The Digital Childhood Institute, which filed a complaint with the FTC, is part of a newer crop of online safety groups focused on shaping tech policy around conservative political beliefs.
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CISA says threat actors are now actively exploiting a high-severity Windows SMB privilege escalation vulnerability that can let them gain SYSTEM privileges on unpatched systems. [...]
The NSA did not confirm nor deny the allegations made by China’s Ministry of State Security. China said the origins of the attack date back to March 2022.
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Japan's retail sector has felt ripple effects from a cyberattack that disrupted operations at Askul, which sells office and household goods and also has a logistics business.
Several security issues were fixed in Python LDAP.
While some malware stands out by making an effort to blend in, obfuscation is generally the go-to way in which attackers attempt to evade detection and hide their scripts.
In this case, we are referring to malware using variable functions and cookies for obfuscation. The particular malware we want t...
Spyware manufacturer NSO Group will have to pay Meta $4 million instead of $168 million, but will also be barred from targeting the messaging platform in the future.
Moxa has fixed 5 vulnerabilities in its industrial network security appliances and routers, including a remotely exploitable flaw (CVE-2025-6950) that may result in complete system compromise. There’s no mention of these flaws being exploited in the wild, but due to their severity, the company has a...
A new and ongoing supply-chain attack is targeting developers on the OpenVSX and Microsoft Visual Studio marketplaces with self-spreading malware called GlassWorm that has been installed an estimated 35,800 times. [...]
It was discovered that insecure path handling in the Ark archive utility could result in overwriting a user's files. For the oldstable distribution (bookworm), this problem has been fixed in version 4:22.12.3-1+deb12u1. We recommend that you upgrade your ark packages.
Azure Blob Storage is a high-value target for threat actors due to its critical role in storing and managing massive amounts of unstructured data at scale across diverse workloads and is increasingly targeted through sophisticated attack chains that exploit misconfigurations, exposed credentials, an...
Microsoft is rolling out a fix for Active Directory issues affecting some Windows Server 2025 systems after installing security updates released since September. [...]
In the first half of October 2025, we’ve seen zero-day exploits, source code theft, healthcare breaches, and attackers probing water utilities like they own the place. It’s a loud warning for defenders. Attackers are slipping past perimeters and moving laterally inside systems most people overlook,...
Chinese authorities accused the U.S. of compromising the National Time Service Center, a research institute responsible for providing timekeeping services in China for national security applications.
The judge also reduced the amount NSO Group would have to pay in punitive damages from $167.3 million to $4 million.
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Cold emails to CISOs fail 99% of the time—not because security purchases are planned, but because they're reactive. New research shows 77% of cybersecurity deals are triggered by incidents and fear. Companies using targeted account-based strategies achieve 4x higher engagement. Here's what works.
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The Dutch Data Protection Authority issued Experian a €2.7m for GDPR violations including excessive collection of personal data
Author, Creator & Presenter: Dr. May Wang PhD (Palo Alto Networks)
Our thanks to the Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium for publishing their Creators, Authors and Presenter’s superb NDSS Symposium 2025 Conference content on the organization’s’ YouTube channel.
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Gareth Davies, Chairman of F3 (First Forensic Forum), joins the Forensic Focus Podcast to explore how a grassroots, vendor-neutral community has helped shape digital forensics in the UK for three decades.