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Eight eMudhra certificate keys were so weak that one was the number 4

Anyone could calculate the private keys of eight eMudhra intermediate certificates from the certificates themselves. eMudhra is a certificate authority based in India. Anyone holding the keys could issue a certificate for any website that browsers and apps would accept. A researcher credited only as Wayne reported the problem to the browser root programs on […]

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EU cybersecurity team says unpatched PHP sites may need to go offline

Organisations that cannot quickly patch two critical flaws in PHP should consider taking their websites offline, the EU’s cybersecurity response team has warned. PHP powers a large share of the web. The PHP project will release fixes at 14:00 UTC on Wednesday, October 21. CERT-EU, which protects the EU’s institutions and bodies, issued the advice […]

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Meta pauses Muse sharing after researchers find AI chats on the web

Meta says it paused a Muse feature that lets you share conversations with the AI assistant after researchers found the URLs publicly available on the web, as reported by Ars Technica. In a report published this week, researchers at the security firm Claroc say they found more than 6,800 Muse links through public DNS records. […]

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Chrome will now show a warning before you visit ‘suspicious’ sites

Google is launching a new browser safety feature for Chrome that aims to keep you better informed about how malicious a website might be before you open it. The new suspicious site warnings, available when Chrome’s Enhanced Protection is on, build on a similar two-stage system introduced for Chrome file downloads in 2024, which provides […]

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Blackwall quadruples its valuation to $2.2bn as bots take over the web

“Blackwall has built something rare: a security company that grows with the internet itself,” said Warda Shaheen, a general partner at AVP. “It is already the layer in front of millions of websites, and as more of the web’s traffic comes from agents, the company in that position becomes indispensable.” AVP has led a $100 […]

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Asymptote Labs raises $5.5M to track and control what AI agents do

New York startup Asymptote Labs has raised a $5.5M seed round led by Tower Research Ventures. It makes Beacon, a free open-source tool that records what AI agents do, and sells a paid platform that can block risky agent actions. The money will go on engineering, hiring and sales. Asymptote Labs, a New York startup […]

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US Army picks a bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, its plan for autonomous AI agents

Army Cyber Command has picked one company’s bid for ECHOTRIBBLE, a programme for AI agents that hunt down targets in computer networks. The command’s technology centre and the Cyber Fusion Innovation Center (CFIC) made the choice on 8 October, according to CFIC’s website. A statement of work and contract will follow, it says. CFIC does […]

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Revolut outage leaves customers unable to use app or cards

Revolut customers across Europe were unable to open the fintech’s app or pay with their cards on Tuesday morning, after a service disruption hit several of its features. Outage tracker Downdetector logged more than 1,500 reports at that point, and users in the UK, France, Romania and Spain said they could not move money, while […]

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