Latest Adblock update causes massive YouTube performance hit
Adblock and Adblock Plus users report performance issues on YouTube, initially blamed on Google but later determined to be an issue in the popular ad-blocking…
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Save up to $315 on data privacy tools with AdGuard VPN
A virtual private network (VPN) is a foundational data privacy tool for both professional life and your day-to-day browsing. AdGuard VPN offers one-year, three-year, and…
Frequent Android auto-reboots block firmware exploits
The GrapheneOS team behind the privacy and security-focused Android-based operating system with the same name is suggesting that Android should introduce an auto-reboot feature to make exploitation of firmware…
The new Windows 11 features coming in 2024
Windows 11 is gearing up to introduce an array of exciting new features in 2024 aimed at enhancing user experience across various aspects of the…
Hacker spins up 1 million virtual servers to illegally mine crypto
A 29-year-old man in Ukraine was arrested this week for using hacked accounts to create 1 million virtual servers used to mine $2 million in…
The Week in Ransomware – January 12th 2024
Mortgage lenders and related companies are becoming popular targets of ransomware gangs, with four companies in this sector recently attacked. This week, we learned that…
GitLab warns of critical zero-click account hijacking vulnerability
GitLab has released security updates for both the Community and Enterprise Edition to address two critical vulnerabilities, one of them allowing account hijacking with no…
Critical Microsoft SharePoint bug now actively exploited
CISA warns that attackers are now exploiting a critical Microsoft SharePoint privilege escalation vulnerability that can be chained with another critical bug for remote code…
Juniper warns of critical RCE bug in its firewalls and switches
Juniper Networks has released security updates to fix a critical pre-auth remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability in its SRX Series firewalls and EX Series switches.…
Ivanti Connect Secure zero-days exploited to deploy custom malware
Hackers have been exploiting the two zero-day vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure disclosed this week since early December to deploy multiple families of custom malware for…
Microsoft shares script to update Windows 10 WinRE with BitLocker fixes
Microsoft has released a PowerShell script to automate updating the Windows Recovery Environment (WinRE) partition in order to fix CVE-2024-20666, a vulnerability that allowed for…
Over 150k WordPress sites at takeover risk via vulnerable plugin
Two vulnerabilities impacting the POST SMTP Mailer WordPress plugin, an email delivery tool used by 300,000 websites, could help attackers take complete control of a site authentication.…