CVE Program Stays Online as CISA Backs Temporary MITRE Extension
MITRE avoids CVE program shutdown with last-minute contract extension. Questions remain about long-term funding and the future of vulnerability tracking. MITRE’s role in managing the…
Author: Cybernoz
Misuse of the Word ‘Irony’
Irony is one word that has been getting massacred more and more lately–mostly because it’s become in-fashion to use it to appear intelligent. The way…
Bill extends cyber threat info-sharing between public, private sector
Two federal lawmakers today introduced a bi-partisan bill that preserves key regulation that facilitates the sharing of cyber-threat data between private companies and the federal…
New Windows TaskManager Vulnerabilities Allows Command Execution as SYSTEM User
Critical Windows TaskManager involving schtasks.exe binary, which could enable malicious actors to execute commands with SYSTEM-level privileges, bypassing User Account Control (UAC) prompts and erasing…
Beware! Online PDF Converters Tricking Users into Installing Password-Stealing Malware
CloudSEK’s Security Research team, a sophisticated cyberattack leveraging malicious online PDF converters has been demonstrated to target individuals and organizations globally. This attack, previously hinted…
Evolving Threat of Ransomware: From Extortion to Data Poisoning
Over the years, ransomware attacks have become a staple of cybercrime, primarily involving hackers encrypting critical databases and demanding a ransom in exchange for a…
Experts Uncover Four New Privilege Escalation Flaws in Windows Task Scheduler
Apr 16, 2025Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Vulnerability Cybersecurity researchers have detailed four different vulnerabilities in a core component of the Windows task scheduling service that…
Abstract/Distant Future Bias | Daniel Miessler
All of these bring each other more to mind: here, now, me, us; trend-deviating likely real local events; concrete, context-dependent, unstructured, detailed, goal-irrelevant incidental features;…
Server-Side Phishing Attacks Target Employee and Member Portals to Steal Login Credentials
Attackers have been deploying server-side phishing schemes to compromise employee and member login portals across various enterprises. This strategic shift to server-side operations is designed…
Google Introduces ‘Auto Restart’ Feature to Boost Android Device Security
Google, the global search giant and a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., is rolling out a new security feature dubbed “Auto Restart” to enhance data protection…
CVE Foundation pledges continuity after Mitre funding cut
In the wake of the abrupt termination of the Mitre contract to run CVE Programme, a group of vulnerability experts and members of Mitre’s existing…
A Bookmarklet That Displays HTTP Headers
I was looking for a Google Chrome extension that did something like Firefox’s Live HTTP Headers recently and tripped over this neat bookmarklet. It’s not…