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Cybersecurity researchers today issued a security advisory warning enterprises and governments across the globe to immediately patch a highly-critical remote code execution vulnerability affecting F5’s BIG-IP networking devices running application security servers. The vulnerability, assigned CVE-2020-5902 and rated as critical with a CVSS score of 10 out of 10, could . . . Read more

Social media platform Twitter, earlier today on Wednesday, was on fire after it suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history. A number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple, were breached simultaneously . . . Read more

In a report shared with The Hacker News, researchers at cybersecurity firm CheckPoint today disclosed details of a minor but easy-to-exploit flaw they reported in Zoom, the highly popular and widely used video conferencing software. The latest Zoom flaw could have allowed attackers mimic an organization, tricking its employees or . . . Read more
Credit: Adobe Stock To help labs characterize the toughness of steel, a new software package allows analysis of instrumented Charpy tests, or Charpy tests augmented with strain gauges, in compliance with standards from ASTM and ISO. The NIST Instrumented Charpy Analysis Software, or NICAS, is available free of charge from . . . Read more

Cybersecurity researchers today uncovered a new strain of banking malware that targets not only banking apps but also steals data and credentials from social networking, dating, and cryptocurrency apps—in total 337 non-financial Android applications on it’s target list. Dubbed “BlackRock” by ThreatFabric researchers, which discovered the trojan in May, its . . . Read more
ESET researchers lure GMERA malware operators to remotely control their Mac honeypots We’ve recently discovered websites distributing malicious cryptocurrency trading applications for Mac. This malware is used to steal information such as browser cookies, cryptocurrency wallets and screen captures. Analyzing the malware samples, we quickly found that this was a . . . Read more
The company urges organizations to waste no time in installing updates to fix the vulnerability that rates a ‘perfect’ 10 on the severity scale Microsoft has released a patch addressing a vulnerability that has been present in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server for no fewer than 17 years. Dubbed . . . Read more
The company urges organizations to waste no time in installing updates to fix the vulnerability that rates a ‘perfect’ 10 on the severity scale Microsoft has released a patch addressing a vulnerability that has been present in Windows Domain Name System (DNS) Server for no fewer than 17 years. Dubbed . . . Read more
It appears that the July 2019 breach at MGM Resorts affected far more people than initially thought The data breach at MGM Resorts that we also wrote about earlier this year may have been far larger than previously thought. In February, when the incident was disclosed, the estimated number of . . . Read more
ESET malware researcher Lukas Stefanko gives us a peek behind the scenes of his analysis of CryCryptor ransomware and puts the threat into a broader context The COVID-19 pandemic has reshaped the way we work and, in many cases, also the way we interact with our loved ones. While a . . . Read more