07 Apr

MSI hit in cyberattack, warns against installing knock-off firmware

Owners of MSI-brand motherboards, GPUs, notebooks, PCs, and other equipment should exercise caution when updating their device’s firmware or BIOS after the manufacturer revealed it

Author rabih
07 Apr

Welcome to open source, Elon. Your Twitter code just got a CVE for shadow ban bug

The chunk of internal source code Twitter released the other week contains a “shadow ban” vulnerability serious enough to earn its own CVE, as it

Author rabih
07 Apr

What Parents Need To Know About TikTok’s New Screen Time Limits

Social media platforms often get a hard time by us parents. But a recent announcement by TikTok of industry first screen time limits might just

Author rabih
07 Apr

It’s this easy to seize control of someone’s Nexx ‘smart’ home plugs, garage doors

A handful of bugs in Nexx’s smart home devices can be exploited by crooks to, among other things, open doors, power off appliances, and disable

Author rabih
07 Apr

With ICMP magic, you can snoop on vulnerable HiSilicon, Qualcomm-powered Wi-Fi

A vulnerability identified in at least 55 Wi-Fi router models can be exploited by miscreants to spy on victims’ data as it’s sent over a

Author rabih
06 Apr

Russia has a stash of scary malware? We’re shocked

Register Kettle Lately, we’ve learned of Russia’s stockpile of cyber-weapons, and we’re genuinely wondering if anyone’s surprised by these revelations. If you’ll allow us some

Author rabih
06 Apr

How to Protect Yourself From Phishing Scams

Ping, it’s a scammer!  The sound of an incoming email, text, or direct message has a way of getting your attention, so you take a

Author rabih
06 Apr

So Russia has a stash of scary malware? Imagine our shock

Register Kettle Lately, we’ve learned of Russia’s stockpile of cyber-weapons, and we’re genuinely wondering if anyone’s surprised by these revelations. If you’ll allow us some

Author rabih
06 Apr

CAN do attitude: How thieves steal cars using network bus

Automotive security experts say they have uncovered a method of car theft relying on direct access to the vehicle’s system bus via a smart headlamp’s

Author rabih
06 Apr

Cleaning up your social media and passwords: What to trash and what to treasure

Give your social media presence a good spring scrubbing, audit your passwords and other easy ways to bring order to your digital chaos Spring has

Author rabih
06 Apr

Criminal records office yanks web portal offline amid ‘cyber security incident’

ACRO, the UK’s criminal records office, is combing over a “cyber security incident” that forced it to pull its customer portal offline. As the name

Author rabih
06 Apr

Cops cuff teenage ‘Robin Hood hacker’ suspected of peddling stolen info

Spanish cops have arrested a 19-year-old suspected of stealing records belonging to half a million taxpayers and developing a database to sell stolen information to

Author rabih
05 Apr

Cops put the squeeze on Genesis crime souk denizens, not just the admins this time

The FBI today released additional information about its takedown of the Genesis Market, a major online shop for stolen account access credentials, revealing that they’d

Author rabih
05 Apr

Cops put the squeeze on Genesis Market denizens, not just the admins this time

The FBI today released additional information about its takedown of the Genesis Market, a major online shop for stolen account access credentials, revealing that they’d

Author rabih
05 Apr

Microsoft tells admins to autoreview your Autopatch alerts or autolose the service

Microsoft is updating a service introduced last year that shifts the responsibility of patching Windows devices from IT admins to the vendor itself. Redmond in

Author rabih
05 Apr

Why you should spring clean your home network and audit your backups

Do you know how many devices are connected to your home network? You don’t? This is precisely why it’s time for a network audit. The

Author rabih
05 Apr

Notorious stolen credential warehouse Genesis Market seized by FBI

A notorious source of stolen credentials, genesis.market, has had its web site seized by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigations. Security vendor Sophos in

Author rabih
05 Apr

Can ChatGPT bash together some data-stealing code? With the right prompts, sure

A Forcepoint staffer has blogged about how he used ChatGPT to craft some code that exfiltrates data from an infected machine. At first, it sounds

Author rabih
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