Microsoft on Tuesday shipped fixes to address a total of 90 security flaws, including 10 zero-days, of which six have come under active exploitation in the wild. Of the 90 bugs, nine are rated Critical, 80 are rated Important, and one is rated Moderate in severity. This is also in addition to 36 vulnerabilities that […]
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Ivanti has rolled out security updates for a critical flaw in Virtual Traffic Manager (vTM) that could be exploited to achieve an authentication bypass and create rogue administrative users. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7593, has a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10.0. “Incorrect implementation of an authentication algorithm in Ivanti vTM […]
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The China-backed threat actor known as Earth Baku has diversified its targeting footprint beyond the Indo-Pacific region to include Europe, the Middle East, and Africa starting in late 2022. Newly targeted countries as part of the activity include Italy, Germany, the U.A.E., and Qatar, with suspected attacks also detected in Georgia and Romania. Governments, media […]
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Cyber Intruders Hiding in Plain Sight – APTs Are Everywhere The Disturbing Threat Lurking in Your Network Imagine a spy sneaking into your home, hiding in a closet, and silently watching your every move. Creepy, right? That’s exactly what Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) are doing, but in your computer network. These cyber spies get in […]
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The Next Big Cybersecurity Threat? Why Young Western Hackers Are Joining Forces with Russian Cybercriminals—And What It Means for You A new and deadly alliance is forming in the cyber underworld, and it’s poised to spell disaster for businesses worldwide. Young hackers from the U.S., U.K., and Canada have teamed up with Russia’s most notorious […]
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Microsoft today released updates to fix at least 90 security vulnerabilities in Windows and related software, including a whopping six zero-day flaws that are already being actively exploited by attackers. Image: Shutterstock. This month’s bundle of update joy from Redmond includes patches for security holes in Office, .NET, Visual Studio, Azure, Co-Pilot, Microsoft Dynamics, Teams, […]
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Cyber Attack Shakes Trump-Musk Interview What DDoS Attacks Are, How They Work, and How to Defend Against Them When a cyber onslaught crippled the Trump-Musk interview on X, it exposed the terrifying reality that no business is safe from a DDoS attack. What Happened During the Interview? The much-anticipated interview between Elon Musk and Donald […]
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In episode 11 of The AI Fix, OpenAI battles a Shakespearean lawyer, Graham sings an uncanny bluegrass acrostic, Google drops the ball with a terrible AI ad, and Mark wonders why there’s no sound on a video of an AI dentist. Graham finds religion with a little help from a man named “L Ron”, a […]
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A team of researchers from the CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security in Germany has disclosed an architectural bug impacting Chinese chip company T-Head’s XuanTie C910 and C920 RISC-V CPUs that could allow attackers to gain unrestricted access to susceptible devices. The vulnerability has been codenamed GhostWrite. It has been described as a direct CPU […]
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