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arXiv:2503.01908v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large Language Model (LLM) agents equipped with external tools have become increasingly powerful for handling complex tasks such as web shopping, automated email replies, and financial trading. However, these advancements also amplify the risks of adversarial attacks, particularly when LLM agents can access sensitive external functionalities. Moreover, because LLM agents…
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“We need a license to allow us to make some of the basic functionality of Firefox possible,” Mozilla explained Wednesday in a clarification a recent Terms of Use update. “Without it, we couldn’t use information typed into Firefox, for example. It does NOT give us ownership of your data or a right to use it…
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New submitter SharkByte writes: Mozilla just updated its Terms of Use and Privacy Policy for Firefox with a very disturbing “You Give Mozilla Certain Rights and Permissions” clause: When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and…
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Agentic AI, which consists of systems that autonomously take action based on high-level goals, is becoming integral to enterprise security, threat intelligence, and automation. While these systems present significant potential, they also introduce new risks that CISOs must address. This article examines the key security threats associated with Agentic AI and outlines strategies for mitigation.…
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As egg prices skyrocket, you too may be considering if it would be cheaper going straight to the source and raising your own flock. As the steward of four sweet but dimwitted backyard chickens, I’ll caution that it’s more expensive than you think—but with prices spiking as high as $1 per egg in some areas,…
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Black Basta’s Internal Chats Leak: Cybercriminals Are Their Own Worst Enemies The infamous Black Basta ransomware gang has once again found itself in turmoil. On February 11, 2025, a major leak exposed the group’s internal Matrix chat logs, allegedly because they targeted Russian banks. This leak echoes past incidents like the infamous Conti leaks, highlighting…
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Eighty percent of workers access company data from personal devices – we need a new security approach that reflects this new reality.
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Eighty percent of workers access company data from personal devices – we need a new security approach that reflects this new reality.
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A teacher in high school once quoted an old proverb to me: “Do something you love, and you’ll never work a day in your life!” Perhaps 18-year-old Alan Filion encountered a similar teacher during his school years in California, because once Filion learned that he truly loved making fake “swatting” calls to law enforcement—well, he…
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Kumar Hemant reports: Let’s Secure Insurance Brokers Pvt Ltd., a prominent Indian insurance brokerage firm, has reportedly fallen victim to ransomware. The perpetrators, identified as the Kill Security (alias KillSec) group, claim to have gained unauthorised access to the company’s data, sparking concerns over potential data breaches. India has increasingly become a focal point for…
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President Trump plans to have a “whole big discussion very shortly” on the Federal Emergency Management Agency because he’d “rather see the states take care of their own problems,” according to an interview broadcast Wednesday evening.Why it matters: Trump has signed a multitude of executive orders since taking office again on Monday and he indicated…
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If you want a picture of the future, imagine your infosec team stamping on software forever Microsoft brainiacs who probed the security of more than 100 of the software giant’s own generative AI products came away with a sobering message: The models amplify existing security risks and create new ones.…
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Greenland must make its own decisions about independence from Denmark, Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen told President-elect Trump in a Wednesday phone call.The big picture: Trump, since his first term, has repeatedly floated the idea of the U.S. buying Greenland even though the island’s leaders have said it is not for sale.The issue has taken on…
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Denmark is bolstering defense spending in Greenland, said a Danish official Tuesday who called the announcement’s timing with President-elect Trump’s suggestion that the U.S. should own the territory an “irony of fate.”The big picture: Danish Defense Minister Troels Lund Poulsen told the outlet Jyllands-Posten on Tuesday that Denmark would spend a “double-digit billion amount” in…
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“The Cybertruck’s weight, stiff structure, and sharp design have raised valid concerns,” she tells WIRED. “Any loophole allowing these vehicles onto [UK] streets needs to be quickly closed.”
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In this post, we describe our in-depth investigation into a threat actor to which we have assigned the identifier MUT-1244. MUT-1224 uses two initial access vectors to compromise their victims, both leveraging the same second-stage payload: a *phishing campaign targeting thousands of academic researchers and a large number of trojanized GitHub repositories, such as proof-of-concept…
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This article is part of our exclusive IEEE Journal Watch series in partnership with IEEE Xplore.