May 2025

Europol Shuts Down Six DDoS-for-Hire Services Used in Global Attacks 2025-05-07 at 17:16 By Europol has announced the takedown of distributed denial of service (DDoS)-for-hire services that were used to launch thousands of cyber-attacks across the world. In connection with the operation, Polish authorities have arrested four individuals and the United States has seized nine

OttoKit WordPress Plugin with 100K+ Installs Hit by Exploits Targeting Multiple Flaws 2025-05-07 at 17:15 By A second security flaw impacting the OttoKit (formerly SureTriggers) WordPress plugin has come under active exploitation in the wild. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-27007 (CVSS score: 9.8), is a privilege escalation bug impacting all versions of the plugin prior

Human error and power glitches to blame for most outages 2025-05-07 at 16:41 By Dan Robinson Blackouts less frequent in 2024, still a PITA when the datacenter downtime demons visit Datacenter outages are less frequent and severe, but human error remains one of the most persistent challenges, with between two-thirds and four-fifths of major wobbles

Crypto miner deserts Pennsylvania site, fails to plug wells: Report 2025-05-07 at 16:12 By Cointelegraph by Amin Haqshanas Cryptocurrency miner Diversified Energy quietly vacated a natural gas-powered crypto mining site in Elk County, Pennsylvania, reportedly leaving behind unplugged wells and regulatory violations. The site, known as Longhorn Pad A, was revived in 2022 after sitting

REAL ID Enforcement in Effect — What Does This Mean for Biometric Data Security? 2025-05-07 at 16:12 By The REAL ID enforcement could have impacts on biometric data security and privacy.  This article is an excerpt from Subscribe to Security Magazine’s RSS Feed View Original Source

Microsoft updates the Windows 11 Start Menu 2025-05-07 at 15:45 By Richard Speed Plus it is solving the ‘I can’t find the settings’ problem with AI. That’s what you wanted, right? Microsoft has confirmed what some Windows Insiders are already noticing – the Windows 11 Start Menu is getting a revamp and a panel for

SysAid Patches 4 Critical Flaws Enabling Pre-Auth RCE in On-Premise Version 2025-05-07 at 14:50 By Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed multiple security flaw in the on-premise version of SysAid IT support software that could be exploited to achieve pre-authenticated remote code execution with elevated privileges. The vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2025-2775, CVE-2025-2776, and CVE-2025-2777, have all been

Reevaluating SSEs: A Technical Gap Analysis of Last-Mile Protection 2025-05-07 at 14:50 By Security Service Edge (SSE) platforms have become the go-to architecture for securing hybrid work and SaaS access. They promise centralized enforcement, simplified connectivity, and consistent policy control across users and devices. But there’s a problem: they stop short of where the most

NASA jettisons Neo4j database for Memgraph citing costs 2025-05-07 at 14:35 By Lindsay Clark It’s not rocket science, it’s budgeting NASA’s people analytics group has swapped its Neo4j graph database for Memgraph due to costs.… This article is an excerpt from The Register View Original Source

Bitcoin-backed loans ‘obvious’ next step — Xapo Bank CEO 2025-05-07 at 14:08 By Cointelegraph by Ezra Reguerra Bitcoin holders are becoming more comfortable borrowing against their crypto as market confidence grows, according to Seamus Rocca, the CEO of the Gibraltar-based private bank Xapo Bank.  In an interview at the Token2049 event in Dubai, Rocca told

Curl project founder snaps over deluge of time-sucking AI slop bug reports 2025-05-07 at 13:55 By Connor Jones Lead dev likens flood to ‘effectively being DDoSed’ Curl project founder Daniel Stenberg is fed up with of the deluge of AI-generated “slop” bug reports and recently introduced a checkbox to screen low-effort submissions that are draining