As generative AI pushes the speed of software development, it is also enhancing the ability of digital attackers to carry out financially motivated or state-backed hacks. This means…
Read more Amazon Is Using Specialized AI Agents for Deep Bug HuntingAmid a government shutdown that has dragged on for more than five weeks, the United States Congressional Budget Office said on Thursday that it recently suffered a hack…
Read more The Government Shutdown Is a Ticking Cybersecurity Time BombThousands of networks—many of them operated by the US government and Fortune 500 companies—face an “imminent threat” of being breached by a nation-state hacking group following the breach…
Read more Why the F5 Hack Created an ‘Imminent Threat’ for Thousands of NetworksAndroid devices are vulnerable to a new attack that can covertly steal two-factor authentication codes, location timelines, and other private data in less than 30 seconds. The new attack,…
Read more A New Attack Lets Hackers Steal 2-Factor Authentication Codes From Android PhonesJust like you probably don’t grow and grind wheat to make flour for your bread, most software developers don’t write every line of code in a new project…
Read more Vibe Coding Is the New Open Source—in the Worst Way PossibleAs businesses around the world have shifted their digital infrastructure over the last decade from self-hosted servers to the cloud, they’ve benefitted from the standardized, built-in security features…
Read more This Microsoft Entra ID Vulnerability Could Have Been CatastrophicSetting up and migrating to Dashlane from another password manager is simple, and you’ll use a secret key to encrypt your passwords, much like BitWarden’s setup process. In…
Read more These are the Password Managers You Should Use Instead of Your BrowserThe password-killing tech known as “passkeys” have proliferated over the past two years, developed by the tech industry association known as the FIDO Alliance as an easier and…
Read more The War on Passwords Is One Step Closer to Being OverOther discussions include: Reddit, Stack Overflow (Spanish), forobeta (Spanish), brainycp (Russian), natnetwork (Indonesian), Proxmox (Deutsch), Camel2243 (Chinese), svrforum (Korean), exabytes, virtualmin, serverfault and many others. After exploiting a…
Read more Stealthy Malware Has Infected Thousands of Linux Systems for YearsThe YubiKey 5, the most widely used hardware token for two-factor authentication based on the FIDO standard, contains a cryptographic flaw that makes the finger-sized device vulnerable to…
Read more YubiKeys Are a Security Gold Standard—but They Can Be ClonedIn recent years, elite commercial spyware vendors like Intellexa and NSO Group have developed an array of powerful hacking tools that exploit rare and unpatched “zero-day” software vulnerabilities…
Read more Powerful Spyware Exploits Enable a New String of ‘Watering Hole’ AttacksDemand for graphics processing units or GPUs has exploded in recent years as video rendering and artificial intelligence systems have expanded the need for processing power. And while…
Read more Google Researchers Found Nearly a Dozen Flaws in Popular Qualcomm Software for Mobile GPUsNew research being presented at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas today shows that a vulnerability in Windows Update could be exploited to downgrade Windows to…
Read more A Flaw in Windows Update Opens the Door to Zombie ExploitsThese platforms take cues in how they are designed and marketed from legitimate information and ecommerce services. Many markets and forums charge a subscription fee to access the…
Read more How Infostealers Pillaged the World’s PasswordsBanks, airports, TV stations, hotels, and countless other businesses are all facing widespread IT outages, leaving flights grounded and causing widespread disruption, after Windows machines have displayed errors…
Read more Huge Microsoft Outage Linked to CrowdStrike Takes Down Computers Around the WorldMicrosoft’s CEO Satya Nadella has hailed the company’s new Recall feature, which stores a history of your computer desktop and makes it available to AI for analysis, as…
Read more Microsoft’s Recall Feature Is Even More Hackable Than You ThoughtThe pledge offers examples of how companies can meet the goals, although it notes that companies “have the discretion to decide how best” to do so. The document…
Read more The US Government Is Asking Big Tech to Promise Better CybersecurityUltimately, Scott argues that those three years of code changes and polite emails were likely not spent sabotaging multiple software projects, but rather building up a history of…
Read more The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
