Europol reports that criminal groups are undermining the EU’s economy and its society, offering everything from murder-for-hire to kidnapping, torture and mutilation. From encrypting communications to fencing ill-gotten gains on…
Day: November 13, 2021
Security company faces backlash for waiting 12 months to disclose Palo Alto 0-day
There has been considerable debate within the cybersecurity community about Randori, a security firm that waited one year before disclosing a critical buffer overflow bug it discovered in Palo Alto…
RHEL 8.5 delivers key container improvements
RHEL 8.5, the newest version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), is out. As Joe Brockmeier, Red Hat Blogs’ Editorial Director, said, “Whether you’re deploying RHEL on-prem, in the public…
CISA warns of equipment vulnerabilities from multiple vendors
CISA has released a notice urging administrators to apply updates to a variety of industrial control systems after discovering vulnerabilities in multiple open-source and proprietary Object Management Group (OMG) Data-Distribution…
“King of Fraud” Gets Ten Years
“King of Fraud” Gets Ten Years A Russian cyber-criminal has been sent to prison in the United States for defrauding American companies out of millions of dollars. Aleksandr Zhukov ran…
UK Funds Project to Teach Autistic Children Cybersecurity Skills
UK Funds Project to Teach Autistic Children Cybersecurity Skills A program set up to teach cybersecurity skills to autistic and neurodiverse young people in the United Kingdom has received a…
Windows 10 Privilege-Escalation Zero-Day Gets an Unofficial Fix
Researchers warn that CVE-2021-34484 can be exploited with a patch bypass for a bug originally addressed in August by Microsoft. A partially unpatched security bug in Windows that could allow…
Flying Safe: How to Operate Drones Near Buildings and Other Structures
There are a lot of good reasons why uncrewed aerial vehicles (i.e., UAVs or drones) do not fly near, let alone contact, structures such as buildings, trees, or vehicles: it…