Security researchers have recently uncovered security issues known as Meltdown and Spectre.
Meltdown, Spectre, and the Costs of Unchecked Innovation
Spectre fixes forced browsers to break the compatibility covenant of the web. Other unchecked technologies could cause even deeper damage.
Spectre/Meltdown Pits Transparency Against Liability: Which is More Important to You? « bunnie's blog
There is a lot of righteous anger directed toward Intel over CPU bugs that were revealed by Spectre/Meltdown. I agree that things could have been handled better, particularly with regards to transparency and the sharing of information among the relevant user communities that could have worked together to deploy effective patches in a timely fashion. People also aren’t wrong that consumer protection laws obligate manufacturers to honor warranties, particularly when a product is not fit for use as represented, if it contains defective material or workmanship, or fails to meet regulatory compliance.
Chromium Docs - Post-Spectre Threat Model Re-Think
Contributors: awhalley, creis, dcheng, jschuh, jyasskin, lukasza, mkwst, nasko, palmer, tsepez. Patches and corrections welcome!
Hackers Used New Weapons to Disrupt Major Websites Across U.S. (Published 2016)
Users of Twitter, Netflix and other sites reported failures after a company managing crucial parts of the internet infrastructure said it was under attack.
Behind the Scenes Hardening Firefox with Claude Mythos Preview – Mozilla Hacks - the Web developer blog
New details about what we found, and how agentic harnesses are now able to reproduce real bugs and dismiss false positives.
Resilience, Risk, and Transformation
AI-related market corrections, sharp rises in sovereign bond yields, and cyber threats could trigger market turmoil, while financial vulnerabilities could amplify these risks into systemic events. The growing footprint of hedge funds could further exacerbate adverse market dynamics during periods of stress.
Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components
Discuss @tom.sherman.is's post on Frontpage.
Path to Astra: critical capabilities and frontier safeguards
Astra is the first OpenAI model to meet the Critical cybersecurity capability threshold under the Preparedness Framework, with stronger safeguards for release.
About Lockdown Mode - Apple Support
Lockdown Mode helps protect devices against extremely rare and highly sophisticated cyber attacks.
Apple threat notifications and spyware: what everyone should know - Access Now
Since 2001, Apple has been warning its users when they may have been targeted by spyware, using email, iMessage, and banners in their accounts. But in
Someone Is Learning How to Take Down the Internet
Over the past year or two, someone has been probing the defenses of the companies that run critical pieces of the Internet. These probes take the form of precisely
A new Anthropic model found security problems ‘in every major operating system and web browser’
Nvidia, Google, Apple, Microsoft, and others will use Claude Mythos Preview to spot vulnerabilities in their systems.
Critical Security Vulnerability in React Server Components – React
The library for web and native user interfaces
The Cyber Resilience Act: A Five Alarm Fire
On October 21, 2016, CNN’s website was knocked offline. So was the BBC and Guardian’s. Amazon, Etsy and Shopify too, along with Quora, Reddit, and Twitter – among others. Huge swaths of the internet were taken down by a series of attacks on the DNS provider Dyn. These Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks were
