Cheating on Quantum Computing Benchmarks

Peter Gutmann and Stephan Neuhaus have a new paper--I think it's new, even though it has a March 2025 date--that makes the argument that we shouldn't trust any of the quantum factorization benchmarks, because everyone has been cooking the books: Similarly, quantum factorisation is performed using...

Unlocking the Power of Amazon Security Lake for Proactive Security

Security is a central challenge in modern application development and maintenance, requiring not just traditional practices but also a deep understanding of application architecture and data flow. While organizations now have access to rich data like logs and telemetry, the real challenge lies in...

AI-generated image watermarks can be easily removed, say researchers

Now that AI can make fake images that look real, how can we know what's legitimate and what isn't? One of the primary ways has been the use of defensive watermarking, which means embedding invisible markers in AI-generated images to show they were made up. Now, researchers have broken that...

Quantum Software Security Challenges within Shared Quantum Computing Environments

The number of qubits in quantum computers keeps growing, but most quantum programs remain relatively small because of the noisy nature of the underlying quantum hardware. This might lead quantum cloud providers to explore increased hardware utilization, and thus profitability through means such a...

Rethinking HSM and TPM Security in the Cloud: Real-World Attacks and Next-Gen Defenses

As organizations rapidly migrate to the cloud, the security of cryptographic key management has become a growing concern. Hardware Security Modules HSMs and Trusted Platform Modules TPMs, traditionally seen as the gold standard for securing encryption keys and digital trust, are increasingly...

Metaverse Security and Privacy Research: a Systematic Review

The rapid growth of metaverse technologies, including virtual worlds, augmented reality, and lifelogging, has accelerated their adoption across diverse domains. This rise exposes users to significant new security and privacy challenges due to sociotechnical complexity, pervasive connectivity, and...

Quantum Blockchain Survey: Foundations, Trends, and Gaps

Quantum computing poses fundamental risks to classical blockchain systems by undermining widely used cryptographic primitives. In response, two major research directions have emerged: post-quantum blockchains, which integrate quantum-resistant algorithms, and quantum blockchains, which leverage...

Cloud Cost Conundrum: Rising Expenses Hinder AI Innovation in Europe

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CVE-2025-48795

A log processing flaw was found in Apache CXF. Large stream-based messages are stored as temporary files on the local file system, read into memory, and then logged. This flaw allows an attacker to cause a denial of service attack by triggering an out-of-memory exception. Additionally, it is...

Tradecraft in the Information Age

Long article on the difficulty impossibility? of human spying in the age of ubiquitous digital surveillance...

Exploit for CVE-2025-49113

Roundcube RCE Lab CVE-2025-49113 !Open in GitHub Codespac...

Patch, track, repeat

Welcome to this week's edition of the Threat Source newsletter. We've made it halfway through 2025 already! It's been a while since I last wrote about CVEs and how free support for Windows 10 will end on October 14, 2025, leaving you with no more security fixes. While the CVE system remains the...

Autonomous AI-Based Cybersecurity Framework for Critical Infrastructure: Real-Time Threat Mitigation

Critical infrastructure systems, including energy grids, healthcare facilities, transportation networks, and water distribution systems, are pivotal to societal stability and economic resilience. However, the increasing interconnectivity of these systems exposes them to various cyber threats,...

CVE-2025-45479

Insufficient security mechanisms for created containers in educoder challenges v1.0 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via injecting crafted content into a container...

A Survey on Artificial Noise for Physical Layer Security: Opportunities, Technologies, Guidelines, Advances, and Trends

Due to the broadcast nature of wireless communications, physical-layer security has attracted increasing concerns from both academia and industry. Artificial noise AN, as one of the promising physical-layer security techniques, is capable of utilizing the spatial degree-of-freedom of channels to...

Taming Data Challenges in ML-Based Security Tasks: Lessons from Integrating Generative AI

Machine learning-based supervised classifiers are widely used for security tasks, and their improvement has been largely focused on algorithmic advancements. We argue that data challenges that negatively impact the performance of these classifiers have received limited attention. We address the...

CVE-2025-45479

Insufficient security mechanisms for created containers in educoder challenges v1.0 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via injecting crafted content into a container...

CVE-2025-45479

Insufficient security mechanisms for created containers in educoder challenges v1.0 allow attackers to execute arbitrary code via injecting crafted content into a container...

CVE-2025-45479

The educoder challenges platform, specifically version 1.0 , is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution due to insufficient security mechanisms for created containers. Attackers can exploit this by injecting crafted content into a container. As a temporary mitigation measure, users are advised to ...

PT-2025-28200 · Unknown · Educoder Challenges

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: educoder challenges version 1.0 Description: The issue is related to insufficient security mechanisms for created containers, allowing attackers to execute arbitrary code by injecting crafted content into a container. Recommendations: For...