Cybersecurity

U.S. and Microsoft Seize 107 Russian Domains in Major Cyber Fraud Crackdown

Microsoft and the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Thursday announced the seizure of 107 internet domains used by state-sponsored threat actors with ties to Russia to facilitate computer fraud and abuse in the country. “The Russian government ran this scheme to steal Americans’ sensitive information, using seemingly legitimate email accounts to trick victims into […]

Cybersecurity

How to Get Going with CTEM When You Don’t Know Where to Start

Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM) is a strategic framework that helps organizations continuously assess and manage cyber risk. It breaks down the complex task of managing security threats into five distinct stages: Scoping, Discovery, Prioritization, Validation, and Mobilization. Each of these stages plays a crucial role in identifying, addressing, and mitigating vulnerabilities –

Cybersecurity

Cloudflare Thwarts Largest-Ever 3.8 Tbps DDoS Attack Targeting Global Sectors

Cloudflare has disclosed that it mitigated a record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that peaked at 3.8 terabits per second (Tbps) and lasted 65 seconds. The web infrastructure and security company said it fended off “over one hundred hyper-volumetric L3/4 DDoS attacks throughout the month, with many exceeding 2 billion packets per second (Bpps) and 3 […]

DJing

Shik N32B v3 review

Customisation is the name of the game with this clever MIDI controller. Greg Scarth finds out what tricks the N32B has up its sleeve. Shik’s N32B v3 looks like the most simple MIDI controller you’ve ever seen. With 32 rotary knobs and a small LED segment display, this seems on the surface to be about […]

Cybersecurity

WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Security Flaw Exposes Sites to XSS Attacks

A new high-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that could enable malicious actors to execute arbitrary JavaScript code under certain conditions. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-47374 (CVSS score: 7.2), has been described as a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability impacting all versions of the plugin up to and […]

DJing

Pittsburgh Modular Voltage Lab 2 review

Pittsburgh’s new flagship synth condenses more than a decade of development into one immense package. Greg Scarth explores the power of this unique instrument. The new Pittsburgh Modular Voltage Lab 2 is the successor to the original Lifeforms Voltage Research Laboratory, released as a limited-edition run back in 2019. The VL2 is the Pennsylvania brand’s […]