Vulnerability Detection with Interprocedural Context in Multiple Languages: Assessing Effectiveness and Cost of Modern LLMs

Large Language Models LLMs have been a promising way for automated vulnerability detection. However, most prior studies have explored the use of LLMs to detect vulnerabilities only within single functions, disregarding those related to interprocedural dependencies. These studies overlook...

A Defender-Attacker-Defender Model for Optimizing the Resilience of Hospital Networks to Cyberattacks

Considering the increasing frequency of cyberattacks affecting multiple hospitals simultaneously, improving resilience at a network level is essential. Various countermeasures exist to improve resilience against cyberattacks, such as deploying controls that strengthen IT infrastructures to limit...

On the Effectiveness of Instruction-Tuning Local LLMs for Identifying Software Vulnerabilities

Large Language Models LLMs show significant promise in automating software vulnerability analysis, a critical task given the impact of security failure of modern software systems. However, current approaches in using LLMs to automate vulnerability analysis mostly rely on using online API-based LL...

The Democratization of Phishing: Popularity of PhaaS platforms on the rise

The Democratization of Phishing: Popularity of PhaaS Platforms on the Rise By Ryan Slaney · June 30, 2025 The phishing industry is being profoundly reshaped by the surge of Phishing-as-a-Service PhaaS platforms. These accessible, often Artificial Intelligence AI-powered, offerings are democratizi...

The Ramifications of Ukraine’s Drone Attack

You can read the details of Operation Spiderweb elsewhere. What interests me are the implications for future warfare: If the Ukrainians could sneak drones so close to major air bases in a police state such as Russia, what is to prevent the Chinese from doing the same with U.S. air bases? Or the...

Advantages of a Cloud VPS Server

By Owais Sultan A Cloud VPS Virtual Private Server is a virtualized instance of a physical server hosted in the cloud, offering scalable computing resources and the ability to run applications and services independently, providing flexibility and cost-effectiveness. This is a post from HackRead.c...

Careful Workload Placement Can Create Cloud Cost Savings

Optimizing the cost-effectiveness of cloud infrastructure requires the careful placement of workloads in the environments best suited to their execution...

CVE-2021-3714

A flaw was found in the Linux kernels memory deduplication mechanism. Previous work has shown that memory deduplication can be attacked via a local exploitation mechanism. The same technique can be used if an attacker can upload page sized files and detect the change in access time from a network...

The Advantages and Risks of Serverless Computing

Organizations are increasingly embracing serverless computing for its convenience and cost-effectiveness. But many IT teams are blindly embracing this innovation in cloud technology without consulting their security peers. As a result, we can expect to see a growing number of cyber-attacks in thi...

Acunetix Vulnerability Scanner Version For Linux

Acunetix, the pioneer in automated web application security software, has announced the release of Acunetix for Linux. Known to be reliable, cost-effective and secure, Linux is the server operating system of choice for many large organizations including Facebook, Twitter, and Google. Acunetix is...