Cybersecurity

Firefox Zero-Day Under Attack: Update Your Browser Immediately

Mozilla has revealed that a critical security flaw impacting Firefox and Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-9680, has been described as a use-after-free bug in the Animation timeline component. “An attacker was able to achieve code execution in the content process by exploiting […]

Cybersecurity

Google Joins Forces with GASA and DNS RF to Tackle Online Scams at Scale

Google on Wednesday announced a new partnership with the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA) and DNS Research Federation (DNS RF) to combat online scams. The initiative, which has been codenamed the Global Signal Exchange (GSE), is designed to create real-time insights into scams, fraud, and other forms of cybercrime pooling together threat signals from different data […]

Cybersecurity

Researchers Uncover Major Security Vulnerabilities in Industrial MMS Protocol Libraries

Details have emerged about multiple security vulnerabilities in two implementations of the Manufacturing Message Specification (MMS) protocol that, if successfully exploited, could have severe impacts in industrial environments. “The vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to crash an industrial device or in some cases, enable remote code execution,” Claroty researchers Mashav Sapir and Vera

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Beatport Streaming adds lossless audio ability to play FLAC files

The audiophiles asked – and Beatport answered. Beatport Streaming now has an option to play lossless FLAC files to subscribers of both the Beatport Streaming Professional plan and the Beatsource Streaming Pro+ plan. That means Beatport’s entire 12-million+-track library – along with Beatsource’s 7-million-strong gold mine – is now at your disposal to stream in high-quality, uncompressed, crystal […]

Cybersecurity

N. Korean Hackers Use Fake Interviews to Infect Developers with Cross-Platform Malware

Threat actors with ties to North Korea have been observed targeting job seekers in the tech industry to deliver updated versions of known malware families tracked as BeaverTail and InvisibleFerret. The activity cluster, tracked as CL-STA-0240, is part of a campaign dubbed Contagious Interview that Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 first disclosed in November 2023. […]

Cybersecurity

Social Media Accounts: The Weak Link in Organizational SaaS Security

Social media accounts help shape a brand’s identity and reputation. These public forums engage directly with customers as they are a hub to connect, share content and answer questions. However, despite the high profile role these accounts have, many organizations overlook social media account security. Many lack the safeguards to prevent unauthorized access — a […]