Cybersecurity

The Rise of the Malicious App

Sep 21, 2023The Hacker NewsSaaS Security / App Security Security teams are familiar with threats emanating from third-party applications that employees add to improve their productivity. These apps are inherently designed to deliver functionality to users by connecting to a “hub” app, such as Salesforce, Google Workspace, or Microsoft 365. Security concerns center on the […]

Cybersecurity

UK passes the Online Safety Bill — and no, it doesn’t ban end-to-end encryption

The British government’s controversial Online Safety Bill finally completed its passage through parliament on Tuesday, marking the end of one of the most (if not the most) fraught episodes in the United Kingdom’s recent legislative history. The origin and intention of the new law — which began three prime ministers and seven secretaries of state […]

Cybersecurity

LLM Guard: Open-source toolkit for securing Large Language Models – Help Net Security

LLM Guard is a toolkit designed to fortify the security of Large Language Models (LLMs). It is designed for easy integration and deployment in production environments. It provides extensive evaluators for both inputs and outputs of LLMs, offering sanitization, detection of harmful language and data leakage, and prevention against prompt injection and jailbreak attacks. LLM […]

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China Accuses U.S. of Decade-Long Cyber Espionage Campaign Against Huawei Servers

Sep 21, 2023THNCyber Espionage / Spyware China’s Ministry of State Security (MSS) has accused the U.S. of breaking into Huawei’s servers, stealing critical data, and implanting backdoors since 2009, amid mounting geopolitical tensions between the two countries. In a message posted on WeChat, the government authority said U.S. intelligence agencies have “done everything possible” to […]