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Episode #246: ShellTorch Flaw Affecting Open Source AI Servers; Human Powered Ransomware; Bipartisan Commission Seeks TikTok's Response


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Marcel Brown: October 8th, 1992. The video game Mortal Kombat is released into arcades. Now one of the most popular fighting game series in history, the original Mortal Kombat became well known for its graphic display of blood and deadly finishing moves known as Fatalities.

Edwin Kwan: Security researchers have disclosed multiple critical vulnerabilities in the TorchServe tool that could be chained together to achieve remote code execution on affected systems.

Hillary Coover: Could TikTok's recent personnel shifts from Beijing to the United States be a threat to security of US data? And is the popular app truly independent from its Chinese parent company, ByteDance?

Katy Craig: In a concerning shift, ransomware attacks have taken a sinister turn, with a significant rise in human-operated ransomware incidents, according to Microsoft's annual digital defense report.

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