Blog Digest April 2025

Blog Digest April 2025

These are the Changes of Cybersecurity Springtime

Marc Ruef
by Marc Ruef
on April 30, 2025
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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AI is getting ‘creepy good’ at geo-guessing

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AI proves fingerprints are not unique, upending law enforcement

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America Underestimates the Difficulty of Bringing Manufacturing Back

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An AI Model Has Officially Passed the Turing Test

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As CISA Downsizes, Where Can Enterprises Get Support?

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ChatGPT can now remember and reference all your previous chats

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CISA extends funding to ensure ‘no lapse in critical CVE services’

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Crate-training Tiamat, un-calling Cthulhu:Taming the UB monsters in C++

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CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun

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Data Protection Commission Announces commencement of inquiry into X Internet Unlimited Company (XIUC)

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DeepSeek Breach Opens Floodgates to Dark Web

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Discord Begins Testing Facial Scans for Age Verification

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EU gives staff ‘burner phones, laptops’ for US visits

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Fintech founder charged with fraud after ‘AI’ shopping app found to be powered by humans in the Philippines

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Fired Disney employee gets 3 years in prison for hacking and changing menus

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Google-Backed Chatbot Platform Caught Hosting AI Impersonations of 14-Year-Old User Who Died by Suicide

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Guillotine: Hypervisors for Isolating Malicious AIs

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Here Are the Attack Plans That Trump’s Advisers Shared on Signal

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I drove 300 miles in rural Virginia, then asked police to send me their public surveillance footage of my car. Here’s what I learned.

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Like to play alone? Ubisoft is still watching you!

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LLMs No Longer Require Powerful Servers: Researchers Introduce a New AI Approach to Rapidly Compress Large Language Models

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Man Alarmed as His Cognitive Skills Decay After Outsourcing Them to AI

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Microsoft’s Copilot can now browse the web and perform actions for you

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Pentagon’s ‘SWAT team of nerds’ resigns en masse

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PentestGPT – AI-Powered Penetration Testing Assistant

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Ransomware Reaches A Record High, But Payouts Are Dwindling

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Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit

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Russian Propaganda Has Now Infected Western AI Chatbots New Study

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Sarah Wynn-Williams’s ‘Careless People’

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Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by AI

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Self-Hosting A Cluster On Old Phones

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Shostack + Friends Blog A few thoughts on CVE

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Someone is trying to recruit security researchers in bizarre hacking campaign | TechCrunch

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Tired of all the restarts? Get hotpatching for Windows Server

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Uncle Sam abruptly turns off funding for CVE program. Yes, that CVE program

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Waltz’s team set up at least 20 Signal group chats for crises across the world

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What Trump’s Move Against Krebs, SentinelOne Means For The Cybersecurity Industry: Analysis

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Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?

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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