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U.S. House Panel Takes on AI Security and Misuse
Much of the testimony – and concerns raised by the committee – focused on the AI advantages for cybercriminals and nation-state actors, advantages that cybersecurity officials say must be countered by increasingly building AI into products.
Consumer-Grade Spyware App Found on US Hotel Check-in Computers
pcTattletale allows remote monitoring of Android or Windows devices and their data. The app claims to run invisibly in the background, undetectable on the target’s workstation.
Inside Operation Diplomatic Specter: Chinese APT Group’s Stealthy Tactics Exposed
Governmental entities in the Middle East, Africa, and Asia are the target of a Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT) group as part of an ongoing cyber espionage campaign dubbed Operation Diplomatic Specter since at least late 2022. "An analysis of this threat...
Are Your SaaS Backups as Secure as Your Production Data?
Conversations about data security tend to diverge into three main threads: How can we protect the data we store on our on-premises or cloud infrastructure? What strategies and tools or platforms can reliably backup and restore data? What would losing all this data...
UserPro Plugin Vulnerability Allows Account Takeover
Patchstack discovered the critical flaw in the plugin’s password reset mechanism, specifically within the userpro_process_form function, which allowed unauthenticated users to change the passwords of other users under certain conditions.
Former White House Cyber Official Jeff Greene to Join CISA
Former White House National Security Council cyber staff member Jeff Greene, the current cybersecurity programs director at the Aspen Institute think tank, is joining the CISA next month, the agency confirmed.
Ivanti Patches Critical Remote Code Execution Flaws in Endpoint Manager
Ivanti on Tuesday rolled out fixes to address multiple critical security flaws in Endpoint Manager (EPM) that could be exploited to achieve remote code execution under certain circumstances. Six of the 10 vulnerabilities – from CVE-2024-29822 through...
OpenText Boosts MDR Offering for MSPs With Pillr Acquisition
The MDR business was stood up in 2018 as a standalone unit within Novacoast, and rebranded in September 2022 from novaSOC to Pillr. Novacoast CEO Paul Anderson served as Pillr's chief executive for most of its existence.
Critical SAML Auth Bypass Vulnerability Found in GitHub Enterprise Server
An authentication bypass vulnerability of maximum severity (CVSS V4 Score: 10.0) tracked as CVE-2024-4985 was recently fixed by GitHub. It impacts GitHub Enterprise Server (GHES) instances using SAML single sign-on (SSO) authentication.
Server-Side Credit Card Skimmer Lodged in Obscure Plugin
There are plenty of widely-used code snippet plugins available but in this case the attackers decided to use a very obscure plugin called Dessky Snippets, with only a few hundred active installations at the time of writing.
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