Jeff Hall - PCIGuru :verified:
jbhall56@infosec.exchange
<p>Been in information security, privacy, computers, etc. since, well, since almost they have been around (i.e., a very, very long time). Based in Minneapolis, Minnesota or there about. Oh, and I write the PCI Guru blog - pciguru.blog</p>
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Cloudflare has fixed a vulnerability in Containers and Sandboxes that allowed customers with a Workers Paid account to recover residual data from other customers’ containers on the same physical host. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/cloudflare-fixes-containers-cross-tenant-flaw-exposing-customer-data/
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Copland was intended to replace Apple's System 7 with a PowerPC-native operating system built around a microkernel, protected memory, and preemptive multitasking for system services. https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/09/27/apple-buried-copland-30-years-ago-now-the-failed-os-boots-in-a-browser/5299201
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Google’s warning comes four months after the hacking group was seen exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in PeopleSoft, tracked as CVE-2026-35273, to gain remote code execution without authentication. https://www.securityweek.com/google-warns-of-shinyhunters-fresh-oracle-peoplesoft-campaign/
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Was RSA 896 broken? It could be. https://saweis.net/posts/rsa-896.html
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Kids can learn why BGP matters in a semester, but that won’t leave them ready to implement it. https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/09/23/in-the-age-of-ai-teaching-networking-principles-remains-more-important-than-learning-protocols/5298478
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Palo Alto Networks is rolling out a new subscription service today that allows customers to use a mix of gated frontier models and open-weight models to find security flaws on their systems and recommend fixes. https://www.axios.com/2026/09/22/palo-alto-networks-cyber-defense-ai-agents?utm_term=twsocialshare
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@jack_daniel@mastodon.social Yeah ... but ... they be working pretty hard at it! 😉😕🤦♂️😞
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UK cloud provider Civo plans to build 40 edge datacenters to bring sovereign AI services closer to customers, with the first due to open in Hertfordshire by March 2027. https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/09/22/civo-plots-40-edge-datacenters-to-power-britains-sovereign-ai/5298141
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On Monday, Google unveiled five new Googlebooks in collaboration with Dell, HP, Lenovo, Acer, and Asus. https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/09/21/google-smacks-forehead-realizes-899-thin-and-lights-were-what-it-was-missing/5297947
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The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-7273 (CVSS score: 8.8), is a stack-based buffer overflow vulnerability that could result in arbitrary operating system (OS) command execution. https://thehackernews.com/2026/09/zyxel-and-veeam-flaws-under-active.html
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The emergence of Mythos challenged those assumptions, forcing the Trump administration to reimagine AI models not only as trophies of Silicon Valley innovation but also as loaded weapons that could be aimed at critical parts of the American economy. https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2026/09/20/anthropic-white-house-ai-01085212
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At 763 billion parameters, the point release is more than 2.5x the size of the model it replaces. https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/09/11/deepseeks-new-model-sets-a-template-for-powerful-llms-that-run-lean/5295715
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Google has the AI platform. Accenture has the enterprise engineers. Their new Gemini alliance brings both into the same enterprise projects. https://www.eweek.com/news/google-accenture-gemini-enterprise-engineers/
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Concentrations of dangerous pollutants from rocket launches and satellite reentries in Earth's upper atmosphere might reach treacherous tipping points if constellations of hundreds of thousands of orbiting data centers get deployed in the next decade. https://www.space.com/space-exploration/launches-spacecraft/spacex-wants-to-put-1-million-ai-satellites-in-orbit-what-would-that-do-to-earths-climate
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Starlink and 5G home internet are helping close the digital divide, but they're far from perfect. Glue them together, and you can get awfully close. https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/08/09/ive-gone-from-writing-about-sd-wan-to-depending-on-it/5285130
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"Three laws safe!" https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/asimov-was-right-about-rules-for-robots-says-ex-us-cyber-director/5284397
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The regulator’s announcement of its review says it’s needed “to ensure the safe and stable operation of critical information infrastructure, prevent cybersecurity risks and vulnerabilities, and safeguard national security.” https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/07/china-launches-mysterious-probe-into-security-of-palo-alto-networks-products/5284453
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For all of the "kids" at Security Summer Camp this week. https://www.govinfosecurity.com/breach-roundup-water-utilities-in-12-us-states-hit-a-32451
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The chief executive of T-Mobile said the threat posed to mobile operators from satellite companies such as Elon Musk’s Starlink has been exaggerated and that he struggled to see which consumer problems they would solve by entering the market. https://giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/actions/redeem/e8bd945e-2830-43c6-ba32-822c3cb7ec25
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Security flaws in agent infrastructure from Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google, and Vercel let untrusted or forged instructions reach an agent's tools with no check that a model turn had authorized them. https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/aws-google-and-vercel-patch-agent-flaws.html
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Check Point researchers tried to break the frameworks enterprises use to build AI apps. Now they're telling Black Hat attendees what they found. https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/08/05/prompt-injection-isnt-the-bug-ai-agent-frameworks-are/5283585
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Revenue is soaring, yet hyperscalers say they still cannot build capacity fast enough. https://www.theregister.com/off-prem/2026/08/04/cloud-giants-pour-nearly-600b-into-capex-as-ai-demand-surges/5282679
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Attackers broke into an organization's Oracle database through a SQL injection flaw in a public-facing web application, then installed a post-exploitation toolkit without writing an executable to disk. https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/attackers-compile-khunt-inside-oracle.html
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Most enterprise teams run both Microsoft 365 and Salesforce simultaneously — and then waste effort bridging the gap manually. The fix isn't switching tools. It's connecting them. https://www.informationweek.com/software-services/the-real-cost-of-running-microsoft-365-and-salesforce-in-silos
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The INC Ransomware operation has emerged as the "dominant threat actor" exploiting the recently disclosed security flaws in SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 1000 series VPN appliances. https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/inc-ransomware-emerges-as-dominant.html
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Please ... do NOT do this ... https://pciguru.wordpress.com/2026/08/04/what-not-to-do-service-provider-responsibility-matrix/
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AI companies are expected to review a draft Tuesday at a meeting with the Office of the National Cyber Director, according to five people familiar with the planning who were granted anonymity to discuss internal deliberations. https://www.politico.com/news/2026/08/03/white-house-finalizes-voluntary-ai-oversight-framework-01022437
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There are many algorithms for which it has been mathematically proven that a quantum computer can generate results that would take a classical computer an unreasonable amount of time to generate. https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/if-a-quantum-computer-outperforms-normal-ones-can-you-tell-if-its-right/
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The technology, called high-bandwidth flash (HBF), is being developed by Sandisk and SK Hynix and aims to provide SSD-like capacities at HBM-like speeds. https://www.theregister.com/storage/2026/07/30/gpus-could-explode-to-multiple-tb-with-new-storage-inspired-memory-tech/5281363