Blog Digest January 2025

Blog Digest January 2025

The new Cybersecurity Year has just begun

Marc Ruef
by Marc Ruef
on January 30, 2025
time to read: 5 minutes

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‘First AI software engineer’ is bad at its job

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After shutting down several popular emulators, Nintendo admits emulation is legal

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AI Mistakes Are Very Different from Human Mistakes

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Apple, Tesla, Spotify: The tech announcements that never happened in 2024

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APT vs. Cybercriminal Groups: Understanding Their Differences and Overlaps

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Bad Tenable plugin updates take down Nessus agents worldwide

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CIAs chatbot stands in for world leaders

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Corporate Simulacra

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Evolution journal editors resign en masse

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Hacker infects 18,000 “script kiddies” with fake malware builder

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How we estimate the risk from prompt injection attacks on AI systems

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iMessage text gets recipient to disable phishing protection so they can be phished

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iPhone and iPad Acquisition Methods: Yet Another Comparison

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It’s remarkably easy to inject new medical misinformation into LLMs

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Meta under fire for auto-following Trump & Vance, Blocking Democrat hashtags

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Microsoft and OpenAI have a financial definition of AGI: report

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Microsoft sues service for creating illicit content with its AI platform

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Millions of Accounts Vulnerable due to Google’s OAuth Flaw Truffle Security Co.

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New DC Think Tank Staffed Entirely By Robots (Seriously)

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Poker Cheaters Allegedly Use Tiny Hidden Cameras to Spot Dealt Cards

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School’s $1 Million AI Gun Detection System Fails to Detect Weapon Before Fatal School Shooting

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Shifting Cyber Norms: Microsoft security POST-ing to you

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ShredOS is an entire OS just for destroying data

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The AI Hype Index: Robot pets, simulated humans, and Apple’s AI text summaries

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The Evolution of Cybercrime Cartels: From Lone Wolves to Sophisticated Syndicates

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Trump pardons Silk Road creator Ross Ulbricht

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Under Trump, US Cyberdefense Loses Its Head

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US restricts Switzerland’s access to AI chips

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You Can’t Trust Hackers, and Other Data Breach Verification Tales

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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