Information Security (Page 46)

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has confirmed its plans to establish a new measure for organizations suffering from cyberattacks. This provision requires publicly traded companies to disclose anyRead More →

A hacking group announced the creation of an online tool that allows users to send automatic text messages to random phone numbers in Russia in order to spread information aboutRead More →

A Chinese government-sponsored cyber spying group reportedly compromised multiple computer networks in six U.S. states by exploiting a dangerous vulnerability in a counting system for the livestock industry as partRead More →

A team made up of multiple cybersecurity firms published a report related to the detection of denial of service (DoS) attacks with an amplification rate of more than 4 billionRead More →

In its latest security alert, Microsoft reports a bug in its Azure cloud platform that allowed users full access to other users’ accounts. The flaw, dubbed as “AutoWarp”, was reportedRead More →

Cybersecurity specialists report the detection of a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in version 5.8 of the Linux kernel. Tracked as CVE-2022-0847 and nicknamed Dirty Pipe, the vulnerability was introduced inRead More →

The Lapsus$ hacking group is abusing stolen NVIDIA code signing certificates to inadvertently sign malware on vulnerable Windows deployments. This week, NVIDIA confirmed that it suffered a cyberattack that allowedRead More →

Mozilla security teams announced the release of an emergency update to address two zero-day vulnerabilities in the Firefox browser recently exploited in the wild. Tracked as CVE-2022-26485 and CVE-2022-26486, theRead More →

Cybersecurity specialists report the detection of a denial of service (DoS) attack with very interesting features. According to Imperva researchers, this attack reaches a rate of 2.5 million requests perRead More →