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Security & Lifecycle News
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SSL-VPN Reflected XSS
CVSSv3 Score: 6.1 An Improper Neutralization of Input During Web Page Generation ('Cross-site Scripting') vulnerability [CWE-79] in FortiOS, FortiProxy, FortiPAM and FortiSwi…
Supers override fails to properly override supervisor address
CVSSv3 Score: 6.9 An Improper Restriction of Communication Channel to Intended Endpoints [CWE-923] vulnerability in FortiSIEM Windows Agent may allow an unauthorized attacker…
Unauthenticated VNC access exposed on all interfaces
CVSSv3 Score: 7.7 An Exposure of Resource to Wrong Sphere vulnerability [CWE-668] in FortiSandbox may allow an unauthenticated attacker to access the VNC server of VMs perfor…
Buffer overread in authd and wad daemon
CVSSv3 Score: 4.1 A buffer over-read vulnerability [CWE-126] in FortiOS, FortiProxy, and FortiSASE may allow an authenticated remote attacker to return a portion of device me…
Header injection in Web Filter warning page
CVSSv3 Score: 3.4 An Improper Neutralization of CRLF Sequences in HTTP Headers ('HTTP Response Splitting') vulnerability [CWE-113] in FortiOS and FortiProxy may allow an atta…
Pentagon Suspends CMMC Phase 2 as It Rethinks Contractor Cybersecurity Rules
A new CMMC review and reform task force will conduct a comprehensive review of the program. The post Pentagon Suspends CMMC Phase 2 as It Rethinks Contractor Cybersecurity Rules ap…
Microsoft Maps Three Salesforce Attack Paths Tied to a Year of ShinyHunters Activity
Attackers whose methods line up with the data-extortion group ShinyHunters have spent the past year walking into corporate Salesforce environments without exploiting a single flaw …
Big Blue thinks small, again, with POWER tower
The last proprietary minicomputer, now in ‘deskside’ form if you fancy that
India’s tech services giant HCL is getting into the AI datacenter business
Starting small with $37m and maybe 50MW but reckons full-stack service plan can succeed
Governments to enterprises: Improve your router security hygiene
Global security agencies say enterprises must clean up their act as Russian government-sponsored attackers exploit weaknesses in routers. According to a new multinational cybers…
Gobi X: Creating more energy for AI, not taking it from society
PARTNER CONTENT: How Envision is reversing the datacenter playbook by making computing chase abundant desert power, not the other way around
Zuck's AI ambitions put Meta on course to become America's next big cloud provider
Renting out spare compute is simply the natural progression for any sufficiently large infra company
Zig creator calls Bun’s Claude Rust rewrite ‘unreviewed slop’
The port took just 11 days and about $165,000 at API pricing
Weak Security Continues to Fuel Russian Cyberattacks
In a first, the UK and the EU jointly imposed sanctions on Russian individuals and entities for cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns in the region.
NB582: Infoblox Adds Network Observability with Kentik Buy; Satellite Data Centers vs. the Environment
Take a Network Break! We start with a critical vulnerability in Adobe Coldfusion. On the news front, Infoblox acquires Kentik to add network observability to its portfolio, data ce…
Japan's largest taxi operator shuts systems after cyberattack
Japan's largest taxi operator, Nihon Kotsu, announced that its systems were compromised in a cyberattack, forcing the company to shut down part of its infrastructure. [...]
Excel competition goes extreme, makes spreadsheet geeks compete from the street
Defending world champ Diarmuid Early wins again despite being forced to solve puzzles outdoors
Show HN: I implemented a neural network in SQL
Two weeks ago I was on my babymoon in Corfu, Greece. While in transit, I was overseeing a GSoC intern submit an important feature to my array database library, Xarray-SQL. He added…
Hackers backdoor Jscrambler npm package with infostealer malware
The Jscrambler client-side web security company disclosed that a threat actor published a malicious version of its npm package that has been downloaded almost 1,500 times. [...]
Severe weather an increasing risk for data center construction
AI-driven hyperscale data centers are facing new risks and challenges that extend beyond power shortages and chip supply, according to a new report from Zurich North America. Th…
New CrashStealer malware poses as Apple crash reporting tool
A new macOS information-stealing malware called CrashStealer pretends to be Apple's crash-reporting tool to steal credentials, keychain data, and crypto wallets. [...]
'Yellow Teams' Are Defining the Future of AI Security
In some companies, engineers are building defense and attack tools to test the potential of artificial intelligence for cybersecurity — and its threat.
CrashStealer macOS Malware Uses Notarized Dropper to Pass Gatekeeper Checks
Cybersecurity researchers have flagged a new macOS information stealer called CrashStealer that's capable of harvesting sensitive data from compromised systems. Unlike other infor…
Microsoft chief turns hostile on frontier AI labs, warns companies to guard their IP
Lock it down, warns Satya Nadella, seemingly forgetting the billions Redmond chipped in to OpenAI back in the good old days
Google and Microsoft Pull ModHeader With 1.6 Million Installs After Dormant Collector Found
Google and Microsoft have pulled ModHeader, a popular header-editing extension with roughly 1.6 million installs across Chrome and Edge, after researchers found a hidden browsing-h…
German firm files for insolvency, blames cybercrims who shut down production for 6 weeks
ZEGO-TVZ says the financial fallout from a March cyberattack left shutting its doors as the only option
GigaWiper Lets Threat Actors Choose Their Own Destructive Attack
A modular implant borrows from various malware families to combine both backdoor and wiper activities to maximize impact and minimize operational output.
Astronomers find sugar near the creamy center of the Milky Way (no caramel, though)
First interstellar monosaccharide suggests some of life's ingredients may be scattered across the galaxy