Cybersecurity
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Multiple Czech Republic government websites were disrupted earlier this week due to a denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. The police force and Prague Airport websites were also disrupted as a result of the cyber attack. The sites were down for around two hours on Tuesday, October 24. The website of the Crimea Platform, an international summit taking […]
Hackers have earned roughly $350,000 in rewards after demonstrating successful exploits against a variety of devices on the second day of the Zero Day Initiative’s Pwn2Own Toronto 2023 competition. Just as on the first day of the hacking contest, NAS devices, printers, smart speakers, and mobile phones were hacked on Wednesday, with successful exploits also […]
PRESS RELEASE SHORT HILLS, N.J., Oct. 26, 2023 /PRNewswire/ — Cranium, the leading enterprise AI security and trust software firm, today announced that the company has raised $25 million in Series A funding. Telstra Ventures led the round with participation from KPMG LLP and SYN Ventures. Both participating investors previously provided seed funding when Cranium emerged from stealth six months ago and […]
Oct 27, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Vulnerability F5 has alerted customers of a critical security vulnerability impacting BIG-IP that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The issue, rooted in the configuration utility component, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-46747, and carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. “This vulnerability […]
Nigerian police have uncovered and shut down a cybercrime recruitment and training center in the country’s capital. A post on X (formerly Twitter) by the Nigerian Police Force (NPF) claimed that its National Cybercrime Center (NCCC) made six arrests after officers raided the hub in the Dantata Estate area of Abuja. “The investigation and operation […]
A group of pro-Ukraine hackers recently compromised the Spotify accounts of several well-known Russian musicians, swapping out their profile pictures for images of Ukraine’s flag and a Ukrainian rapper, along with messages to stop Russia’s war in Ukraine. The attacks, which began last week, targeted some of the most recognizable Russian artists who had previously […]
Dive Brief: Distributed denial of service attacks escalated during the third quarter, as a novel zero-day vulnerability led to a series of record-breaking attacks that continued into the month of October, according to a report released Thursday by Cloudflare. Exploits of the HTTP/2 Rapid Reset vulnerability led to record breaking incidents, as Cloudflare reported 89 […]
The government of Philadelphia said hackers spent at least three months inside city email systems, giving them wide access to health information stored in email accounts. The city did not respond to requests for comment about how many people were affected by the situation, but in a notice released on Friday officials said an unauthorized […]
Oct 27, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Vulnerability F5 has alerted customers of a critical security vulnerability impacting BIG-IP that could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The issue, rooted in the configuration utility component, has been assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2023-46747, and carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of a maximum of 10. “This vulnerability […]