Public AI as an Alternative to Corporate AI

This mini-essay was my contribution to a round table on Power and Governance in the Age of AI. Its nothing I havent said here before, but for anyone who hasnt read my longer essays on the topic, its a shorter introduction. The increasingly centralized control of AI is an ominous sign. When tech...

Essays from the Second IWORD

The Ash Center has posted a series of twelve essays stemming from the Second Interdisciplinary Workshop on Reimagining Democracy IWORD 2023. Aviv Ovadya, Democracy as Approximation: A Primer for “AI for Democracy” Innovators Kathryn Peters, Permission and Participation Claudia Chwalisz, Moving...

BIT-COSIGN-2022-36056 Vulnerabilities with blob verification in sigstore cosign

Cosign is a project under the sigstore organization which aims to make signatures invisible infrastructure. In versions prior to 1.12.0 a number of vulnerabilities have been found in cosign verify-blob, where Cosign would successfully verify an artifact when verification should have failed. First...

GHSA-8R3F-844C-MC37 vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities for packages: flux-notification-controller, ctop, k3s, terraform-docs, hubble-ui, crossplane-provider-aws-route53, kine, atlantis, flux-source-controller, zot, amass, gh, temporal, crossplane-provider-aws-kms, spicedb, slsa-verifier, crossplane-provider-azure-managedidentity,...

Fedora: Security Advisory for gifsicle (FEDORA-2024-4672c1ff2d)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2024 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss

More than a decade ago, the concept of the 'blameless' postmortem changed how tech companies recognize failures at scale. John Allspaw, who coined the term during his tenure at Etsy, argued postmortems were all about controlling our natural reaction to an incident, which is to point fingers: "One...

[SECURITY] Fedora 38 Update: gifsicle-1.95-1.fc38

Gifsicle is a command-line tool for creating, editing, and getting information about GIF images and animations. Some more gifsicle features: Batch mode for changing GIFs in place. Prints detailed information about GIFs, including comments. Control over interlacing, comments, looping,...

A Comprehensive Assessment of the General Personal Data Protection Law (LGPD)

Most nations need to protect sensitive data for any number of reasons. Assuring legal compliance, protecting national security, preventing abuse and prejudice, improving global competitiveness, and upholding ethical standards are all vital requirements. Data privacy enhances the safety, security,...

Siemens Location Intelligence Uses Hard-Coded Credentials Vulnerability

Location Intelligence is a web-based application that creates transparency in production and logistics processes based on location data, thus uncovering optimization potential. Siemens Location Intelligence suffers from a Use Hardcoded Credentials vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacke...

GHSA-7496-FGV9-XW82 Unencrypted ingress/health traffic when using Wireguard transparent encryption

Impact For Cilium users who are using CRDs to store Cilium state the default configuration and Wireguard transparent encryption, responses from pods to the Ingress and health endpoints are not encrypted. Traffic from the Ingress and health endpoints to pods is not affected by this issue. The heal...

Digital Experience Monitoring | What Is DEM?

Introduction to Digital Experience Monitoring: Illuminating the Basics In an era governed by technology, the satisfaction of an end-user is of utmost importance. It has the power to stimulate or to halt business growth, and frequently determines if a client continues or discontinues their...

Facebook’s Extensive Surveillance Network

Consumer Reports is reporting that Facebook has built a massive surveillance network: Using a panel of 709 volunteers who shared archives of their Facebook data, Consumer Reports found that a total of 186,892 companies sent data about them to the social network. On average, each participant in th...

ChatGPT accused of breaking data protection rules

Italys Data Protection Authority GPDP has uncovered data privacy violations related to collecting personal data and age protections after an inquiry into OpenAI’s ChatGPT. OpenAI has 30 days to respond with a defense. ChatGPT is an artificial intelligence AI chatbot that can engage in conversatio...

The vulnerability of the TCC (Transparency, Consent, and Control) mechanism in operating systems such as Mac OS, tvOS, watchOS, iOS, and iPadOS allows a perpetrator to circumvent security restrictions and gain unauthorized access to protected information.

The vulnerability of the TCC Transparency, Consent, and Control mechanism in operating systems such as Mac OS, tvOS, watchOS, iOS, and iPadOS is related to insecure temporary files. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to bypass security restrictions and gain unauthorized access to...

Microsoft .NET Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2024-02713)

Microsoft .NET is a software framework dedicated to agile software development, rapid application development, platform-agnosticism, and web transparency. A denial of service vulnerability exists in Microsoft .NET, which can be exploited by attackers to cause a denial of service...

Insecure and Inflexible Forwarder Approval Mechanism (Full Access Grant)

Lines of code Vulnerability details Impact The current implementation of the onlyApprovedForwarder modifier in the Ocean smart contract has several negative impacts: 1. Security Risk: Users are exposed to a significant security risk if their forwarder is compromised. An attacker can exploit full...

CISA Requests Comment on Draft Secure Software Development Attestation Form

CISA has opened a 30-day Federal Register notice to receive public comment on the draft Secure Software Development Attestation Form. CISA developed this form in coordination with the Office of Management and Budget. With the Secure Software Development Attestation Form, federal departments and...

GO-2022-0326 Improper certificate validation in github.com/sigstore/cosign

Cosign can be manipulated to claim that an entry for a signature in the OCI registry exists in the Rekor transparency log even if it does not. This requires the attacker to have pull and push permissions for the signature in OCI. This can happen with both standard signing with a keypair and...

Implementing Zero Trust: 5 Key Considerations

When implementing a Zero Trust strategy and selecting a solution to safeguard your company against cyber risk, there are many factors to consider. Five key areas include Visibility and Analytics, Automation and Orchestration, Central Management, Analyst Experience, and Pricing Flexibility and...

CISA, NSA, FBI, and International Partners Release Updated Secure by Design Guidance

Today, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, National Security Agency NSA, and Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI released an update to Shifting the Balance of Cybersecurity Risk: Principles and Approaches for Security-by- Design and -Default with the following...