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Open-source file sync tool rsync 3.5.2 fixes a CPU exhaustion flaw

۱۴۰۵/۰۸/۱۳ · ۱ ساعت پیش آسیب‌پذیری Help Net Security

The rsync project released version 3.5.2, and it closes a flaw that let a connecting client tie up a server’s CPU with checksum math that leads nowhere. The new version also lets you push a transfer to the back of the queue for CPU and disk, so a big sync stops elbowing everything else on the machine. rsync is an open-source utility that copies files locally and across a network, and it is widely…

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Secure your containers without breaking what works

۱۴۰۵/۰۸/۱۳ · ۳ ساعت پیش آسیب‌پذیری Help Net Security

Container security has a familiar problem. Teams identify vulnerabilities, but turning those findings into lower risk is much harder. A standard container image may include operating-system packages, development tools, debugging utilities and libraries that an application never uses. Each unnecessary component can expand the attack surface and add vulnerabilities to investigate, patch or explain…

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Novee puts forgotten internet-facing assets through penetration testing

۱۴۰۵/۰۸/۱۲ · ۱۹ ساعت پیش آسیب‌پذیری Help Net Security

Novee’s External Surface Testing is a new capability in its AI penetration testing platform that helps security teams discover internet-facing assets and validate exploitable vulnerabilities. It tests newly disclosed CVEs and findings imported from third-party external attack surface management (EASM) tools. “Attackers don’t limit themselves to the applications you’re already testing. They look…

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AIs Hacking the Law

۱۴۰۵/۰۸/۱۲ · ۲۱ ساعت پیش آسیب‌پذیری Schneier on Security

In both a 2021 essay and my 2022 book, A Hacker’s Mind , I talk about AIs finding vulnerabilities and exploits—hacking—the legal system. Here’s some demonstrations of this from Germany: Legal systems encode the foundations of social order in natural language. Similar to computer systems, the written law can contain vulnerabilities that invite exploitation.1 Courts absorb most exploits through…