Australian Man Charged for Fake Wi-Fi Scam on Domestic Flights

An Australian man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with an aim to steal user credentials and data.
The unnamed 42-year-old “allegedly established fake free Wi-Fi access points, which mimicked legitimate networks, to capture personal data from unsuspecting victims who mistakenly connected to them,” the Australian Federal Police (AFP) said in a press

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Papua New Guinea Sets High Bar in Data Security

The small island nation’s new data protection and governance policy reflects a forward-thinking cybersecurity strategy.

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Deepfakes will cost $40 billion by 2027 as adversarial AI gains momentum

Now one of the fastest-growing forms of adversarial AI, deepfakes-related losses are expected to soar from $12.3 billion in 2023.Read More

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CISA Report Finds Most Open-Source Projects Contain Memory-Unsafe Code

Analysts found that 52% of open-source projects are written in memory-unsafe languages like C and C++.

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Multi-Malware ‘Cluster Bomb’ Campaign Drops Widespread Cyber Havoc

“Unfurling Hemlock” has deployed malware on tens of thousands of systems worldwide by nesting multiple malicious files inside other malicious files.

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Google Opens $250K Bug Bounty Contest for VM Hypervisor

If security researchers can execute a guest-to-host attack using a zero-day vulnerability in the KVM open source hypervisor, Google will make it worth their while.

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regreSSHion: Critical Vulnerability in OpenSSH Exposes Millions of Servers

A critical vulnerability in OpenSSH (regreSSHion) allows attackers full access to servers! Millions at risk. Learn how to…

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Prudential Data Breach Victim Count Soars to 2.5M

The company seemingly underestimated the severity of the breach after originally providing a head count of roughly 36,000 impacted individuals.

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‘RegreSSHion’ Bug Threatens Takeover of Millions of Linux Systems

The high-severity CVE-2024-6387 in OpenSSH is a reintroduction of a 2006 flaw, and it allows unauthenticated RCE as root.

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Juniper Rushes Out Emergency Patch for Critical Smart Router Flaw

Although not yet exploited in the wild, the max-critical authentication bypass bug could allow adversaries to take over unpatched Juniper Session Smart Routers and Conductors, and WAN Assurance Routers, the company warns.

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