A botnet previously considered to be rendered inert has been observed enslaving end-of-life (EoL) small home/small office (SOHO) routers and IoT devices to fuel a criminal proxy service called Faceless. “TheMoon, which emerged in 2014, has been operating quietly while growing to over 40,000 bots from 88 countries in January and February of 2024,” the Black Lotus Labs […]
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Network penetration testing plays a vital role in detecting vulnerabilities that can be exploited. The current method of performing pen testing is pricey, leading many companies to undertake it only when necessary, usually once a year for their compliance requirements. This manual approach often misses opportunities to find and fix security issues early on, leaving […]
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PyPI repository shuts to stop malicious uploads, a plea to developers to stop creating apps with SQL vulnerabilities, and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Friday, March 29th, 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. I’ve reported before that threat actors are increasingly uploading malicious code […]
If you’ve been searching for a hands-on Talkio AI review, you’ve come to the right place. I used the tool for a week to test how well it works. I’ll tell you everything about the platform’s features, pricing, and effectiveness and give you an easy guide on how to use it. Itching to know more? […]
Details have emerged about a vulnerability impacting the “wall” command of the util-linux package that could be potentially exploited by a bad actor to leak a user’s password or alter the clipboard on certain Linux distributions. The bug, tracked as CVE-2024-28085, has been codenamed WallEscape by security researcher Skyler Ferrante. It has been described as a case […]
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Higher education institutions and students will have to wait an extra month to access Copilot for Microsoft 365, the premium AI add-on for Microsoft 365. Originally scheduled for an April 1st launch, Microsoft has pushed back the availability date to May 1st, 2024. No reason was given for the delay in the official blog post. […]
Microsoft has recently announced that security features, like revamped ransomware detection and expanded Personal Vault, are coming to Outlook. The post OneDrive for Microsoft 365 Basic customers now get 100GB Personal Vault & better security appeared first on MSPoweruser.
Microsoft has just recently launched Windows 11 Insider Preview Build 26090 for both Dev and Canary channels. The post Microsoft is removing build watermarks for Windows 11 insiders appeared first on MSPoweruser.
The maintainers of the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository briefly suspended new user sign-ups following an influx of malicious projects uploaded as part of a typosquatting campaign. It said “new project creation and new user registration” was temporarily halted to mitigate what it said was a “malware upload campaign.” The incident was resolved 10 hours later, on […]