Hackers hijacked the official contact email for the Belgian Grand Prix event and used it to lure fans to a fake website promising a €50 gift voucher. […]
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A new denial-of-service attack dubbed ‘Loop DoS’ targeting application layer protocols can pair network services into an indefinite communication loop that creates large volumes of traffic. […]
GitHub introduced a new AI-powered feature capable of speeding up vulnerability fixes while coding. This feature is in public beta and automatically enabled on all private repositories for GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) customers […]
Ivanti warned customers to immediately patch a critical severity Standalone Sentry vulnerability reported by NATO Cyber Security Centre researchers. […]
The makers of Flipper Zero have responded to the Canadian government’s plan to ban the device in the country, arguing that it is wrongfully accused of facilitating car thefts. […]
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Misconfigured Firebase instances are leaking passwords, a China-related threat actor is hacking governments and more. Welcome to Cyber Security Today. It’s Wednesday, March 20th. 2024. I’m Howard Solomon, contributing reporter on cybersecurity for ITWorldCanada.com and TechNewsday.com in the U.S. Misconfigured web services on 900 sites that use Google’s Firebase web application development platform are leaking […]
Users of the social media platform X (Twitter) have often been left puzzled when they click on a post with an external link but arrive at an entirely unexpected website from the one displayed. A Twitter ad spotted below by a security researcher shows forbes.com as its destination but instead takes you to a Telegram account. […]
Three cybersecurity researchers discovered close to 19 million plaintext passwords exposed on the public internet by misconfigured instances of Firebase, a Google platform for hosting databases, cloud computing, and app development. […]
U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan warned governors today that hackers are “striking” critical infrastructure across the country’s water sector. […]
The Cyber Crime Center (DC3) of the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) says it has reached the milestone of processing its 50,000th vulnerability report submitted by 5,635 researchers since its inception in November 2016. […]