Ubuntu Linux impacted by decade-old ‘needrestart’ flaw that gives root
Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities have been discovered in the needrestart utility used by Ubuntu Linux, which was introduced…
African Reliance on Foreign Suppliers Boosts Insecurity Concerns
Recent backdoor implants and cyber-espionage attacks on their supply chains have African organizations looking to diversify beyond Chinese, American tech…
ChatGPT Exposes Its Instructions, Knowledge & OS Files
According to Mozilla, users have a lot more power to manipulate ChatGPT than they might realize. OpenAI hopes those manipulations…
D-Link won’t fix critical bug in 60,000 exposed EoL modems
Tens of thousands of exposed D-Link routers that have reached their end-of-life are vulnerable to a critical security issue that…
iPhones now auto-restart to block access to encrypted data after long idle times
Apple has added a new security feature with the iOS 18.1 update released last month to ensure that iPhones automatically…
Microsoft investigates OneDrive issue causing macOS app freezes
Microsoft is investigating a newly acknowledged issue causing macOS applications to hang when opening or saving files in OneDrive. [...]
Malicious PyPI package with 37,000 downloads steals AWS keys
A malicious Python package named 'fabrice' has been present in the Python Package Index (PyPI) since 2021, stealing Amazon Web…
6 Infotainment Bugs Allow Mazdas to Be Hacked With USBs
Direct cyberattacks on vehicles are all but unheard of. In theory though, the opportunity is there to cause real damage…
North Korean hackers use new macOS malware against crypto firms
North Korean threat actor BlueNoroff has been targeting crypto-related businesses with a new multi-stage malware for macOS systems. [...]
Google fixes two Android zero-days used in targeted attacks
Google fixed two actively exploited Android zero-day flaws as part of its November security updates, addressing a total of 51…