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NationalPublicData.com Hack Exposes a Nation’s Data

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15
Aug

A great many readers this month reported receiving alerts that their Social Security Number, name, address and other personal information were exposed in a breach at a little-known but aptly-named consumer data broker called NationalPublicData.com. This post examines what we know about a breach that has exposed hundreds of millions of consumer records. We’ll also […]

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News, PC, Windows Blog, Windows Insider Program

Announcing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27686 (Canary Channel)

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15
Aug

Hello Windows Insiders, today we are releasing Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 27686 to the Canary Channel. If you are joining the Canary Channel on a new Copilot+ PC from the Dev Channel, Release Preview Channel or retail, please take note of a known issue below. We are also not planning to release SDKs for […]

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Cloud Security Alliance, News

NIST FIPS 203, 204, and 205 Finalized: An Important Step Towards a Quantum-Safe Future

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Written by Mehak Kalsi, Co-Chair, CSA Quantum-Safe Security Working Group.Reviewed by Bruno Huttner, Co-Chair, CSA Quantum-Safe Security Working Group.The Quantum Computing ecosystem has been waiting with bated breath for this moment and it’s finally here. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of the United States has released three (3) Post-Quantum Cryptography (PQC) algorithms […]

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Hacker News, News

SolarWinds Releases Patch for Critical Flaw in Web Help Desk Software

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SolarWinds has released patches to address a critical security vulnerability in its Web Help Desk software that could be exploited to execute arbitrary code on susceptible instances. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-28986 (CVSS score: 9.8), has been described as a deserialization bug. “SolarWinds Web Help Desk was found to be susceptible to a Java deserialization […]

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