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Silent Patch Tuesday mitigation ends ability to hide malicious commands in .lnk files

Microsoft has quietly closed off a critical Windows shortcut file bug long abused by espionage and cybercrime networks.…

Cloudflare data shows 29.7 Tbps record-breaker landed amid 87% surge in network-layer attacks

The internet has spent the past three months ducking for cover as the Aisuru botnet hurled record-shattering DDoS barrages from an army of up to 4 million infected machines.…

Tricky tradeoffs are hard to avoid when designing systems, but the choice not to use LLMs for some tasks is clear

Systems Approach  As we neared the finish line for our network security book, I received a piece of feedback from Brad Karp that my explanation of forward secrecy in the chapter on TLS (Transport Layer Security) was not quite right.…

Ferrous Systems achieves IEC 61508 (SIL 2) certification for systems that demand reliability

Memory-safe Rust code can now be more broadly applied in devices that require electronic system safety, at least as measured by International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) standards.…