Tag: computer
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Apple warns customers targeted in recent spyware attacks
Apple warned customers last week that their devices were targeted in a new series of spyware attacks, according to the French national Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-FR). First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/apple-warns-customers-targeted-in-recent-spyware-attacks/
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Panama Ministry of Economy discloses breach claimed by INC ransomware
Panama’s Ministry of Economy and Finance (MEF) has disclosed that one of its computers may have been compromised in a cyberattack.. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/panama-ministry-of-economy-discloses-breach-claimed-by-inc-ransomware/
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Microsoft under fire: Senator demands FTC investigation into ‘arsonist selling firefighting services’
Tags: access, attack, authentication, breach, business, cio, ciso, computer, corporate, cyber, cybersecurity, email, encryption, finance, government, hacker, mfa, microsoft, network, password, ransomware, service, software, technology, threat, updateThe technical reality behind the failures: Security experts have long criticized Microsoft’s reliance on outdated encryption standards. “RC4 should have been retired long ago, yet it still lurks in Active Directory and continues to enable attacks like Kerberoasting,” Gogia noted.Microsoft’s justification centered on backward compatibility concerns. “Microsoft’s line has been that switching it off overnight…
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Default Cursor setting can be exploited to run malicious code on developers’ machines
An out-of-the-box setting in Cursor, a popular AI source-code editor, could be leveraged by attackers to covertly run malicious code on users’ computers, researchers … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/09/11/cursor-ai-editor-vulnerability/
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Feds seek to claim $5 million in bitcoin taken in SIM swaps
The Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) is pursuing funds taken from five victims between late October 2022 and March 2023, according to a news release. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/us-seeks-5-million-bitcoin-taken-in-sim-swaps
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Quantum Computing Threat Forces Crypto Revolution in 2025
The world of cybersecurity has spent decades building digital fortresses with mathematical locks that felt unbreakable. Quantum computing is rewriting the rules. The emergence of quantum computing presents a critical threat to classical cryptographic systems. It endangers the security of current digital communication frameworks. Most experts now believe a cryptographically relevant quantum computer will likely…
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When AI nukes your database: The dark side of vibe coding
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, ciso, computer, control, corporate, data, data-breach, defense, dos, email, flaw, governance, incident response, injection, jobs, LLM, microsoft, open-source, password, risk, saas, skills, supply-chain, threat, tool, training, zero-trustprivate paths, on another instance.Worthington warns this is one of the most frequent red flags in threat intel. When vibe-coded applications reach incident response, she says, “You’ll often see absence of logging, lack of source control, or weak authentication alongside hardcoded secrets. Rather than a single fingerprint, it’s a collection of sloppy behaviors that point…
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When AI nukes your database: The dark side of vibe coding
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, ciso, computer, control, corporate, data, data-breach, defense, dos, email, flaw, governance, incident response, injection, jobs, LLM, microsoft, open-source, password, risk, saas, skills, supply-chain, threat, tool, training, zero-trustprivate paths, on another instance.Worthington warns this is one of the most frequent red flags in threat intel. When vibe-coded applications reach incident response, she says, “You’ll often see absence of logging, lack of source control, or weak authentication alongside hardcoded secrets. Rather than a single fingerprint, it’s a collection of sloppy behaviors that point…
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When AI nukes your database: The dark side of vibe coding
Tags: ai, application-security, attack, authentication, automation, ciso, computer, control, corporate, data, data-breach, defense, dos, email, flaw, governance, incident response, injection, jobs, LLM, microsoft, open-source, password, risk, saas, skills, supply-chain, threat, tool, training, zero-trustprivate paths, on another instance.Worthington warns this is one of the most frequent red flags in threat intel. When vibe-coded applications reach incident response, she says, “You’ll often see absence of logging, lack of source control, or weak authentication alongside hardcoded secrets. Rather than a single fingerprint, it’s a collection of sloppy behaviors that point…
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What Is the Turning Test? Hassan Taher Decodes the Turing Test’s Relevance in Modern AI
The Turing Test measures machine intelligence by assessing whether an AI can engage in conversations indistinguishable from those of a human. Conceptualized by Alan Turing in 1950, the Turing Test originally qualified a computer’s capacity for human-like intelligence by its ability to imitate human-like responses and reasoning in natural language dialogue. Yet as large language…
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Cybersecurity Snapshot: Expert Advice for Securing Critical Infrastructure’s OT and Industrial Control Systems, IoT Devices and Network Infrastructure
Tags: access, advisory, apt, attack, authentication, breach, china, cisa, cisco, cloud, compliance, computer, computing, control, credentials, cryptography, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, data, defense, detection, espionage, exploit, firmware, framework, google, government, guide, hacker, Hardware, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iot, login, mfa, military, mitigation, monitoring, network, nist, organized, password, phishing, ransomware, regulation, risk, russia, sans, service, software, technology, theft, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-trustDestructive cyber attacks against critical infrastructure have unfortunately become increasingly frequent. Just last week, multinational government agencies blared the alarm about a global cyber espionage campaign targeting critical infrastructure networks. With this type of cyber threat in the spotlight, we’re rounding up recent cyber advice for securing critical infrastructure. In case you missed it, here…
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Der Post-Quantum-Datenschutz-Gau passiert schon heute
Tags: computerViele warten mit Datenschutzmaßnahmen für die Quanten-Computer-Ära, bis es so weit ist. Doch was ist, wenn die verheerendsten Datenschutzverletzungen bereits heute und damit Pre-Quantum passieren? Die Widersprüchlichkeit in den Prognosen zur Einsatzfähigkeit von Quantencomputern ist ein historisches Merkmal von disruptiven Technologien. Die einen sprechen von baldigen ersten Ergebnissen, die anderen von einem Zeithorizont von 15…
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CISSP certification: Requirements, training, exam, and cost
Tags: access, business, china, ciso, cloud, computer, credentials, cybersecurity, government, guide, infosec, jobs, linkedin, network, risk, risk-management, skills, trainingWho should get a CISSP?: CISSP has been called the “gold standard” of security certifications. “From the hiring side, the CISSP remains one of the most valued certifications I look for,” says Ankit Gupta, Senior Security Engineer at Exeter Finance. “It shows a candidate has a firm grasp of security principles across multiple domains, and…
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1965 Cryptanalysis Training Workbook Released by the NSA
In the early 1960s, National Security Agency cryptanalyst and cryptanalysis instructor Lambros D. Callimahos coined the term “Stethoscope” to describe a diagnostic computer program used to unravel the internal structure of pre-computer ciphertexts. The term appears in the newly declassified September 1965 document Cryptanalytic Diagnosis with the Aid of a Computer, which compiled 147 listings…
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Quantum Is Closer Than You Think”, So Why Are You Still Encrypting Like It’s 2015?
Tags: access, ai, business, cloud, communications, compliance, computer, computing, container, crypto, cryptography, data, defense, encryption, endpoint, exploit, government, guide, Hardware, infrastructure, network, nist, privacy, regulation, resilience, risk, risk-assessment, service, software, strategy, technology, threat, tool, update, vulnerabilityQuantum Is Closer Than You Think”, So Why Are You Still Encrypting Like It’s 2015? madhav Tue, 09/02/2025 – 05:43 Not long ago, the idea that quantum computers could one day break today’s strongest encryption felt like science fiction. Today, it’s no longer about if”, but when. While real-world demonstrations of quantum algorithms like Shor’s…
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Angriffe auf npm-Lieferkette gefährden Entwicklungsumgebungen
Tags: ai, api, browser, bug, chrome, cloud, computer, control, cyberattack, data-breach, github, malware, software, supply-chain, toolAngriffe auf das NX-Build-System und React-Pakete zeigen, dass die Bedrohungen für Softwareentwicklung in Unternehmen immer größer werden.Ein ausgeklügelter Supply-Chain-Angriff hat das weit verbreitete Entwickler-Tool Nx-Build-System-Paket kompromittiert, das über den Node Package Manager (npm) installiert und verwendet wird. Dadurch wurden zahlreiche Anmeldedaten von Entwicklern offengelegt. Laut einem neuen Bericht des Sicherheitsunternehmens Wiz wurden bei dieser Kampagne…
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Angriffe auf npm-Lieferkette gefährden Entwicklungsumgebungen
Tags: ai, api, browser, bug, chrome, cloud, computer, control, cyberattack, data-breach, github, malware, software, supply-chain, toolAngriffe auf das NX-Build-System und React-Pakete zeigen, dass die Bedrohungen für Softwareentwicklung in Unternehmen immer größer werden.Ein ausgeklügelter Supply-Chain-Angriff hat das weit verbreitete Entwickler-Tool Nx-Build-System-Paket kompromittiert, das über den Node Package Manager (npm) installiert und verwendet wird. Dadurch wurden zahlreiche Anmeldedaten von Entwicklern offengelegt. Laut einem neuen Bericht des Sicherheitsunternehmens Wiz wurden bei dieser Kampagne…
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Bei Digital-Produkten auch auf Ausfallrisiken achten
Das BSI empfiehlt Nutzern von digitalen Produkten darauf zu achten, wie der Hersteller mit Sicherheitsrisiken umgeht.Das Bundesamt für Sicherheit in der Informationstechnik (BSI) rät bei der Auswahl digitaler Produkte darauf zu achten, ob es Ausfallrisiken gibt. Eine Sprecherin der Behörde sagte der Deutschen Presse-Agentur auf die Frage, worauf Nutzer bei der Auswahl von Online-Bezahlsystemen achten…
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Cybercrime increasingly moving beyond financial gains
Tags: attack, awareness, business, ciso, computer, corporate, cyber, cyberattack, cybercrime, cybersecurity, defense, disinformation, espionage, finance, government, group, hacker, hacking, incident response, infrastructure, intelligence, iran, malicious, military, network, ransom, ransomware, risk, risk-analysis, russia, strategy, theft, threat, tool, ukraine, vulnerability, wormsrcset=”https://b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?quality=50&strip=all 892w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=223%2C300&quality=50&strip=all 223w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=768%2C1033&quality=50&strip=all 768w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=761%2C1024&quality=50&strip=all 761w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=518%2C697&quality=50&strip=all 518w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=125%2C168&quality=50&strip=all 125w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=62%2C84&quality=50&strip=all 62w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=357%2C480&quality=50&strip=all 357w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=268%2C360&quality=50&strip=all 268w, b2b-contenthub.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/Patricia-Alonso.png?resize=186%2C250&quality=50&strip=all 186w” width=”761″ height=”1024″ sizes=”auto, (max-width: 761px) 100vw, 761px”> Incibe. En la imagen, Patricia Alonso GarcÃa.”We are very redundant when talking about cybercrime, because we always associate it with economic motivations,” says Hervé Lambert, global consumer operations…
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Wie programmiert man einen Computer, den es noch gar nicht gibt?
Schon heute gibt es erste Programmiersprachen für Quantencomputer, zum Beispiel Qiskit oder Q#. ‘Sie sind sehr nah an der Hardware ähnlich wie die frühen Computersprachen”, sagt Eichhorn. Das heißt: Wer damit arbeitet, muss genau verstehen, wie ein Quantencomputer im Inneren rechnet. First seen on infopoint-security.de Jump to article: www.infopoint-security.de/wie-programmiert-man-einen-computer-den-es-noch-gar-nicht-gibt/a41844/
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CCSP certification: Exam, cost, requirements, training, salary
Tags: access, application-security, best-practice, china, cloud, compliance, computer, credentials, cybersecurity, data, governance, infosec, infrastructure, jobs, risk, skills, training, usaCCSP vs. CISSP: ISC2 also offers the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) certification aimed at upper-level security pros with industry experience. The biggest difference between these two certifications is that the CISSP exam draws from a much broader and more general pool of security knowledge, as it is meant to show that you can design,…
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TDL001 – Cybersecurity Explained: Privacy, Threats, and the Future – Chester Wisniewski
Tags: access, ai, attack, backdoor, breach, business, ciso, computer, country, crime, crimes, cyber, cybercrime, cybersecurity, data-breach, defense, detection, edr, email, finance, firewall, gartner, government, guide, hacker, hacking, Hardware, infosec, Internet, jobs, linkedin, mail, malicious, microsoft, military, monitoring, network, password, phishing, phone, privacy, programming, ransomware, risk, russia, scam, skills, software, sophos, spam, sql, strategy, switch, technology, threat, update, virus, vulnerability, wifi, windowsSummary “The Defenders Log” Episode 1 features host David Redekop and guest Chet Wisniewski discussing the dynamic world of cybersecurity. Wisniewski, with decades of experience, traces his journey from early BBS and phone network exploration to becoming a cybersecurity expert. They delve into the evolution of hacking, the emergence of profitable cybercrime like email spam,…
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TDL003 – Breaking Barriers: IPv6 Adoption and DNS Transformation with Tommy Jensen
Tags: access, ai, apple, attack, backup, banking, browser, business, ceo, chrome, ciso, compliance, computer, computing, control, country, credentials, cybersecurity, data, data-breach, ddos, dns, encryption, endpoint, google, government, group, international, Internet, jobs, law, microsoft, mobile, network, phishing, phone, privacy, programming, radius, risk, service, smishing, strategy, switch, technology, threat, update, vpn, windows, zero-trustSummary This episode of the Defender’s Log features special guest Tommy Jensen, an internet technologist specializing in IPv6, Zero Trust, and standards. Jensen’s career path, from an AppleCare contractor to a key figure in advancing internet technologies, is explored. The discussion highlights the critical importance and challenges of migrating to IPv6 and the necessity of…
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Rowhammer attack can backdoor AI models with one devastating bit flip
Servers with DDR3 memory modules (demonstrated on 16GB Samsung DDR3)Workstations with DDR4 memory (demonstrated on 8GB Hynix DDR4)AI inference servers running popular models such as ResNet, VGG, and Vision TransformersEdge computing devices with vulnerable DRAM hosting neural networksCloud platforms using DDR3/DDR4 memory for AI model deploymentResearch computing systems running full-precision (32-bit floating-point) modelsMulti-tenant GPU servers…
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Chinese national who sabotaged Ohio company’s systems handed four-year jail stint
A Houston resident was sentenced to four years in prison for intentionally installing malicious code on his employer’s computer systems, which he activated when his role was terminated. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/chinese-national-sentenced-prison
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Ex-Developer Jailed Four Years for Sabotaging Ohio Employer with Kill-Switch Malware
A 55-year-old Chinese national has been sentenced to four years in prison and three years of supervised release for sabotaging his former employer’s network with custom malware and deploying a kill switch that locked out employees when his account was disabled.Davis Lu, 55, of Houston, Texas, was convicted of causing intentional damage to protected computers…