This Week in Security: The X DDoS, The ESP32 Basementdoor, and the camelCase RCE

We would be remiss if we didn’t address the X Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack that’s been happening this week. It seems like everyone is is trying to make …read more Continue reading This Week in Security: The X DDoS, The ESP32 Basementdoor, and the camelCase RCE

X suffered a DDoS attack. Its CEO and security researchers can’t agree on who did it.

X’s wave of outages resembled a DDoS attack and Dark Storm Team, a prolific threat group specializing in such attacks, claimed responsibility.

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Strategic decisions around web hosting on dedicated vs shared server (non-tech question)

I am in negotiations with my hosting provider (single individual) that uses VPS to host all of my sites on what is a dedicated environment.
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DeepSeek Security: System Prompt Jailbreak, Details Emerge on Cyberattacks

Researchers found a jailbreak method that exposed DeepSeek’s system prompt, while others have analyzed the DDoS attacks aimed at the new gen-AI.
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DeepSeek Blames Disruption on Cyberattack as Vulnerabilities Emerge

China’s DeepSeek blamed sign-up disruptions on a cyberattack as researchers started finding vulnerabilities in the R1 AI model. 
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‘Severe’ bug in ChatGPT’s API could be used to DDoS websites

The vulnerability, described by a researcher as “bad programming,” allows an attacker to send unlimited connection requests through ChatGPT’s API.

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