gang. As outlined by other cybersecurity researchers’ reporting of similar tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) observed; there…
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This week the Free Software Foundation “backed a lone developer’s brave effort to overturn a pivotal court ruling that threatens to undermine the AGPLv3 — the foundation’s GNU Affero General Public License, version 3,” reports the Register. “At stake is the future of not just the AGPLv3, but the FSF’s widely used GNU Public License…
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US President Donald Trump’s administration filed a motion to dismiss a lawsuit initiated by Biden’s administration against Idaho’s near-total abortion ban on Wednesday. Idaho passed the Defense of Life Act (DLA) in 2020 and was set to take effect on August 25, 2022. The bill bans abortion except in the case of the death of…
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Securing Your Browser Against Cross-Site Scripting (XSS) Attacks Cross-site scripting (XSS) is one of the most common web security vulnerabilities. Despite the fact that it is not frequently exploited, it can cause significant impact. XSS attacks target vulnerabilities in web applications, allowing hackers to inject malicious scripts into a user’s browser. This can lead to…
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President Trump on Friday threatened new sanctions and tariffs on Russia as he ramped up pressure on the Kremlin to agree to a ceasefire and peace settlement with Ukraine. Why it matters: This is the first time since taking office that Trump has issued a public threat against Russia, after taking a softer line toward…
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The United Nations’ World Health Organization (WHO) warned Wednesday that severe funding cuts jeopardize decades of progress in the global fight against Tuberculosis. The warning comes amid rising concerns globally that reduced financial support, especially from the US, could stall or reverse any gains in tuberculosis prevention, diagnosis, and treatment. WHO noted that the funding…
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UN report released on Wednesday found armed groups operating in the Haut Oubangui region of the Central African Republic (CAR) have been carrying out attacks against Muslim communities and Sudanese refugees, resulting in human rights violations. The report, prepared by the UN Human Rights Office and the UN Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in the Central…
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In a policy paper, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, Scale AI CEO Alexandr Wang, and Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks said that the U.S. should not pursue a Manhattan Project-style push to develop AI systems with “superhuman” intelligence, also known as AGI. From a report: The paper, titled “Superintelligence Strategy,” asserts that an…
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Amnesty International published a report on Tuesday exposing Russia’s mistreatment of both Ukrainian prisoners of war (POWs) and civilian captives currently held in detention within Ukraine and Russia. The report determined that Russia’s treatment of detained Ukrainians amounted to war crimes and potentially crimes against humanity. Amnesty researchers interviewed 104 people living in Ukraine between…
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Apple is taking its fight against the UK government’s attempt to access iCloud user data to the Investigatory Powers Tribunal, an independent judicial body that reviews complaints against national security services. According to unnamed sources cited by the Financial Times, Apple’s legal challenge is the first of its kind and…Read Entire Article
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When we founded SpecterOps, one of our core principles was to build a company which brought unique insight into high-capability adversary tradecraft, constantly innovating in research and tooling. We aspired to set the cadence of the cyber security industry through a commitment to benefit our entire security community. Today, I am thrilled to announce that…