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Popular Ruby Asciidoc toolkit patched against critical vuln – get the update now!
by Paul Ducklin If you’ve ever written technical documentation to use online, you probably started out by creating it directly in HTML (hypertext markup language), so you could drop it directly into your website. You may have used various HTML editors that gave you a...
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S3 Ep77: Bugs, busts and old-school PDP-11 hacking [Podcast]
by Paul Ducklin LISTEN NOW [01’34”] LAPSUS$ hacking, 2022-style. [06’11”] Zero-day emergency updates from Apple. [08’46”] Elevation of privilege patches in Android. [09’41”] Bugs fixed in Firefox 99. [11’00”] The SATAN network scanner and its impact on threat reponse....
Serious Security: Darkweb drugs market Hydra taken offline by German police
by Paul Ducklin German police have located and closed down the servers of Hydra, allegedly one of the world’s biggest underground online stores. Investigators at the Bundeskriminalamt (BKI – the Federal Criminal Police Office) claim that the Russian-language Hydra...
Firefox 99 is out – no major bugs, but update anyway!
by Paul Ducklin The once-every-four-weeks security update to Mozilla’s Firefox browser officially arrived today. The regular version of Firefox is now 99.0, while the Extended Support Release, which gets security fixes without any feature updates, is now 91.8.0 ESR....
Google’s monthly Android updates patch numerous “get root” holes
by Paul Ducklin The good news in this month’s Android patches is that even though Google’s own updates close off numerous elevation of privilege (EoP) holes, there aren’t any remote code execution bugs on the list. The bad news, of course, is that EoP bugs that...
From TelePresence to Webex Room Panorama: A journey
This is a guest post by Cisco Communications Manager Karen Bruntz. When TelePresence was launched in 2006, the idea was to offer a meeting experience where people in two separate rooms could meet as if they were in the same space. Those rooms could be thousands...
Transforming business models with a circular economy mindset
This is a post by Katie Schindall, Director, Circular Economy. The World Economic Forum predicts the global population will produce 75 million metric tonnes of e-waste by 2030. This is the same weight as 25% of all cars in Europe, or 150 million grand pianos. ...
LAPSUS$ hacks continue despite two UK hacker suspects in court
by Paul Ducklin The infamous LAPSUS$ gang, whose curious brand of cyberextortion has been linked with intrusions at Microsoft, Samsung, Okta, Nvidia and others, still seems to be on the boil. According to Microsoft’s own analysis of the gang’s intrusion at Microsoft...
Quantum computers will crack your encryption—maybe they already have
Part of the job at Cisco® Talos® is not only to track current cyber threats but also predict ones that might crop up in the future. For Martin Lee, technical lead of security research within Talos, that means thinking about tomorrow’s technologies as well as...