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NIST publishes cybersecurity guide for businesses too small to have IT staff

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released cybersecurity guidance for small businesses with no paid employees other than their owners. These businesses include freelancers, sole proprietors, and independent contractors. About 82% of the 34.8 million small businesses in the United States fall into this category, according to the U.S. Small Business Administration’s Office of Advocacy. “Because…

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Ghostunnel: Open-source TLS proxy with mutual authentication

Ghostunnel is an open-source proxy that handles TLS for programs that cannot handle it themselves. It works in two directions. In server mode it sits in front of a backend, accepts TLS connections, checks the client’s certificate, then passes traffic to the service behind it over TCP or a UNIX socket. In client mode it does the reverse, listening for plain local connections, wrapping them in TLS and presenting a clie…

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Secure your containers without breaking what works

Container security has a familiar problem. Teams identify vulnerabilities, but turning those findings into lower risk is much harder. A standard container image may include operating-system packages, development tools, debugging utilities and libraries that an application never uses. Each unnecessary component can expand the attack surface and add vulnerabilities to investigate, patch or explain during an audit. Cons…

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Companies going all in on AI could see their strategy backfire

Four of the five highest-ranked enterprise risks in Gartner’s Quarterly Emerging Risk Report were AI-related. AI strategy miscalculation and AI-driven competitive displacement debuted at No. 3 and No. 4, respectively. The AI workforce preparedness gap held fifth place. AI discovery of cyber vulnerabilities and geopolitical energy supply shocks held the top two spots for the second consecutive quarter. The rankings sh…

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Anthropic open-sources FlashProve, its provable inference prototype for MoE models

Anthropic’s Frontier Red Team, with collaborators at EPFL, MIT and StarkWare, built FlashProve, a prototype that produces a cryptographic proof that one specific language model generated one specific reply. The prover, two verifiers, the formal proofs behind them and a protocol specification are on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license. Source: Anthropic When you send a prompt to a hosted API, you can’t confirm which m…

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