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You gave your AI agent access, but who is giving it orders?

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AI agents can be manipulated through malicious emails, websites, and plugins into executing commands, stealing data, or deleting files using their legitimate permissions. Gen Digital explains how its Agent Trust Hub helps protect agents through skill verification, secure connectivity, and runtime controls that intercept dangerous act [...]

Disgraced eMudhra drops out of TLS business after using cert private key of 4

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eMudhra, the certificate authority that issued eight intermediate TLS credentials so weak that anyone could mint certificates for any website or mail server—one had a private encryption key of just 4—said it’s getting out of the business. V. Srinivasan, chairman of India-based eMudhra Limited, cited increasing …

333 Tor exit nodes hijacked to intercept SSH traffic and retrieve plaintext email

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Unknown hackers hijacked more than 300 Tor exit nodes and reconfigured them to favor unencrypted email traffic and redirect SSH connections through servers they controlled, a researcher reported Tuesday. The hijacking began in late August, when, according to Tor volunteers, the attacker used a valid password that had been …

PHP warns it plans to release 2 emergency patches imminently

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Website admins, brace yourselves. Fixes for what are believed to be uncommonly severe vulnerabilities are scheduled to drop in a little more than 12 hours for PHP, a programming language that powers websites and Web applications everywhere. PHP maintainers said Monday that they planned to release patches for two …

The Internet goes on high alert after discovery of 8 compromised TLS certs

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Security personnel around the world are on high alert Tuesday following the discovery of eight TLS certificates with private keys so weak they could allow anyone to mint trusted browser and app credentials for any site on the Internet. As of late morning Tuesday, browser makers and some major …

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