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  • "Cisco Warns of Critical Vulnerability in EoL Small Business Routers"
    Cisco recently announced that no patches will be released for a critical-severity vulnerability impacting small business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 routers, which have reached end of life (EoL).  Tracked as CVE-2023-20025 (CVSS score of 9.0),…
  • "Severe Vulnerabilities Allow Hacking of Asus Gaming Router"
    Cisco’s Talos security researchers have published technical information on three severe vulnerabilities impacting Asus RT-AX82U routers.  The RT-AX82U, a Wi-FI 6 gaming router,  can be configured via an HTTP server that is running on the local…
  • "Twitter: Leak of 200 Million Accounts Not Due to Historic Bug"
    According to Twitter, a trove of over 200 million Twitter account records up for sale on the dark web recently was not obtained by any compromise of the social media firm’s IT systems.  Twitter said that the dataset was the same as that cited in…
  • "Royal Mail Halts International Deliveries After Cyber-Incident"
    The UK’s postal service has recently warned customers of “severe service disruption” for items sent abroad after it suffered an unspecified “cyber-incident.”  The postal service stated that it was temporarily unable to dispatch items to overseas…
  • "ChatGPT Is Enabling Script Kiddies to Write Functional Malware"
    Since its beta release in November 2022, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT has been used to perform various tasks, such as writing poetry, technical papers, novels, and more. Malware development and other forms of cybercrime can now be…
  • "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…
  • "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…
  • "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,…
  • "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…
  • "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…
  • "'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…
  • "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…