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🚧 Programmers Using AI Create Way More Glaring Security Issues, Data Shows
｢ The tradeoff has, however, been severe: privilege escalation, or code that allows an attacker to get higher access to a system than they should, increased by a staggering 322 percent. Architectural design problems, meanwhile, were up 153 percent ｣
If government staff pays themselves well and keeps citizens poor and exploited, revolts will happen.
History is not nice to exploiters.
There's a problem with extensions, packages, crates, libraries, modules, gists, blooms, and other things that can be added to a computer or computer program: lack of vetting. Is it safe to use or not?
Ideally, every user would vet the source code prior to deployment. But: not many users can, and those who can may not have the time.
Malicious actors bank on that, as reported here, about #VSCode:
https://www.reversinglabs.com/blog/malware-vs-code-extension-names
How to solve?
VS Code Extensions Used for Malware Delivery Campaign
A recently uncovered vulnerability in the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) Marketplace allowed malicious actors to hijack discontinued extension names and distribute malware to unsuspecting developers.
Pulse ID: 68b1d0b1d43ed29019312747
Pulse Link: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/68b1d0b1d43ed29019312747
Pulse Author: cryptocti
Created: 2025-08-29 16:09:21
Be advised, this data is unverified and should be considered preliminary. Always do further verification.
#CyberSecurity #InfoSec #Malware #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Vulnerability #bot #developers #cryptocti
I just put together a Qubes OS guide on setting up an HTTP(S) proxy with Squid, so you can actually filter which URLs a qube is allowed to access. (even if you set it offline)
Because you can't just put a domain name into the firewall and expect it to work more than a few minutes nowadays.
https://forum.qubes-os.org/t/url-filtering-https-proxy/35846/1
Introduction This guide is meant to users who want to allow a qube to reach some websites but not the all Internet, but facing the issue that using the firewall does not work well if DNS names on which the associated IPs often change. ⚠ This guide is for advanced users who understand what a HTTP(s) proxy is, and how to type commands or edit files in a terminal. The setup will create a “sys-proxy-out” qube that will define a list of allowed domains, and use qvm-connect-tcp to allow clie...
Video game realism: does the running character tire?
Horizon: no.
Call of Duty: no.
DotHackSign: no.
Roblox: no.
Minecraft: yes.
Genshin Impact: yes.
Fortnite: yes.
Which do you feel gives a better game play?
Out-of-control wildfire in Nova Scotia has destroyed homes, forced 1000+ to evacuate and 'could burn for another month'
#Canada #CDNPoli #NoPipelines #CliamteCrisis #GlobalBoiling #NovaScotia #Wildfires
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