Security News > 2025 > January

Bad Tenable plugin updates take down Nessus agents worldwide
2025-01-03 22:57

Tenable says customers must manually upgrade their software to revive Nessus vulnerability scanner agents taken offline on December 31st due to buggy differential plugin updates. [...]

Friday Squid Blogging: Anniversary Post
2025-01-03 22:04

I made my first squid post nineteen years ago this week. Between then and now, I posted something about squid every week (with maybe only a few exceptions). There is a lot out there about squid,...

How To Use SCP (Secure Copy) With SSH Key Authentication
2025-01-03 17:00

Here's how to use the secure copy command, in conjunction with ssh key authentication, for an even more secure means of copying files to your remote Linux servers.

US sanctions Chinese company linked to Flax Typhoon hackers
2025-01-03 16:19

​The U.S. Treasury Department has sanctioned Beijing-based cybersecurity company Integrity Tech (also known as Yongxin Zhicheng) for its involvement in cyberattacks attributed to the Chinese...

Malicious npm packages target Ethereum developers' private keys
2025-01-03 15:53

Twenty malicious packages impersonating the Hardhat development environment used by Ethereum developers are targeting private keys and other sensitive data. [...]

ShredOS
2025-01-03 14:46

ShredOS is a stripped-down operating system designed to destroy data. GitHub page here.

Apple offers $95 million in Siri privacy violation settlement
2025-01-03 14:30

Apple has agreed to pay $95 million to settle a class action lawsuit in the U.S. alleging that its Siri assistant recorded private conversations and shared them with third parties. [...]

French govt contractor Atos denies Space Bears ransomware attack claims
2025-01-03 14:20

French tech giant Atos, which secures communications for the country's military and secret services, has denied claims made by the Space Bears ransomware gang that they compromised one of its...

CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode
2025-01-03 13:15

As if the bot defense measure wasn't obnoxious enough Though the same couldn't be said for most of us mere mortals, Vercel CEO Guillermo Rauch had a productive festive period, resulting in a...

Boffins carve up C so code can be converted to Rust
2025-01-03 12:33

Mini-C is a subset of C that can be automatically turned to Rust without much fuss Computer scientists affiliated with France's Inria and Microsoft have devised a way to automatically turn a...