Auditable Agents

LLM agents call tools, query databases, delegate tasks, and trigger external side effects. Once an agent system can act in the world, the question is no longer only whether harmful actions can be prevented--it is whether those actions remain answerable after deployment. We distinguish...

New threat actor, UAT-9921, leverages VoidLink framework in campaigns

Cisco Talos recently discovered a new threat actor, UAT-9921, leveraging VoidLink in campaigns. Their activities may go as far back as 2019, even without VoidLink. The VoidLink compile-on-demand feature lays down the foundations for AI-enabled attack frameworks, which can create tools on-demand f...

WiFiPenTester: Advancing Wireless Ethical Hacking with Governed GenAI

Wireless ethical hacking relies heavily on skilled practitioners manually interpreting reconnaissance results and executing complex, time-sensitive sequences of commands to identify vulnerable targets, capture authentication handshakes, and assess password resilience; a process that is inherently...

cosign 数据伪造问题漏洞

cosign is a container signing, verification and storage in an OCI registry in the United States. A data forgery issue vulnerability exists in Cosign versions prior to 2.6.2 and prior to 3.0.4, which stems from a specially crafted Cosign package being able to validate successfully even if the...

The Impact of Robotic Process Automation (RPA) on Identity and Access Management

As enterprises refine their strategies for handling Non-Human Identities NHIs, Robotic Process Automation RPA has become a powerful tool for streamlining operations and enhancing security. However, since RPA bots have varying levels of access to sensitive information, enterprises must be prepared...

CVE-2025-59339

CVE-2025-59339 affects The Bastion’s session-recording workflow: the osh-encrypt-rsync script rotates and encrypts ttyrec files using GPG keys, but it silently fails to apply signatures even when signing is requested. This can undermine data integrity of archived ttyrec files. Affected component ...

Embedding Trust at Scale: Physics-Aware Neural Watermarking for Secure and Verifiable Data Pipelines

We present a robust neural watermarking framework for scientific data integrity, targeting high-dimensional fields common in climate modeling and fluid simulations. Using a convolutional autoencoder, binary messages are invisibly embedded into structured data such as temperature, vorticity, and...

Blockchain Powered Edge Intelligence for U-Healthcare in Privacy Critical and Time Sensitive Environment

Edge Intelligence EI serves as a critical enabler for privacy-preserving systems by providing AI-empowered computation and distributed caching services at the edge, thereby minimizing latency and enhancing data privacy. The integration of blockchain technology further augments EI frameworks by...

Chances and Challenges of the Model Context Protocol in Digital Forensics and Incident Response

Large language models hold considerable promise for supporting forensic investigations, but their widespread adoption is hindered by a lack of transparency, explainability, and reproducibility. This paper explores how the emerging Model Context Protocol can address these challenges and support th...

A Hitchhiker'S Guide to Privacy-Preserving Cryptocurrencies: a Survey on Anonymity, Confidentiality, and Auditability

Cryptocurrencies and central bank digital currencies CBDCs are reshaping the monetary landscape, offering transparency and efficiency while raising critical concerns about user privacy and regulatory compliance. This survey provides a comprehensive and technically grounded overview of...

Lara: Lightweight Anonymous Authentication with Asynchronous Revocation Auditability

Anonymous authentication is a technique that allows to combine access control with privacy preservation. Typically, clients use different pseudonyms for each access, hindering providers from correlating their activities. To perform the revocation of pseudonyms in a privacy preserving manner is...

Decentralized Vulnerability Disclosure Via Permissioned Blockchain: a Secure, Transparent Alternative to Centralized CVE Management

This paper proposes a decentralized, blockchain-based system for the publication of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs, aiming to mitigate the limitations of the current centralized model primarily overseen by MITRE. The proposed architecture leverages a permissioned blockchain, wherein on...

A Blockchain-Based Approach for Secure and Transparent E-Faktur Issuance in Indonesia'S VAT Reporting System

The implementation of blockchain technology in tax administration offers promising improvements in security, transparency, and efficiency. This paper presents the design of a blockchain-based e-Faktur system aimed at addressing the challenges of issuing and verifying tax invoices within Indonesia...

CVE-2023-45140

The Bastion provides authentication, authorization, traceability and auditability for SSH accesses. SCP and SFTP plugins don't honor group-based JIT MFA. Establishing a SCP/SFTP connection through The Bastion via a group access where MFA is enforced does not ask for additional factor. This abnorm...

Authorization

The Bastion provides authentication, authorization, traceability and auditability for SSH accesses. SCP and SFTP plugins don't honor group-based JIT MFA. Establishing a SCP/SFTP connection through The Bastion via a group access where MFA is enforced does not ask for additional factor. This abnorm...

CVE-2023-45140

CVE-2023-45140 describes a bypass in The Bastion where SCP/SFTP plugins do not honor group-based JIT MFA, allowing a group access with MFA enforced to establish a connection without an extra factor. This affects per-group-based JIT MFA; Immediate MFA, per-plugin JIT MFA, and per-account JIT MFA a...

CVE-2023-45140 Group-based JIT MFA bypass on scp and sftp in The Bastion

The Bastion provides authentication, authorization, traceability and auditability for SSH accesses. SCP and SFTP plugins don't honor group-based JIT MFA. Establishing a SCP/SFTP connection through The Bastion via a group access where MFA is enforced does not ask for additional factor. This abnorm...

CVE-2023-45140 Group-based JIT MFA bypass on scp and sftp in The Bastion

The Bastion provides authentication, authorization, traceability and auditability for SSH accesses. SCP and SFTP plugins don't honor group-based JIT MFA. Establishing a SCP/SFTP connection through The Bastion via a group access where MFA is enforced does not ask for additional factor. This abnorm...

The-Bastion - Authentication, Authorization, Traceability And Auditability For SSH Accesses

Bastions are a cluster of machines used as the unique entry point by operational teams such as sysadmins, developers, database admins, ... to securely connect to devices servers, virtual machines, cloud instances, network equipment, ..., usually using ssh. Bastions provides mechanisms for...

Data governance and retention in your Microsoft 365 tenant—a secure and highly capable solution

Data governance has relied on transferring data to a third-party for hosting an archive service. Emails, documents, chat logs, and third-party data Bloomberg, Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. must be saved in a way that it can’t be changed and won’t be lost. Data governance is part of IT at the enterpris...