Stratascale, an SHI company, announced the acquisition of Vector0, an Attack Surface Management (ASM) provider. Through the acquisition, Stratascale professionals and their customers gain visibility of attack vectors and points of vulnerability, enhancing Stratascale’s ability to deliver proactive cybersecurity services. “Vector0 enables us to offer a comprehensive and proactive approach to Attack Surface Validation (ASV), […]
A cryptocurrency business based in Hong Kong announced on Monday that hackers had stolen around $200 million of its assets after attacking its cloud service provider. Mixin, which describes itself as building “open source software that always puts security, privacy and decentralization first” announced the incident in a social media post. The company said that […]
Canada’s largest airline announced a data breach this week that involved the information of employees, but said its operations and customer data was not impacted. Air Canada, one of the world’s oldest airlines running more than 1,300 flights a day, released a statement on Wednesday explaining a recent data breach. The company did not respond […]
Atlassian this week announced patches for four high-severity vulnerabilities impacting its Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo products. Tracked as CVE-2023-22513 (CVSS score of 8.5), the most severe of these issues is described as a remote code execution (RCE) bug in Bitbucket that could impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability. An authenticated attacker can exploit the flaw […]
The Eurorack synth combines FM sound generation with analogue filters. [embedded content] Originally announced at the Superbooth trade show way back in 2021, the Jomox Mod FM has been a long time coming. Packaged as a Eurorack module but effectively an instrument in its own right, the Mod FM is an eight-voice FM synth with […]
Sep 20, 2023THNCyber Crime / Dark Web Finnish law enforcement authorities have announced the takedown of PIILOPUOTI, a dark web marketplace that specialized in illegal narcotics trade since May 2022. “The site operated as a hidden service in the encrypted TOR network,” the Finnish Customs (aka Tulli) said in a brief announcement on Tuesday. “The […]
The new MK3 models feature polyphonic aftertouch. [embedded content] Native Instruments have announced updates to its Komplete Kontrol S range of MIDI keyboards. The MK3 model features a number of major upgrades and a new design, but the biggest news is the introduction of polyphonic aftertouch, a rare and highly sought after feature found on […]
Sep 20, 2023THNEncryption / Privacy Encrypted messaging app Signal has announced an update to the Signal Protocol to add support for quantum resistance by upgrading the Extended Triple Diffie-Hellman (X3DH) specification to Post-Quantum Extended Diffie-Hellman (PQXDH). “With this upgrade, we are adding a layer of protection against the threat of a quantum computer being built […]
The U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has announced it is offering free security scans for critical infrastructure facilities, such as water utilities, to help protect these crucial units from hacker attacks.