A zero-day exploit circulating online allows people with physical access to a Windows 11 system to bypass default BitLocker protections […]
Tag: Security
Twin brothers wipe 96 gov’t databases minutes after being fired
“Yeah, they could,” Sohaib agreed. Muneeb noted that an employee they knew would “have some work to do” when the […]
Linux bitten by second severe vulnerability in as many weeks
Both privilege escalation vulnerabilities stem from bugs in the kernel’s handling of page caches stored in memory, allowing untrusted users […]
Chaos erupts as cyberattack disrupts learning platform Canvas amid finals
Chaos erupted at schools and colleges throughout the US on Thursday as a cyberattack disrupted online learning platform Canvas just […]
Mozilla says 271 vulnerabilities found by Mythos have “almost no false positives”
The disbelief was palpable when Mozilla’s CTO last month declared that AI-assisted vulnerability detection meant “zero-days are numbered” and “defenders […]
Widely used Daemon Tools disk app backdoored in monthlong supply-chain attack
One of the follow-on payloads pushed to about a dozen organizations was what Kaspersky described as a “minimalistic backdoor.” It […]
Ubuntu infrastructure has been down for more than a day
Servers operated by Ubuntu and its parent company Canonical were knocked offline on Thursday morning and have remained down ever […]
GPT-5.5 matches heavily hyped Mythos Preview in new cybersecurity tests
Is it just “fear-based marketing”? The new results for GPT-5.5 suggest that, when it comes to cybersecurity risk, Mythos Preview […]
The most severe Linux threat to surface in years catches the world flat-footed
Publicly released exploit code for an effectively unpatched vulnerability that gives root access to virtually all releases of Linux is […]
Why a recent supply-chain attack singled out security firms Checkmarx and Bitwarden
“Current evidence indicates that this data originated from Checkmarx’s GitHub repositories, and that access to those repositories was facilitated through […]