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Elon Musk will visit the Pentagon on Friday, President Trump and senior administration members confirmed while strongly denying reports that he’ll be briefed on a plan for a potential war with China.Why it matters: Some lawmakers and ethics experts have raised conflicts of interest concerns about Musk’s role as senior adviser to the president while…
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A secret court hearing on iCloud encryption began on Friday, amid calls in both the UK and US to make the proceedings public. The British government is demanding that Apple create backdoor access, not just for the personal data of British citizens, but for all iCloud users worldwide … more…
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In the cybersecurity arms race, you have access to the same weapons as the bad guys. Just how well-armed are you now?
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In the cybersecurity arms race, you have access to the same weapons as the bad guys. Just how well-armed are you now?
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ePrint Report: A Unified Framework for Succinct Garbling from Homomorphic Secret Sharing Yuval Ishai, Hanjun Li, Huijia Lin A major challenge in cryptography is the construction of succinct garbling schemes that have asymptotically smaller size than Yao’s garbled circuit construction. We present a new framework for succinct garbling that replaces the heavy machinery of most…
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ePrint Report: Disincentivize Collusion in Verifiable Secret Sharing Tiantian Gong, Aniket Kate, Hemanta K. Maji, Hai H. Nguyen In verifiable secret sharing (VSS), a dealer shares a secret input among several parties, ensuring each share is verifiable. Motivated by its applications in the blockchain space, we focus on a VSS where parties holding shares are…
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GitHub is introducing a free secret risk assessment tool to help development organizations understand their secret leak exposure across GitHub. Available on April 1 in the Security tab, this tool gives admins and developers a clear view of where secrets are exposed across their organization, helping them take proactive steps to secure their environments. Screenshot…
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Recently, an international law enforcement coalition, spearheaded by the United States Secret Service, has taken decisive action against The post Secret Service-Led Operation Seizes Garantex Cryptocurrency Exchange appeared first on Cybersecurity News.
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arXiv:2503.03146v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Fine-tuning large language models (LLMs) raises privacy concerns due to the risk of exposing sensitive training data. Federated learning (FL) mitigates this risk by keeping training samples on local devices, but recent studies show that adversaries can still infer private information from model updates in FL. Additionally, LLM parameters are…
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Better protect your file transfers with the MOVEit Cloud Web Application Firewall (WAF). Defend against cyber threats, achieve PCI-DSS 4.0 compliance and simplify security with a fully managed MFT solution. Learn more today!An ever-mounting challenge for IT leaders is the relentless pursuit of bad actors to gain access to their data and systems. The stakes…
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Cut off one head and 100 grow back? Decapitation may not be the way to go Opinion With Apple pulling the plug on at-rest end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for UK users, and Signal threatening to pull out of Sweden if that government demands E2EE backdoors, it’s looking bleak.…
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Smart Secret Scanning: Decoding the Intelligence Behind Cybersecurity Have you ever wondered how some organizations manage to preserve their digital data integrity amidst in technology? It may seem like a mountainous task, but the secrets lie in smart secret scanning and cybersecurity innovations. Let’s unpack the Non-Human Identities (NHIs) and the management of their secrets.…
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In this episode, we discuss the UK government’s demand for Apple to create a secret backdoor for accessing encrypted iCloud backups under the Investigatory Powers Act and its potential global implications on privacy. We also discuss the first known case where AI chatbots were used in a stalking indictment, highlighting the dangers of technology misuse…
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Security experts say the ‘draconian’ order would have global ramifications that make this a privacy ‘emergency for us all’ © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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The Taliban government of Afghanistan is reeling after unidentified hackers successfully carried out a massive cyber attack against its computer systems and published over 50GB of stolen documents and files online. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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It was 8 May 1945, Victory in Europe Day. With the German military’s unconditional surrender, the European part of World War II came to an end. Alan Turing and his assistant Donald Bayley celebrated victory in their quiet English way, by taking a long walk together. They had been working side by side for more…
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A federal grand jury has indicted an Albuquerque man for interstate communications containing a threat against then President Donald J. Trump.
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A security vulnerability in DeepSeek, a prominent Chinese AI startup, exposed a publicly accessible ClickHouse database containing highly sensitive information, including over a million lines of log streams. The breach, which included chat logs, API keys, backend details, and operational metadata, has raised alarms about the security practices of rapidly growing AI startups. DeepSeek has…
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President Trump on Wednesday tapped Sean Curran, his special agent in charge, to be the next director of the U.S. Secret Service.Why it matters: Curran will be tasked with leading the agency Congress reported had operational failures during the first assassination attempt against Trump during the presidential campaign.Curran was with the president elect during a…