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Tom Uren and Amberleigh Jack talk about new research that shows that Chinese open-weight AI models can be reeducated to remove pro-CCP bias. Good news for American businesses that want cheap AI, but we suspect that many knives will still be out for Chinese open-weight models.

They also discuss the near-misses from the PHP and Brotli bugs. We collectively dodged the bullet so that we only got grazed, but the good luck won’t last forever.

Finally, Tom looked at CISA’s 2030 strategy. Amazingly, it doesn’t really mention AI at all. Bizarre!

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Moldova takes down more than 80 public services after a cyberattack, the White House launches a new cybersecurity pilot program, South Korea arrests an AI-assisted cybercrime ring, and the Electrum wallet patches a crypto-stealing bug.



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Risky Bulletin: Moldova takes down 80+ public services after cyberattack

In this edition of Between Two Nerds Tom Uren and The Grugq talk about security culture. The PHP foundation seems to have had a change of heart about security, but what are the chances that OpenAI or other frontier AI labs will start to take it seriously?

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Today's PHP Security Release, and How We're Strengthening PHP Security


Stefan Esser's month of PHP bugs


Andon cord

While everyone was distracted by PHP, another RCE has been wrecking the internet, Australia’s ABC wipes some staff devices, a third PHP RCE is incoming and researchers discover a new DDoS attack vector in HTTP/3.



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Risky Bulletin: While everyone was looking at PHP, another RCE is wrecking what's left of the internet

In this Risky Business sponsored interview James Wilson chats to Nebulock’s Head of Detection Strategy Alex Hurtado about the company’s threat hunting evaluation framework, GATES.

The pair talk through the five steps of Nebulock’s new acronym, and how they help remove gut feelings and guesswork when asking the question: “Should this threat hunt find be promoted to a detection rule”?



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The GATES Method: when a hunt becomes a detection