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"Dr. Michael Fire Pioneers Method to Track Groups of Anomalous Users"Malicious or fake online users have become a significant nuisance on Internet networks. While there has been much concern about their rising frequency, few have created ways to track and expose them. A researcher at Ben-Gurion University (BGU) of the…
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"Privacy on the Line: Boffins Break VoLTE Phone Security"A group of academics from the Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications and the University of Birmingham developed a telecom network attack that can reveal call metadata during VoLTE/VoNR conversations. Voice over LTE (VoLTE) is a packet-based…
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"Chrome 109 Patches 17 Vulnerabilities"Google recently announced the release of Chrome 109 in the stable channel with patches for 17 vulnerabilities, including 14 bugs reported by external researchers. Most of the externally reported security defects are medium- and low-severity flaws,…
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"Researchers Could Track the GPS Location of All of California's New Digital License Plates"A team of security researchers gained "super administrator access" to Reviver, the company responsible for the rollout of California's new digital license plates. According to a blog post by the researchers, this access allowed them to track the physical…
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"Danish Banks Are Targets of Pro-Russian DDoS Hacking Group"In recent Distributed Denial-of-Service (DDoS) attacks, the hacker group NoName057(16) hit different Danish banks, causing operational delays for many of the impacted banks. Some of the largest financial institutions were targeted by the group, including…
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"'No Evidence' of Cyberattack Related to FAA Outage, White House Says"According to a statement made by the White House, there is no sign "at this point" that a cyberattack caused an FAA systems outage that triggered authorities to halt all domestic air travel departures Wednesday. The FAA said that an overnight…
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"Apps Gain More Security Flaws as They Get Older"A recent report from the security testing company Veracode reveals that while 32 percent of applications have vulnerabilities during the initial scan, nearly 70 percent contain at least one security flaw after five years in production. The report…
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"Sensitive Files From San Francisco Transit Police Allegedly Leaked"Threat actors have allegedly posted a large number of sensitive files online after exploiting a vulnerability in the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit System (BART) Police Department. The leaked files include around 120,000 files, with specific…
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"Researchers Claim CircleCI Breach May Affect Other Cloud, Third-Party Applications"Researchers are warning that the recent CircleCI security incident impacts not just companies using the CircleCI development platform, but also other third-party applications connected with the platform, including GitHub, AWS, GCP, and Azure. After the…
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"US CISA adds MS Exchange bug CVE-2022-41080 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog"The US Department of Homeland Security's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two more vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) Catalog. The first flaw is a Microsoft Exchange server privilege escalation…
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"British Manufacturing Firm Morgan Advanced Materials Investigating Cyberattack"UK-based manufacturing company Morgan Advanced Materials revealed recently that it’s investigating a cybersecurity incident. The company has launched an investigation after detecting unauthorized activity on its network. The company stated…
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"251k Impacted by Data Breach at Insurance Firm Bay Bridge Administrators"A third-party administrator of insurance products, Bay Bridge Administrators (BBA), is informing roughly 250,000 individuals that their personal information might have been compromised in a September 2022 data breach. Recently the Austin, Texas-…