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Aug 8, 2025 
David Wiseman, Vice President of Secure Communications at BlackBerry, dives into the daunting landscape of secure communications. He sheds light on the prevalent misconceptions that cloud understanding in this field. The discussion reveals how vulnerabilities in open-source tools and recent cyberattacks pose significant risks. Wiseman also touches on the challenges of end-to-end encryption and the implications of AI's role in communication security, urging a reevaluation of our current safety measures.
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Critical Flaws In HashiCorp Vault
- Syata discovered nine Vault vulnerabilities that enable auth bypass, privilege escalation, and remote code execution.
- Patch Vault, tighten configurations, and enforce strong identities to prevent full infrastructure compromise.
Satellite Software Is Soft Target
- Vision Space showed common spaceflight software has critical bugs enabling command injection, crashes, and remote code execution.
- Researchers responsibly disclosed issues and vendors remediated them before the Black Hat presentation.
Columbia Data Theft Exposed 870K
- Columbia University confirmed a breach that exposed SSNs and other data for nearly 870,000 people.
- The attackers allegedly accessed systems to support a political agenda opposing affirmative action.