November 2024

Decades-Old Security Vulnerabilities Found in Ubuntu’s Needrestart Package 2024-11-20 at 11:48 By Multiple decade-old security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the needrestart package installed by default in Ubuntu Server (since version 21.04) that could allow a local attacker to gain root privileges without requiring user interaction. The Qualys Threat Research Unit (TRU), which identified and […]

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Study suggests X turned right just in time for election season 2024-11-20 at 10:50 By Connor Jones Significant uptick in visibility for Musk, Republican account posts from July 13 A pair of researchers say they’ve determined that July 13 was likely the day that X, formerly known as Twitter, made platform-level algorithm changes that increased

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China-Backed Hackers Leverage SIGTRAN, GSM Protocols to Infiltrate Telecom Networks 2024-11-20 at 09:39 By A new China-linked cyber espionage group has been attributed as behind a series of targeted cyber attacks targeting telecommunications entities in South Asia and Africa since at least 2020 with the goal of enabling intelligence collection. Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is tracking

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Data is the new uranium – incredibly powerful and amazingly dangerous 2024-11-20 at 09:17 By Mark Pesce CISOs are quietly wishing they had less data, because the cost of management sometimes exceeds its value I recently got to play a ‘fly on the wall’ at a roundtable of chief information security officers. Beyond the expected

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European Cloud Competition Observatory created to keep an eye on software licensing 2024-11-20 at 08:19 By Richard Speed Initiative follows Microsoft settlement with CISPE consortium Exclusive  The Cloud Infrastructure Services Providers in Europe (CISPE) consortium has launched the European Cloud Competition Observatory (ECCO) to keep an eye on software licensing practices in the sector.… This

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China wants mobile devices to limit usage time for minors, ensure they only see nice content 2024-11-20 at 07:48 By Laura Dobberstein Seeks grand alliance between device-makers, app developers and content providers. All in the name of socialism The Cyberspace Administration of China (CAC) last week released guidelines that suggest mobile devices be equipped with

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3 potential security risks to stay ahead of post-election 2024-11-20 at 07:16 By How prepared are security leaders to support their communities, customers and associates in this time of political transition? This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source React to this headline:

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Apple Releases Urgent Updates to Patch Actively Exploited Zero-Day Vulnerabilities 2024-11-20 at 07:16 By Apple has released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, visionOS, and its Safari web browser to address two zero-day flaws that have come under active exploitation in the wild. The flaws are listed below – CVE-2024-44308 – A vulnerability in JavaScriptCore

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Oracle Warns of Agile PLM Vulnerability Currently Under Active Exploitation 2024-11-20 at 07:16 By Oracle is warning that a high-severity security flaw impacting the Agile Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Framework has been exploited in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-21287 (CVSS score: 7.5), could be exploited sans authentication to leak sensitive information. “This vulnerability

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