Highline Public Schools closes schools following cyberattack
Highline Public Schools, a K-12 district in Washington state, has shut down all schools and canceled school activities after its technology systems were compromised in…
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Payment gateway data breach affects 1.7 million credit card owners
Payment gateway provider Slim CD has disclosed a data breach that compromised credit card and personal data belonging to almost 1.7 million individuals. In the…
Meta fixes easily bypassed WhatsApp ‘View Once’ privacy feature
A privacy flaw in WhatsApp, an instant messenger with over 2 billion users worldwide, is being exploited by attackers to bypass the app’s “View once”…
Progress LoadMaster vulnerable to 10/10 severity RCE flaw
Progress Software has issued an emergency fix for a maximum (10/10) severity vulnerability impacting its LoadMaster and LoadMaster Multi-Tenant (MT) Hypervisor products that allows attackers…
New RAMBO attack steals data using RAM in air-gapped computers
A novel side-channel attack dubbed “RAMBO” (Radiation of Air-gapped Memory Bus for Offense) generates electromagnetic radiation from a device’s RAM to send data from air-gapped computers.…
Sextortion scam now use your “cheating” spouse’s name as a lure
A new variant of the ongoing sextortion email scams is now targeting spouses, saying that their husband or wife is cheating on them, with links…
Transport for London staff faces systems disruptions after cyberattack
Transport for London, the city’s public transportation agency, revealed today that its staff has limited access to systems and email due to measures implemented in response…
Car rental giant Avis discloses data breach impacting customers
Image: MidjourneyAmerican car rental giant Avis notified customers that unknown attackers breached one of its business applications last month and stole some of their personal…
Microsoft Office 2024 to disable ActiveX controls by default
After Office 2024 launches in October, Microsoft will disable ActiveX controls by default in Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Visio client apps. ActiveX is a legacy…
SpyAgent Android malware steals your crypto recovery phrases from images
A new Android malware named SpyAgent uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from screenshots stored on the mobile device.…
SonicWall SSLVPN access control flaw is now exploited in attacks
SonicWall is warning that a recently fixed access control flaw tracked as CVE-2024-40766 in SonicOS is now “potentially” exploited in attacks, urging admins to apply patches…
Apache fixes critical OFBiz remote code execution vulnerability
Apache has fixed a critical security vulnerability in its open-source OFBiz (Open For Business) software, which could allow attackers to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable…