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Microsoft pulls Exchange security updates over mail delivery issues
2024-11-15 15:23

Microsoft has pulled the November 2024 Exchange security updates released during this month's Patch Tuesday because of email delivery issues on servers using custom mail flow rules. [...]

Palo Alto Networks warns of critical RCE zero-day exploited in attacks
2024-11-15 14:44

Palo Alto Networks is warning that a critical zero-day vulnerability on Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFW) management interfaces, currently tracked as 'PAN-SA-2024-0015,' is actively being exploited...

Bitfinex burglar bags 5 years behind bars for Bitcoin heist
2024-11-15 14:09

A nervous wait for rapper wife who also faces a stint in the clink The US is sending the main figure behind the 2016 intrusion at crypto exchange Bitfinex to prison for five years after he stole...

Cybercriminals hijack DNS to build stealth attack networks
2024-11-15 13:52

Hijacking domains using a ‘Sitting Ducks attack’ remains an underrecognized topic in the cybersecurity community. Few threat researchers are familiar with this attack vector, and knowledge is...

Cyber crooks push Android malware via letter
2024-11-15 13:23

Cyber crooks are trying out an interesting new approach for getting information-stealing malware installed on Android users’ smartphones: a physical letter impersonating MeteoSwiss (i.e.,...

Researchers Warn of Privilege Escalation Risks in Google's Vertex AI ML Platform
2024-11-15 12:35

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed two security flaws in Google's Vertex machine learning (ML) platform that, if successfully exploited, could allow malicious actors to escalate privileges...

Good Essay on the History of Bad Password Policies
2024-11-15 12:05

Stuart Schechter makes some good points on the history of bad password policies: Morris and Thompson’s work brought much-needed data to highlight a problem that lots of people suspected was bad,...

Live Webinar: Dive Deep into Crypto Agility and Certificate Management
2024-11-15 11:48

In the fast-paced digital world, trust is everything—but what happens when that trust is disrupted? Certificate revocations, though rare, can send shockwaves through your operations, impacting...

Vietnamese Hacker Group Deploys New PXA Stealer Targeting Europe and Asia
2024-11-15 11:12

A Vietnamese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an information-stealing campaign targeting government and education entities in Europe and Asia with a new Python-based malware called PXA...

Palo Alto Networks firewalls, Expedition under attack (CVE-2024-9463, CVE-2024-9465)
2024-11-15 11:09

Attackers have been spotted exploiting two additional vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-9463, CVE-2024-9465) in Palo Alto Networks’ Expedition firewall configuration migration tool, CISA has confirmed on...