Security News > 2024 > November

Social engineering scams sweep through financial institutions
2024-11-13 04:00

North American financial institutions fielded 10 times more reports of social engineering scams in 2024 than they did a year ago, according to BioCatch. The data shows scams now represent 23% of...

Admins can give thanks this November for dollops of Microsoft patches
2024-11-13 01:29

Don't be a turkey – get these fixed Patch Tuesday Patch Tuesday has swung around again, and Microsoft has released fixes for 89 CVE-listed security flaws in its products – including two under...

China's Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet surge back with a vengeance
2024-11-13 00:58

Ohm, for flux sake China's Volt Typhoon crew and its botnet are back, compromising old Cisco routers once again to break into critical infrastructure networks and kick off cyberattacks, according...

Air National Guardsman gets 15 years after splashing classified docs on Discord
2024-11-13 00:01

Jack Teixeira, 22, talked of 'culling the weak minded' – hmm! A former Air National Guard member who stole classified American military secrets, and showed them to his gaming buddies on Discord,...

Microsoft fixes bugs causing Windows Server 2025 blue screens, install issues
2024-11-12 23:35

​Microsoft has fixed several bugs that cause install, upgrade, and Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) issues on Windows Server 2025 devices with a high core count. [...]

Microsoft Exchange adds warning to emails abusing spoofing flaw
2024-11-12 21:45

Microsoft has disclosed a high-severity Exchange Server vulnerability that allows attackers to forge legitimate senders on incoming emails and make malicious messages a lot more effective. [...]

Here's what we know about the suspected Snowflake data extortionists
2024-11-12 21:10

A Canadian and an American living in Turkey 'walk into' cloud storage environments… Two men allegedly compromised what's believed to be multiple organizations' Snowflake-hosted cloud environments,...

Microsoft fixes actively exploited zero-days (CVE-2024-43451, CVE-2024-49039)
2024-11-12 20:49

November 2024 Patch Tuesday is here, and Microsoft has dropped fixes for 89 new security issues in its various products, two of which – CVE-2024-43451 and CVE-2024-49039 – are actively exploited...

D-Link won’t fix critical bug in 60,000 exposed EoL modems
2024-11-12 20:31

Tens of thousands of exposed D-Link routers that have reached their end-of-life are vulnerable to a critical security issue that allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to change any user's...

Windows 10 KB5046613 update released with fixes for printer bugs
2024-11-12 19:37

Microsoft has released the KB5046613 cumulative update for Windows 10 22H2 and Windows 10 21H2, which includes ten changes and fixes, including the new Microsoft account manager on the Start menu...