Cybersecurity

Space and defense tech maker Exail Technologies exposes database access

Space and defense tech maker Exail Technologies exposes database access Pierluigi Paganini September 21, 2023 Exail Technologies, a high-tech manufacturer whose clients include the US Coast Guard, exposed sensitive company data that could’ve enabled attackers to access its databases. Exail, a French high-tech industrial group, left exposed a publicly accessible environment (.env) file with database […]

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Is AI the future of music? This is Emergent Drums: an AI-powered drum sampler plug-in – DJ TechTools

Audialab, the parent company behind Emergent Drums, has developed a new plug-in that uses state-of-the-art Artificial Intelligence to generate unique samples constantly. The program works much like any traditional software or hardware-sampled beat machine, featuring a 16-pad layout – which is notably ideal for hooking up a USB drum pad controller. Essentially, when you load the […]

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Apple Rushes to Patch 3 New Zero-Day Flaws: iOS, macOS, Safari, and More Vulnerable

Sep 22, 2023THNZero Day / Vulnerability Apple has released yet another round of security patches to address three actively exploited zero-day flaws impacting iOS, iPadOS, macOS, watchOS, and Safari, taking the total tally of zero-day bugs discovered in its software this year to 16. The list of security vulnerabilities is as follows – CVE-2023-41991 – […]

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Mysterious ‘Sandman’ Threat Actor Targets Telecom Providers Across Three Continents

Sep 21, 2023THNTelecom Security / Cyber Attack A previously undocumented threat actor dubbed Sandman has been attributed to a set of cyber attacks targeting telecommunic koation providers in the Middle East, Western Europe, and the South Asian subcontinent. Notably, the intrusions leverage a just-in-time (JIT) compiler for the Lua programming language known as LuaJIT as […]

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Police warn new Android malware scam can factory reset phones; over S$10 million lost in first half of 2023

SINGAPORE: The police on Wednesday (Sep 20) issued an advisory about a new variant of Android malware scams, where scammers would initiate a factory reset on infected devices after the malware executes unauthorised transactions on the phone’s i-banking app. There have been more than 750 cases of victims downloading the malware into their phones in the […]

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Cisco makes largest ever acquisition, buying cybersecurity company Splunk for $28 billion in cash

In this article CSCO SPLK Follow your favorite stocksCREATE FREE ACCOUNT Cisco is acquiring cybersecurity software company Splunk for $157 per share in a cash deal worth about $28 billion, the company said Thursday, in its largest acquisition ever. Splunk shares rose 21% after the announcement, while Cisco shares fell 4%. Splunk’s technology helps businesses […]

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Canada blames border checkpoint outages on cyberattack

A cyberattack suspected to be carried out by a pro-Russia hacking group reportedly resulted in widespread service disruptions at several Canadian airports. The Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) confirmed to Recorded Future News that the connectivity issues that affected check-in kiosks and electronic gates at airports last week are the result of a distributed denial […]

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Balancing budget and system security: Approaches to risk tolerance – Help Net Security

Data breaches are a dime a dozen. Although it’s easy to look at that statement negatively, the positive viewpoint is that, as a result, cybersecurity professionals have plenty of learning moments. Learning what went wrong and why can be a good sanity check for organizations that want to revisit their security readiness and up-level their […]