CISA tags SonicWall VPN flaw as actively exploited in attacks
On Wednesday, CISA warned federal agencies to secure their SonicWall Secure Mobile Access (SMA) 100 series appliances against attacks exploiting a high-severity remote code execution…
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Over 16,000 Fortinet devices compromised with symlink backdoor
Over 16,000 internet-exposed Fortinet devices have been detected as compromised with a new symlink backdoor that allows read-only access to sensitive files on previously compromised…
Google blocked over 5 billion ads in 2024 amid rise in AI-powered scams
Google blocked 5.1 billion ads and suspended more than 39.2 million advertiser accounts in 2024, according to its 2024 Ads Safety Report released this week. The company…
Apple fixes two zero-days exploited in targeted iPhone attacks
Apple released emergency security updates to patch two zero-day vulnerabilities that were used in an “extremely sophisticated attack” against specific targets’ iPhones. The two vulnerabilities…
Adversarial Exposure Validation Fixes That
Your security tools say everything’s fine, but attackers still get through. Despite years of investment in firewalls, endpoint protection, SIEMs, and other layered defenses, most…
Atlassian users experiencing degraded performance
Atlassian users are experiencing degraded performance amid an ‘active incident’ affecting multiple Jira products since morning hours today. Jira, Jira Service Management, Jira Work Management and Jira Product…
Google begins unifying search country domains to Google.com
Google has announced that it’s retiring separate country code top-level domain names for search, like google.co.uk or google.com.br, and unifying them under Google.com. Previously, Google…
CISA extends funding to ensure ‘no lapse in critical CVE services’
CISA says the U.S. government has extended funding to ensure no continuity issues with the critical Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) program. “The CVE Program…
Microsoft warns of blue screen crashes caused by April updates
Microsoft warned customers this week that their systems might crash with a blue screen error caused by a secure kernel fatal error after installing Windows…
Some devices offered Windows 11 upgrades despite Intune blocks
Microsoft is working to fix an ongoing issue causing some users’ Windows devices to be offered Windows 11 upgrades despite Intune policies preventing them. This…
MITRE warns that funding for critical CVE program expires today
MITRE Vice President Yosry Barsoum has warned that U.S. government funding for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) and Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) programs expires…
ChatGPT 4.1 early benchmarks compared against Google Gemini
ChatGPT 4.1 is now rolling out, and it’s a significant leap from GPT 4o, but it fails to beat the benchmark set by Google Gemini.…