On Microsoft’s Lousy Cloud Security ProPublica has a scoop : In late 2024, the federal government’s cybersecurity evaluators rendered a troubling verdict on one of Microsoft’s biggest cloud computing …
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We added a new chapter to our Testing Handbook: a comprehensive security checklist for C and C++ code . We’ve identified a broad range of common bug classes, known footguns, and API gotchas across C …
An apparent hack-for-hire campaign likely orchestrated by a threat actor with suspected ties to the Indian government targeted journalists, activists, and government officials across the Middle East …
As AI tools become more accessible, employees are adopting them without formal approval from IT and security teams. While these tools may boost productivity, automate tasks, or fill gaps in existing …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 09, 2026 Vulnerability / Threat Intelligence Threat actors have been exploiting a previously unknown zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Reader using maliciously crafted PDF …
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Daily newsletter is Telegraph’s ‘biggest source of subscribers’ one year after launch
Picture: The Telegraph Flagship Telegraph newsletter From the Editor has become its “biggest source” of new paying subscribers one year after launch. From the Editor promises news, comment, analysis …
Daily Beast subscription sign-up page The Daily Beast saw double-digit percentage growth in subscribers in 2025 after starting to treat subscriptions as a “core growth engine”. Paying subscribers to …
In a previous diary [1], we looked to see how numbers were used within passwords submitted to honeypots. One of the items of interest was how dates, and more specifically years, were represented …
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ISC Stormcast For Thursday, April 9th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9886, (Thu, Apr 9th)
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, April 9th, 2026 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9886
You can use reinforcement Fine-Tuning (RFT) in Amazon Bedrock to customize Amazon Nova and supported open source models by defining what “good” looks like—no large labeled datasets required. By …
In healthcare and life sciences, AI agents help organizations process clinical data, submit regulatory filings, automate medical coding, and accelerate drug development and commercialization. However, …
Today, we’re sharing how Amazon Bedrock makes it straightforward to customize Amazon Nova models for your specific business needs. As customers scale their AI deployments, they need models that …
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Building intelligent audio search with Amazon Nova Embeddings: A deep dive into semantic audio understanding
If you’re looking to enhance your content understanding and search capabilities, audio embeddings offer a powerful solution. In this post, you’ll learn how to use Amazon Nova Multimodal Embeddings to …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 08, 2026 Cryptomining / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new variant ofmalware called Chaos that’scapable of hitting misconfigured cloud …
This is the seventh update to the TeamPCP supply chain campaign threat intelligence report, “When the Security Scanner Became the Weapon” (v3.0, March 25, 2026). Update 006 covered …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 08, 2026 IoT Security / Network Security Cybersecurity researchers have lifted the curtain on a stealthy botnet that’s designed for distributed denial-of-service …
One question that often comes up when I talk about honeypots: Are attackers able to figure out if they are connected to a honeypot? The answer is pretty simple: Yes! Most “medium …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 08, 2026 Vulnerability / Cloud Security The Russian threat actor known as APT28 (aka Forest Blizzard and Pawn Storm) has been linked to a fresh spear-phishing campaign …
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Shrinking the IAM Attack Surface through Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms (IVIP)
The Fragmented State of Modern Enterprise Identity Enterprise IAM is approaching a breaking point. As organizations scale, identity becomes increasingly fragmented across thousands of applications, …
Python Supply-Chain Compromise This is news : A malicious supply chain compromise has been identified in the Python Package Index package litellm version 1.82.8. The published wheel contains a …
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Wall Street Journal video team recentres around ‘journalism that’s worth paying for’
Maral Usefi, Wall Street Journal head of video. Picture: News Corp The Wall Street Journal has revamped its video strategy around the central aim of making “ video journalism that’s worth paying …
The North Korea-linked persistent campaign known as Contagious Interview has spread its tentacles by publishing malicious packages targeting the Go, Rust, and PHP ecosystems. “The threat …
** Ravie Lakshmanan ** Apr 08, 2026 Artificial Intelligence / Secure Coding Artificial Intelligence (AI) company Anthropic announced a new cybersecurity initiative called Project Glasswing that will …
Times deputy head of digital Anna Sbuttoni, Times homepage on 7 April 2026, and Times story ‘The day coal died’ The Times says a strategy of publishing “fewer, better stories” has led to three …
Louis Dreyfus, CEO of Le Monde. Picture: Delporte Publishers should be signing AI licensing deals to ensure “strong competition” in journalism, according to Le Monde chief executive Louis Dreyfus. …