Cybersecurity

CISA: Cisco and CrushFTP vulnerabilities are being actively exploited

The top U.S. cybersecurity agency is ordering all federal civilian agencies to patch three high-profile vulnerabilities in the next week because they are being exploited by hackers.  On Wednesday, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added two Cisco product vulnerabilities — CVE-2024-20353 and CVE-2024-20359 — as well as one vulnerability affecting popular file transfer […]

Cybersecurity

State-Sponsored Hackers Exploit Two Cisco Zero-Day Vulnerabilities for Espionage

Apr 25, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Zero-Day A new malware campaign leveraged two zero-day flaws in Cisco networking gear to deliver custom malware and facilitate covert data collection on target environments. Cisco Talos, which dubbed the activity ArcaneDoor, attributing it as the handiwork of a previously undocumented sophisticated state-sponsored actor it tracks under the name UAT4356 (aka […]

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Somehow This $10,000 Flame-Thrower Robot Dog Is Completely Legal in 48 States

If you’ve been wondering when you’ll be able to order the flame-throwing robot that Ohio-based Throwflame first announced last summer, that day has finally arrived. The Thermonator, what Throwflame bills as “the first-ever flamethrower-wielding robot dog” is now available for purchase. The price? $9,420. Thermonator is a quadruped robot with an ARC flamethrower mounted to […]

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How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 From 15 Billion Miles Away

Engineers have partially restored a 1970s-era computer on NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft after five months of long-distance troubleshooting, building confidence that humanity’s first interstellar probe can eventually resume normal operations. Several dozen scientists and engineers gathered Saturday in a conference room at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, or connected virtually, to wait for a new signal […]