InfoSec News Nuggets 8/22/2025

DARPA: Closing the Open Source Security Gap With AI Open source components continue to cause huge problems for security practitioners, and AIxCC was created to determine whether automation could help close the gap. At DEF CON 33, DARPA announced the winners of its AI Cyber Challenge (AIxCC), a two-year program in which teams were tasked with using AI technology to secure the open source technology underlying critical infrastructure. Teams developed "cyber reasoning systems" (CRSes) to remediate vulnerabilities during a…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 11/25/2024

Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has 'priorities' – but still won't explain 'spy clause' The UK government has set out plans detailing how it will use the new law it has created to control online platforms and social media – with one telling exception. The Draft Statement of Strategic Priorities for online safety places an emphasis on platform providers preventing online harms in the first place, and collaborating with regulator Ofcom on how the new…
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InfoSec News Nuggets 8/5/2024

UK crimebusters shut down global call-spoofing outfit that claimed 170K-plus victims The UK's National Crime Agency (NCA) has shut down an outfit called Russian Coms – a call-spoofing service believed to have swindled hundreds of thousands of victims. The agency also arrested at least four suspects thought to be involved in the fraudulent operation, which spanned more than 100 countries. Despite the moniker, all four of the arrested men are Brits. In March, the NCA…
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