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5 Best VPNs for Android in 2024
2024-01-17 18:41

In this article, I'll be running down a quick list of the five best VPNs for Android in 2024. While all the VPNs on this list secure your internet connection on your Android device, not all of them share the same set of features and pricing.

CISA pushes federal agencies to patch Citrix RCE within a week
2024-01-17 18:31

Today, CISA ordered U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against three recently patched Citrix NetScaler and Google Chrome zero-days actively exploited in attacks, pushing for a Citrix RCE bug to be patched within a week. Citrix urged customers on Tuesday to immediately patch Internet-exposed Netscaler ADC and Gateway appliances against the CVE-2023-6548 code injection vulnerability and the CVE-2023-6549 buffer overflow impacting the Netscaler management interface that could be exploited for remote code execution and denial-of-service attacks, respectively.

iShutdown scripts can help detect iOS spyware on your iPhone
2024-01-17 18:03

Security researchers found that infections with high-profile spyware Pegasus, Reign, and Predator could be discovered on compromised Apple mobile devices by checking Shutdown. Kaspersky released Python scripts to help automate the process of analyzing the Shutdown.

AMD, Apple, Qualcomm GPUs leak AI data in LeftoverLocals attacks
2024-01-17 15:32

A new vulnerability dubbed 'LeftoverLocals' affecting graphics processing units from AMD, Apple, Qualcomm, and Imagination Technologies allows retrieving data from the local memory space. [...]

Wazuh: Building robust cybersecurity architecture with open source tools
2024-01-17 15:04

Building a cybersecurity architecture requires organizations to leverage several security tools to provide multi-layer security in an ever-changing threat landscape. Organizations require various security tools that satisfy the key areas of a security architecture as they each play a role in securing digital assets.

What's worse than paying an extortion bot that auto-pwned your database?
2024-01-17 15:00

Publicly exposed PostgreSQL and MySQL databases with weak passwords are being autonomously wiped out by a malicious extortion bot - one that marks who pays up and who is not getting their data back. Origin unknown, the bot is routinely breaching poorly protected databases within hours of exposure to the internet, according to security researchers at Border0.

PAX PoS Terminal Flaw Could Allow Attackers to Tamper with Transactions
2024-01-17 13:51

The point-of-sale (PoS) terminals from PAX Technology are impacted by a collection of high-severity vulnerabilities that can be weaponized by threat actors to execute arbitrary code. The STM Cyber...

This Free Discovery Tool Finds and Mitigates AI-SaaS Risks
2024-01-17 13:30

Wing Security announced today that it now offers free discovery and a paid tier for automated control over thousands of AI and AI-powered SaaS applications. This will allow companies to better...

Code Written with AI Assistants Is Less Secure
2024-01-17 12:14

"At least, that's true today, with today's programmers using today's AI assistants." "Overall, we find that participants who had access to an AI assistant based on OpenAI's codex-davinci-002 model wrote significantly less secure code than those without access."

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Windows Server 2022 patch is breaking apps for some users
2024-01-17 11:45

The latest Windows Server 2022 patch has broken the Chrome browser, and short of uninstalling the update, a registry hack is the only way to restore service for affected users. KB5034129 is a security update for Windows Server 2022 and was released on January 9, 2024.