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On Friday, ProPublica and The Atlanta Journal-Constitution revealed that the Georgia Bureau of Investigation found "No evidence of damage to network or computers, and no evidence of theft, damage, or loss of data." Kemp's hacking claim followed a report from a voter with software development experience about access control vulnerabilities in the state's My Voter Page and its online voter registration system.
Now, Cisco reveals that salt-master servers that are used with Cisco Virtual Internet Routing Lab Personal Edition were upgraded on May 7, and that, on the same day, they were found to have been compromised through the aforementioned vulnerabilities. "Cisco identified that the Cisco maintained salt-master servers that are servicing Cisco VIRL-PE releases 1.2 and 1.3 were compromised. The servers were remediated on May 7, 2020," the company announced in an advisory.
In 1965, Gordon Moore published a short informal paper, Cramming more components onto integrated circuits. Based on not much more but these few data points and his knowledge of silicon chip development - he was head of R&D at Fairchild Semiconductors, the company that was to seed Silicon Valley - he said that for the next decade, component counts by area could double every year.
While some tweets taking aim at Houseparty appear to be dubious, evidence of any smear campaign has yet to surface, and it appears the $1m bounty has not been awarded. The Register twice asked Houseparty to confirm this.
While some tweets taking aim at Houseparty appear to be dubious, evidence of any smear campaign has yet to surface, and it appears the $1m bounty has not been awarded. The Register twice asked Houseparty to confirm this.
Budget British airline Easyjet has been hacked, it has told the stock markets, admitting nine million people's details were accessed and more than 2,000 customers' credit card details stolen. Easyjet insists that the passport and credit card details of nearly all of those people were not affected.
Budget British airline Easyjet has been hacked, it has told the stock markets, admitting nine million people's details were accessed and more than 2,000 customers' credit card details stolen. Easyjet insists that the passport and credit card details of nearly all of those people were not affected.
Texas' transportation agency has become the second part of the state government to be hit by a ransomware attack in recent days. On Thursday, someone hacked into the Texas Department of Transportation's network in a "Ransomware event," according to a statement the department posted on social media Friday.
Britain's Ministry of Defence contractor Interserve has been hacked, reportedly leaking the details of up to 100,000 of past and current employees, including payment information and details of their next of kin. The Daily Telegraph reports that up to 100,000 employee details were stolen, dating back across a number of years.
A new version of COMpfun remote access trojan has been discovered in the wild that uses HTTP status codes to control compromised systems targeted in a recent campaign against diplomatic entities in Europe. In addition to functioning as a fully-featured RAT capable of capturing keystrokes, screenshots, and exfiltrating sensitive data, this new variant of COMpfun monitors for any removable USB devices plugged to the infected systems to spread further and receives commands from an attacker-controlled server in the form of HTTP status codes.