The State Duma adopted a law on millions of fines for personal data leaks
The State Duma immediately adopted in the second and third readings a law providing for fines for leakage of personal data in the amount of up to 3% of the…
Hackers have found a way to disable Avast antivirus using its own driver
Cybersecurity researchers at Trellix have discovered that hackers have found a new way to disable antivirus programs on target systems through the use of a legitimate but old Avast driver.…
D-Link offered to eliminate the vulnerability of routers by purchasing a new device
D-Link has announced that several of its routers have a remote code execution vulnerability. The company is not going to do anything: these devices have reached the end of their…
AI helped Google identify 26 open source software vulnerabilities, including a twenty-year-old
Google has used artificial intelligence to identify 26 new vulnerabilities in open source projects, including a bug in OpenSSL that went undetected for two decades. The bug, dubbed CVE-2024-9143, was…
GrayKey tool learns to “partially” jailbreak iPhone 16 — but can’t handle beta versions of iOS 18
Documents have leaked online revealing the capabilities of the hacking tool GrayKey, used by US law enforcement agencies, capable of gaining access to iPhones up to the iPhone 16. However,…
Apple urgently closed two zero-day vulnerabilities in macOS, iOS and iPadOS
Apple has released emergency security updates for macOS, iOS and iPadOS, eliminating two critical zero-day vulnerabilities that were actively exploited by hackers. Security concerns surround WebKit and JavaScriptCore, key components…
Windows has a new recovery mode and other features that will prevent the CrowdStrike crash from happening again
After the devastating CrowdStrike outage in July this year, Microsoft promised to improve the situation, although it insisted that the event was more of a force majeure event. Today at…
Hackers attacked projects on GitHub in an attempt to frame a cybersecurity expert
Executives at artificial intelligence and machine learning startup Exo Labs reported that an unknown person tried to change the code of their project in the GitHub repository. Image source: charlesdeluvio…
Chinese hackers accused of large-scale attack on US telecommunications networks
T-Mobile’s network was among the systems hacked as part of a large-scale Chinese cyber espionage operation. The operation affected many US and international telecommunications companies, the Wall Street Journal (WSJ)…
The most popular passwords in the world have been revealed – most take less than a second to crack
Does anyone else use “123456” to secure access to their account? Sadly, this string of numbers still tops NordPass’s annual list of the most used passwords, earning it the title…