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A new Mirai-derived botnet called Tengu can use a compromised Linux device's hardware watchdog to trigger a reboot when defenders kill its main process. If that happens, Tengu's other persistence mechanisms get another chance to relaunch it. Nozomi Networks Labs observed the dropper reaching its honeypots through Telnet credential brute force. Tengu supports 25 distributed denial-of-service (Swati Khandelwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

The volume of Linux security advisories remains high across enterprise distributions, but the more difficult task is determining which updates carry the broadest operational risk. Looking across this week's advisory set, one pattern stood out more than any other.

Cybersecurity researchers have sounded an alert after finding more than 36,000 Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) management interfaces exposing Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) protocol to the public internet. Of the 36,872 internet-exposed server-management interfaces running IPMI, 24,650 have been found to disclose password-derived authentication hashes before login due toRavie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

A compromised SSO login can provide attackers with access to multiple enterprise applications and services. Specops Software explains how stronger passwords, phishing-resistant MFA, and identity hardening help secure modern SSO environments and the applications they protect. [...]

Operating entirely offline, Kind Local Pro gives individuals local data sovereignty without sacrificing AI performance

Synsira Software is addressing the biggest concern with AI: privacy. Today, the company introduced Kind Local Pro, an AI platform that operates independently of corporate cloud-based LLM models and is available to download onto desktops and laptops. Designed for people and organizations wanting the benefits of AI without sending their data, analysis and queries to external sources, the platform allows users to take control of their information.

Kind Local Pro builds on Synsira’s flagship Kind platform, giving professionals, researchers, communicators, legal teams, educators and organizations a more private way to search and understand their own files using AI. Built to operate locally on a user’s desktop or laptop, Kind Local Pro lets users create collections and ask questions across their materials, with answers generated only from their data and not the open web.

“People want AI to be useful, but they also want to know where their data is going,” said Dr. Jonathan Schaeffer, founder of Synsira Software and creator of Kind. “That is not a small concern. For many people and businesses, it is the whole issue. Kind Local Pro was built for users who want AI on their own terms: private, local and grounded in their own information.”

With Kind Local Pro, users add documents, presentations, research papers, notes, videos, images, email inboxes, audio and other supported files into collections. Once the content is indexed, summarized, tagged and analyzed by Kind AI, they can ask natural-language questions or do fuzzy searching and receive answers with precise citations into the information in those files. If the user’s data does not contain enough information to answer a question, Kind Local Pro is designed to say so rather than invent a response.

The platform is purpose-built for data-sensitive environments:

• Legal and Compliance: Lawyers can analyze internal memoranda and client files with all analysis private and staying local to their machine
• Intellectual Property: Agency professionals, influencers, creators and executives can organize proprietary brand assets, manuscripts and corporate strategies with zero risk of their data being used to train public models.
• Academic Research: Scientists and researchers can search years of papers, drafts and video lecture materials while keeping unpublished work on their own machine.

The product reflects Synsira’s broader view that AI adoption depends on trust, transparency and practical value. Many people remain cautious about AI because of concerns about errors or bias in internet answers, privacy, data training, security and the environmental demands of large-scale cloud computing. Kind Local Pro addresses those concerns by moving the AI experience closer to the user and keeping private data under local control.

“Not every AI task needs to be sent to a massive data center,” said Schaeffer. “Sometimes the smartest place for AI to work is right where the information already lives: on your own computer. Bigger is not always better. Private, practical and accurate is better.”

Kind Local Pro allows for 10,000 files to be uploaded, up to 500 at a time. It is now available for an initial subscription cost of $79 at Kind.Synsira.com. Local Kind Free allows up to 50 files to be uploaded. Both versions are 1.9GB installed plus 6GBs of AI models installed.

A media kit with logos, headshots and screenshots of Kind Local Pro is available here.

About Kind by Synsira

Synsira builds ethical, user-friendly Al products from rigorously evaluated and curated Al models for folks who demand privacy and environmental responsibility in Al. Synsira’s flagship product, Kind, available now at synsira.com, is a desktop Al application that securely and privately helps users unlock the knowledge contained in their own curated data. By putting guardrails on the Al commercial and open-source models and implementing strict data controls, Kind Al delivers accurate, reliable results with surgical precision across all personal files, photos, video and audio.

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CAF Bank, which serves 14,000 charities, has suspended online banking as it fixes a vulnerability in how third-party software connects to its portal. The outage has left some organizations struggling to run payroll after being cut from their accounts. In a message to customers, seen by The Register, the Charities Aid Foundation-owned bank confirm online services had been unavailable since July 24 and will remain so until further notice. The bank's communications say the decision resulted from reports of suspicious activity on some customer accounts. It said the bank detected the problem early on and notified customers of any attempted fraud. Following an investigation, CAF Bank identified a previously undetected vulnerability in the connection between third-party software and the online banking portal. It is working with its technology partner on a fix. The bank assured customers that its core banking services were not affected and that money held in their accounts was safe. However, it was making changes to the online service. In a statement, CEO Alison Taylor said: "We have informed CAF Bank customers that the online banking service will be unavailable until further notice. I am very sorry for the disruption and understand the frustration this can cause for our customers. "We are working with external experts to fix an issue we identified with third-party software related to our online banking portal. The core bank is not affected. We are acutely aware of the impact this has on our customers and want this to be fixed as soon as possible, but we cannot restore access to the online service until we are assured the issue is safely resolved. "We are still able to support on the phone, and we are prioritizing time-sensitive payments such as payroll." She declined to comment on whether the bank will compensate customers. Last year, CAF Bank came under fire from customers who were unable to log in or make transactions when a new banking platform was introduced. The bank later apologized to customers experiencing difficulties with the service. At the time, a CAF Bank spokesperson said it was focused on supporting its customers through the transition and helping them with the new online banking service. "The vast majority of our customers are online, with thousands of payments being made and received every day. We are sorry for the disruption and waits on calls that some of our customers have experienced following the launch." The bank has not disclosed how much it has spent on the platform. It held £1.45 billion ($1.93 billion) in customer deposits at the end of its 2024/25 financial year. ®

An attacker may no longer need to erase Linux logs to hide an intrusion. They may only need the AI reading them to believe a different story.

Umělá inteligence nahradí fázové řízení plynulou analýzou dopravy v reálném čase • Projekt v americkém Pittsburghu potvrdil zkrácení čekací doby na křižovatkách • Propojená dopravní infrastruktura se stává potenciálním cílem kybernetických útoků

JFrog has confirmed that OpenAI models exploited a zero-day in self-hosted Artifactory while trying to reach the open internet from a sealed evaluation environment. Artifactory is JFrog's software repository manager. OpenAI says the models then escalated privileges and moved laterally until they reached an internet-connected node. JFrog says it has since developed and released fixes for cloud Swati Khandelwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

OpenWrt has shipped version 24.10.8 to close a critical DHCPv6 stack overflow and a wider set of remotely triggerable flaws in network services enabled by default. The critical issue, tracked as CVE-2026-53921 and rated 9.8 on CVSS 3.1 in OpenWrt's GitHub advisory, lets an unauthenticated attacker able to reach the DHCPv6 server overwrite a stack buffer in odhcpd through a crafted DHCPv6 Swati Khandelwalhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

America wants its allies to come together and help it lead the way in defining 6G communications standards, with security and resilience seen as key goals for next-generation networks. The latest effort to corral international work on 6G comes from the US National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), which says it is pursuing the objectives of a December 2025 memo from President Trump on "Winning the 6G Race." That memo didn't identify who America is racing against, but it is a fair bet that it is China, which gained a lead during the development of 5G technology. Huawei in particular is understood to hold more declared 5G standard-essential patent families than any other company. The NTIA says it is launching this initiative alongside more than 20 governments, including several European nations like the UK and the Nordic countries, Japan, South Korea, and Australia. The Nordics are significant as they are home to telecoms equipment suppliers Nokia and Ericsson. These governments have all pledged to strengthen cooperation on 6G over the next 12 months and beyond in support of greater security, interoperability, and resilience for next-generation networks, the NTIA claims. "The Call to Action for 6G Leadership and Security reflects an unprecedented level of international coordination on the future of communications technology," stated NTIA administrator Arielle Roth. "By working now with trusted partners, we will ensure that next generation networks reflect our shared security interests, strengthen our competitiveness, and drive innovation." So after President Trump has spent 18 months since inauguration disparaging and threatening America's "trusted partners," the US has decided it would really like their help in becoming the world leader in 6G technology. Isn't that nice? The initiative lays out specific milestones on strategic coordination over the next year or so, as 6G moves toward commercialization. These include engaging with the telecoms industry to understand the "political and economic landscape" for 6G networks and meetings to identify the potential for more coordinated approaches. It also calls for a big meeting in 2027 to review joint progress, where the partners are expected to evaluate funding strategies, share information on 6G research and development, assess 5G and 6G technical and cybersecurity risks, and promote common 6G policies. All of this seems aimed at coordinating positions on the spectrum needed for 6G ahead of the next World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-27). Scheduled for October 18 to November 12 in Shanghai next year, the conference will consider which frequency bands are made available for next-generation mobile networks. But it isn't the first attempt at international collaboration over the next-gen wireless standard. The US-UK Tech Prosperity Deal, agreed last year, proposed greater cooperation in a range of science and technology areas including 6G, but this was put on ice by President Trump after just a few months over trade disagreements. Earlier this year, the Global Coalition on Telecommunications (GCOT) unveiled a set of security and resilience principles it wanted to see baked into 6G from the start. The organization includes many of the same nations as the latest US scheme. "This is a clear attempt by the US and its allies to shape the 6G landscape before commercial networks arrive," PP Foresight founder and analyst Paolo Pescatore told The Register. "The priority is to embed security, resilience, interoperability, and supply-chain diversity from the outset, rather than repeat the costly mistakes and geopolitical tensions that defined the 5G era. "Although China is not explicitly mentioned, the strategic intent is obvious: to reduce dependence on high-risk suppliers and to ensure that trusted nations have greater influence over standards, investment, and innovation. However, this remains a political framework rather than a binding agreement." The first 6G deployments could arrive as soon as 2029, with the US and South Korea likely to lead in early adoption, according to a report from Juniper Research earlier this year. Despite this, the exact characteristics that will define 6G networks have yet to be thrashed out. Bodies representing the mobile networks want to see a smooth and cost-effective migration path for their members, avoiding the mistakes made with 5G, while the GSMA has already put it out there that 6G networks may need up to three times the spectrum currently allocated to meet the anticipated demands for data. ®

Společnost Verisign po více než deseti letech sporů a odkladů oficiálně zařadila doménu nejvyšší úrovně .web do kořenové zóny DNS. Jde o poslední krok před spuštěním registrací, které mají začít ještě letos. Doména .web patří dlouhodobě k nejočekávanějším novým generickým TLD (Top Level Domain), ...

Dne 30. června 2026 byla završena fyzická realizace projektu Czech National Quantum Communication Infrastructure (CZQCI), tedy České národní kvantové komunikační infrastruktury. Projekt byl realizován od 1. března 2023 a financován z Národního plánu obnovy částkou 121,6 milionu Kč. Cílem podpořeného projektu bylo vybudovat základy národní kvantové komunikační infrastruktury a ověřit možnosti jejího praktického využití. Mezi hlavní výsledky projektu patří vznik optického propojení mezi Prahou, Brnem a Ostravou o celkové délce přibližně 600 kilometrů se šesti segmenty kvantové distribuce klíčů (QKD). Síť dále doplnily dvě sekundární metropolitní větve využívající komerční QKD zařízení a dvě metropolitní větve založené na experimentálních QKD technologiích. Realizace zahrnovala také ověření integrace stávajících telekomunikačních systémů s prostředky kvantové komunikace a testování tří scénářů využití pro vojenské účely.

Město Šumperk se stalo terčem kybernetického útoku, chod úřadu je omezen. Zjišťuje se, jestli unikla nějaká data. Cílem hackerů byla městská datová síť. První útoky zaznamenali odborníci na informační technologie již v pondělí večer, závady se ale plně projevily až dnes ráno. Město událost nahlásilo Národnímu úřadu pro kybernetickou a informační bezpečnost (NUKIB).

More than 24,000 internet-exposed servers are leaking authentication password hashes due to a 20-year-old vulnerability in their Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) interface. [...]

Samba, svobodná implementace síťového protokolu SMB/CIFS, byla vydána ve verzích 4.24.5, 4.23.10 a 4.22.11. Řešeno je 6 zranitelností.

The Iranian state-backed hacking group tracked as Nimbus Manticore (aka GalaxyGato, Mirage Kitten, Smoke Sandstorm, Subtle Snail, and UNC1549) has been attributed to a fresh set of attacks targeting entities across the Middle East, Africa, and South Asia. The intrusions involve the use of a previously undocumented Windows backdoor called NightLedger and two custom WebSocket tunnelers, Ravie Lakshmananhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/[email protected]

Pravidelně teď cestuji Pendolinem napříč republikou. Palubní síť CDWiFi hlásí plný signál, ale internet nejede. Není to přitom páteřním spojením, protože České dráhy se spoléhají na 5G tuzemských mobilních operátorů (případně Starlink) a na mobilu po většinu cesty síť funguje. Máte-li stejný ...

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has argued that policymakers should keep lower-risk open-weight AI accessible while placing stricter safeguards around frontier systems, including mandatory testing and limits on China’s access to advanced computing and model capabilities.

In a post outlining Anthropic’s position, Amodei said broad restrictions, including bans on Chinese open-weight models used by US businesses, would not address his main national security concerns. Instead, he pointed to the possibility of authoritarian governments surpassing the US in advanced AI, as well as cyber, biological, and alignment risks posed by increasingly capable systems.

Amodei also called for action against industrial-scale model distillation, which he said allows Chinese developers to improve their models with less computing power than would be needed to train comparable systems from scratch.

The statement followed criticism of Anthropic for not signing an industry letter backed by Nvidia, Microsoft, Meta, IBM, Mistral, Hugging Face and other technology companies urging policymakers to avoid premature restrictions on open-weight models.

The letter said that open weights could broaden access to AI, intensify competition, and enable organizations to adapt and deploy models without relying on a single provider. Amodei agreed with parts of that case but disputed claims that openness inherently improves safety research or gives defenders an advantage over attackers.

He said regulation should be based on a model’s capabilities and risks rather than whether its weights are openly available. Under that approach, sufficiently capable open and closed models would undergo testing before release.

Conditional support

Analysts said Anthropic had moved closer to industry consensus by rejecting blanket bans, but its support remained more limited than the approach backed by many major technology companies.

Deepika Giri, head of research for AI, analytics, and data at IDC, said the Nvidia-backed letter presented open weights as strategic infrastructure that should remain broadly accessible, in contrast with Anthropic’s more restrictive position.

Amodei’s statement clarified that Anthropic supports open-weight models only under certain conditions, a stance that could also help the company preserve its competitive advantages as a proprietary model provider focused on compliance and tighter controls, according to Lian Jye Su, chief analyst at Omdia.

The statement was “a real olive branch” to supporters of open-weight models, according to Pareekh Jain, CEO of Pareekh Consulting. But he said the disagreement had shifted from whether such models should be released to where policymakers should draw the line.

“Anthropic still thinks that once a model gets powerful enough, releasing its weights publicly is riskier than keeping it locked behind an app, because you can never take it back or add safety fixes later,” Jain said.

Will the controls work?

Analysts differed over whether Anthropic’s proposed controls would achieve their aims without creating new barriers for smaller AI developers.

Jain said chip restrictions and measures against illicit model distillation would mainly affect model developers and infrastructure providers, rather than enterprises using models already on the market. Mandatory safety testing, however, could raise development costs and reduce the number of advanced open-weight models available.

“Testing is expensive and time-consuming, and so, giant, well-funded companies like Anthropic, Google and OpenAI can afford it,” Jain said. Smaller developers seeking to release cutting-edge open-weight models could struggle to meet the same requirements, he added.

The additional testing and screening could also restrict the number of open-weight models available to enterprises, according to Su. He said the requirements could weaken some of their principal benefits, including lower costs, reduced vendor dependence and community-led development.

Anand Joshi, managing director of market research firm JP Data, questioned whether limiting China’s access to advanced chips would materially slow its AI development, arguing that Chinese companies had shown they could build highly capable models with less computing power. He supported action against illicit distillation, however, saying safeguards were needed to prevent developers from reproducing the capabilities of other models without authorization.

The impact on most enterprise users could remain limited if less capable models were exempted, Jain said. Businesses deploying models that fall below the proposed testing threshold would probably face little additional cost.

How CIOs should choose

Giri said CIOs should assess models according to their capabilities rather than whether they are open, and should demand independent testing, clear licensing, model documentation and accountability for monitoring and incident response.

“Mandatory safety testing should be triggered by a model’s demonstrated capabilities, not its size or training cost,” Jain said, particularly when a system could significantly assist cyberattacks, biological misuse, or autonomous harmful actions.

Before deployment, CIOs should seek independent evaluations, detailed model documentation, security test results and information about the model’s software supply chain, he added. Charlie Dai, principal analyst at Forrester, said that assessment should include documented red-team results, model provenance, disclosures about training and fine-tuning, and evidence of independent testing against recognized safety benchmarks.