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Image: Dmitry Moraine A security researcher hunting for bug bounties discovered last month that a cryptocurrency-mining botnet had found a home and burrowed inside a web server operated by the US Department of Defense (DOD). The issue was discovered and reported via the DOD’s official bug bounty program by Indian security researcher Nitesh Surana. Initially, […] More
The Coalition for Better Ads (CBA), an industry group dedicated to improving the state of online ads, has announced today new rules for ads displayed with short-form videos (under eight minutes). Google, one of the CBA founding members, has also announced plans to implement the upcoming rules inside its products, such as the Chrome web […] More
Many years ago, I read about a grimoire from the Middle Ages that contained a spell for summoning rats, with the basics of the spell consisting of throwing straw and dirty laundry in the corner of a room. Considering the sanitary conditions of the time, it’s not hard to imagine that a pile of nesting […] More
[embedded content] Security researchers have disclosed today details about five vulnerabilities in the widely-deployed Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP). The vulnerabilities, identified by IoT cybersecurity firm Armis, have been collectively codenamed CDPwn. They impact CDP, a proprietary Cisco protocol that allows Cisco devices to share information between each other via multicast messages (sprayed inside a local […] More
Oh look. It’s a clock you can shout at. Amazon Everything that used to be hard can be made softer thanks to the wonderful invention of software. Some coding here, some coding there, and life will be so adorable that you’ll never have to take codeine again. That’s the whole point of the world-bettering Valley. […] More
Tens of thousands of Brazilian soccer fans have been exposed as a publicly-accessible cloud storage bucket leaked several gigabytes of data with sensitive information stretching back several years. The leaky S3 bucket, investigated exclusively by ZDNet in partnership with Brazilian cybersecurity news website The Hack, was owned by Futebol Card, an online ticketing company that […] More
Around half a million computers used by the NHS are still running the outdated Microsoft Windows 7 operating system, missing the government’s own target of upgrading all PCs and laptops by January this year. And the real figure could be even higher. Windows 10 Windows 7 went out of support in January, which means that […] More
UK small businesses have revealed that potential cyberattacks or malware infections cause more worry than staffing or cash flow issues, according to new research. SMBs may not be as well-known or prominent as today’s enterprise players, but this does not mean they are at less risk of being targeted either by determined threat actors or […] More
