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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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 […]