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Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin
2025-01-22 15:30

Ross Ulbricht's family are now appealing for donations to support his reintegration into society Silk Road founder Ross Ulbricht is now a free man after US President Donald Trump made good on his...

Windows 11 24H2 now also offered to all eligible Windows 10 PCs
2025-01-22 15:19

Microsoft says Windows 11 24H2 has entered the broad deployment phase and is now available to all seekers via Windows Update. [...]

IPany VPN breached in supply-chain attack to push custom malware
2025-01-22 15:11

South Korean VPN provider IPany was breached in a supply chain attack by the "PlushDaemon" China-aligned hacking group, who compromised the company's VPN installer to deploy the custom...

Use this AI chatbot prompt to create a password-exclusion list
2025-01-22 15:00

Creating a custom password-exclusion list can help prevent employees from using passwords that are likely to be guessed. Learn from Specops Software on using AI to generate password dictionary for...

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Mirai botnet behind the largest DDoS attack to date
2025-01-22 14:54

Researchers have uncovered two Mirai-based botnets harnessing Internet of Things (IoT) devices to DDoS target organizations around the world. The Murdoc botnet Qualys researchers have laid bare...

Hackers exploit 16 zero-days on first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025
2025-01-22 14:38

On the first day of Pwn2Own Automotive 2025, security researchers exploited 16 unique zero-days and collected $382,750 in cash awards. [...]

Hackers Exploit Zero-Day in cnPilot Routers to Deploy AIRASHI DDoS Botnet
2025-01-22 13:53

Threat actors are exploiting an unspecified zero-day vulnerability in Cambium Networks cnPilot routers to deploy a variant of the AISURU botnet called AIRASHI to carry out distributed...

Infosec was literally the last item in Trump's policy plan, yet major changes are likely on his watch
2025-01-22 13:15

Everyone agrees defense matters. How to do it is up for debate Feature The Trump administration came to office this week without a detailed information security policy, but analysis of cabinet...

How to Create a Secure Username
2025-01-22 13:00

Discover how to create a unique and secure username for your online accounts, and find out why it’s just as important as having a strong password.

48,000+ internet-facing Fortinet firewalls still open to attack
2025-01-22 12:27

Despite last week’s confirmation of and warnings about long-standing exploitation of CVE-2024-55591, a critical vulnerability affecting Fortinet Fortigate firewalls, too many vulnerable devices...