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YubiKeys Are a Security Gold Standard—but They Can Be Cloned
/in General NewsSecurity researchers have discovered a cryptographic flaw that leaves the YubiKey 5 vulnerable to attack.
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Biden Admin Files Charges Against Election Meddlers From Russia
/in General NewsWorking with the Treasury and Justice departments, the president has sanctioned anti-democratic Russian adversaries.
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Ransomware Gang Claims Cyberattack on Planned Parenthood
/in General NewsPlanned Parenthood confirms “cybersecurity incident” as RansomHub ransomware gang threatens to leak 93 Gb of data stolen from the nonprofit last week.
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Russian GRU Unit Tied to Assassinations Now Linked to Global Cyber Sabotage and Espionage
/in General NewsA secretive Russian military unit, previously linked to assassinations and destabilization in Europe, is blamed for destructive wiper malware attacks in Ukraine.
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IBM Executive on Future Cybersecurity: Passkeys, Deepfakes & Quantum Computing
/in General NewsIBM’s Chris Hockings predicts a safer internet with advances in passkey tech, digital identity, deepfake defenses, and post-quantum cryptography.
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Russian GRU Unit Tied to Assassinations Linked to Global Cyber Sabotage and Espionage
/in General NewsA secretive Russian military unit, previously linked to assassinations and destabilization in Europe, is blamed for destructive wiper malware attacks in Ukraine.
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Litespeed Cache Flaw Exposes Millions of WordPress Sites to Takeover Attacks
/in General NewsDiscovered by security researcher Rafie Muhammad, the flaw allows unauthorized users to take control of logged-in accounts, potentially gaining administrator privileges on WordPress sites.
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Chinese-Speaking Hacker Group Targets Human Rights Studies in Middle East
/in General NewsUnnamed government entities in the Middle East and Malaysia are the target of a persistent cyber campaign orchestrated by a threat actor known as Tropic Trooper since June 2023.
“Sighting this group’s [Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures] in critical governmental entities in the Middle East, particularly those related to human rights studies, marks a new strategic move for them,” Kaspersky
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Veeam Releases Security Updates to Fix 18 Flaws, Including 5 Critical Issues
/in General NewsVeeam has shipped security updates to address a total of 18 security flaws impacting its software products, including five critical vulnerabilities that could result in remote code execution.
The list of shortcomings is below –
CVE-2024-40711 (CVSS score: 9.8) – A vulnerability in Veeam Backup & Replication that allows unauthenticated remote code execution.
CVE-2024-42024 (CVSS score: 9.1
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WordPress Mandates 2FA, SVN Passwords for Plugin, Theme Authors
/in General NewsStarting October 2024, WordPress requires plugin and theme authors to enable two-factor authentication (2FA) and use SVN-specific passwords…
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