Blog Digest October 2024

Blog Digest October 2024

This is what is going to change in Cybersecurity Autumn

Marc Ruef
by Marc Ruef
on October 30, 2024
time to read: 6 minutes

The scip Blog Digest is a monthly released summary of the most important, thrilling and crazy posts from the international blogosphere. While reading this digest it remains very easy to keep up to date with the events of cybersecurity and advanced technology. Follow our team on 𝕏 and the company on LinkedIn, to get the most recent news.

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‘Alien’ signal decoded

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‘Nudify’ deepfake bots remove clothes from victims in minutes, and millions are using them

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AI girlfriend site breached, user fantasies stolen

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AI hallucinations can pose a risk to your cybersecurity

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An AI Company Published a Chatbot Based on a Murdered Woman. Her Family Is Outraged.

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Are hardware supply chain attacks ‘cyber attacks?’

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Bugging device found in my bathroom after Netanyahu visit, claims Boris Johnson

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ChatGPT-4o Guardrail Jailbreak: Hex Encoding for Writing CVE Exploits

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Cisco investigates breach after stolen data for sale on hacking forum

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CVE Program Celebrates 25 Years of Impact!

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Devs gaining little (if anything) from AI coding assistants

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Dubai’s Emirates airline bans pagers, walkie-talkies after device attacks in Lebanon

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From Bugs to Breaches: 25 Significant CVEs As MITRE CVE Turns 25

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Google unveils invisible ‘watermark’ for AI-generated text

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Hacking Kia: Remotely Controlling Cars With Just a License Plate

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HP printers apparently have AI now, because of course they do

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Hyundai developing hydrogen-powered military tank with rapid acceleration, quiet driving and stealth features

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Large language models reduce public knowledge sharing on online Q&A platforms

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NIST proposes barring some of the most nonsensical password rules

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Pluralistic: Cars bricked by bankrupt EV company will stay bricked (10 Oct 2024)

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Robot vacuum yells racial slur at family after being hacked

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San Francisco to pay $212 million to end reliance on 5.25-inch floppy disks

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SpaceX catches returning rocket in mid-air, turning a fanciful idea into reality

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The ‘Godfather of AI’ Predicted I Wouldn’t Have a Job. He Was Wrong.

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The weird history of the barcode

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Two Nobel Prizes for AI, and Two Paths Forward

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U.S. Wiretap Systems Targeted in China-Linked Hack

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Using artificial intelligence to document the hidden RNA virosphere

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US offers $10 million bounty for members of Iranian hacking gang

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Ward Christensen, BBS inventor and architect of our online age, dies at age 78

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Who owns your shiny new Pixel 9 phone? You can’t say no to Google’s surveillance

About the Author

Marc Ruef

Marc Ruef has been working in information security since the late 1990s. He is well-known for his many publications and books. The last one called The Art of Penetration Testing is discussing security testing in detail. He is a lecturer at several faculties, like ETH, HWZ, HSLU and IKF. (ORCID 0000-0002-1328-6357)

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