> TODAY'S SUMMARY (41 articles)
Today's cyber news highlights significant threats, particularly targeting industrial refrigeration systems. The FBI and CISA have issued warnings about attacks that can manipulate temperatures in supermarket refrigeration, posing risks to food safety and supply chains. In the realm of vulnerabilities, a memory safety flaw in CPython could allow AI inference servers to be compromised. Additionally, a critical exploit in OpenSSH may enable unauthorized access to password-disabled accounts on certain Linux systems. Meanwhile, phishing schemes leveraging fake OpenAI events are being reported, aimed at stealing Microsoft and Google accounts. The ongoing escalation of AI-driven attacks is also notable, with incidents targeting fintech firms during off-hours.
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Brexit is discouraging people from coming to the UK, and that is making hiring more challenging
We’re helping Parity Technologies secure their Ethereum client. We’ll begin by auditing their codebase, and look forward to publishing results and the knowledge we gained in the future. Parity Technologies combines cryptography, cellular systems, peer-to-peer technology and decentralized consensus t...
Trend Micro claims attackers are becoming more strategic
Freaky Clown highlighted common failings in what should be highly secure environments
In the past few weeks the details of two critical design flaws in modern processors were finally revealed to the public. Much has been written about the impact of Meltdown and Spectre, but there is scant detail about what these attacks are and how they work. We are going to try our best to fix […]
Big Brother Watch claims 29% have had systems
breached
Fraudsters tricked UK consumers out of ÂŁ200m last year
Summary This is the third part of a blog series covering my security research into Samsung’s TrustZone.
This post covers the following vulnerabilities that I have found:
SVE-2017–8888: Authentication Bypass + Buffer overflow in tlc_server SVE-2017–8889: Stack buffer overflow in ESECOMM Trustlet SVE-...
Thousands of Social Security believed to have been exposed
Cyber-criminals tried to transfer $2m in unauthorized remittances
Putin administration condemned again
Reveals a systematic attempt to swing 2016 election in Trump’s favor
Last year broke the previous all-time record for the highest number of reported vulnerabilities, with 20,832 of them cataloged.
Phishing was up 59% over 2016.
The nine-member group outlines 10 action areas, and it has agreed to pioneer independent certification for infrastructure.
Essex man sentenced to two years behind bars
Backdoors are also on the rise for 2018, according to Comodo
Site wanted party to win last presidential election, according to reported leaks
It contained more than 119,000 scanned documents, including passports, drivers’ licenses, names, home addresses, phone numbers and ZIP codes.