Tag: Internet
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Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis
Internet monitoring firms and experts say Iran’s internet has almost completely shut down, as protests spread through major cities. First seen on techcrunch.com Jump to article: techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/internet-collapses-in-iran-amid-protests-over-economic-crisis/
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Microsoft Exchange Online outage blocks access to mailboxes via IMAP4
Microsoft is working to fix an Exchange Online service outage that intermittently prevents users from accessing their mailboxes via the Internet Mailbox Access Protocol 4 (IMAP4). First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-exchange-online-outage-blocks-access-to-mailboxes-via-imap4/
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ThreatsDay Bulletin: RustFS Flaw, Iranian Ops, WebUI RCE, Cloud Leaks, and 12 More Stories
The internet never stays quiet. Every week, new hacks, scams, and security problems show up somewhere.This week’s stories show how fast attackers change their tricks, how small mistakes turn into big risks, and how the same old tools keep finding new ways to break in.Read on to catch up before the next wave hits. Honeypot…
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Global GoBruteforcer Botnet Campaign Threatens 50,000 Linux Servers
A sophisticated modular botnet known as GoBruteforcer is actively targeting Linux servers worldwide, with researchers estimating that more than 50,000 internet-facing servers remain vulnerable to these coordinated attacks. The threat, which has evolved significantly since its initial discovery in 2023, poses a growing danger to organizations that rely on exposed database and file-transfer services.”‹ GoBruteforcer,…
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Humongous 52-inch Dell monitor will make you feel like king of the internet with four screens in one
Tags: InternetAlso: The XPS brand is back First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2026/01/06/dell_52inch_monitor_four_screens_in_one/
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NDSS 2025 A Multifaceted Study On The Use of TLS And Auto-detect In Email Ecosystems
Session 8A: Email Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Ka Fun Tang (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Che Wei Tu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Sui Ling Angela Mak (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Sze Yiu Chau (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) PAPER A Multifaceted Study on the Use of TLS and…
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Illinois state agency exposed personal data of 700,000 people
The Illinois Department of Human Services exposed personal information belonging to more than 700,000 state residents after inadvertently posting the data on the open internet where it remained for as long as four years before being taken down in September. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/illinois-agency-exposed-data
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NDSS 2025 Automatic Insecurity: Exploring Email Auto-configuration In The Wild
Tags: attack, conference, credentials, cyber, email, Internet, network, technology, threat, vulnerabilitySession 8A: Email Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Shushang Wen (School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China), Yiming Zhang (Tsinghua University), Yuxiang Shen (School of Cyber Science and Technology, University of Science and Technology of China), Bingyu Li (School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University), Haixin Duan (Tsinghua…
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Grok Is Pushing AI ‘Undressing’ Mainstream
Paid tools that “strip” clothes from photos have been available on the darker corners of the internet for years. Elon Musk’s X is now removing barriers to entry”, and making the results public. First seen on wired.com Jump to article: www.wired.com/story/grok-is-pushing-ai-undressing-mainstream/
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NDSS 2025 HADES Attack: Understanding And Evaluating Manipulation Risks Of Email Blocklists
Tags: attack, conference, dns, email, exploit, infrastructure, Internet, malicious, mitigation, network, risk, service, spam, technologySession 8A: Email Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Ruixuan Li (Tsinghua University), Chaoyi Lu (Tsinghua University), Baojun Liu (Tsinghua University;Zhongguancun Laboratory), Yunyi Zhang (Tsinghua University), Geng Hong (Fudan University), Haixin Duan (Tsinghua University;Zhongguancun Laboratory), Yanzhong Lin (Coremail Technology Co. Ltd), Qingfeng Pan (Coremail Technology Co. Ltd), Min Yang (Fudan University), Jun Shao (Zhejiang Gongshang University)…
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NDSS 2025 Exploiting the Complexity Of Modern CSS For Email And Browser Fingerprinting
Session 8A: Email Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Leon Trampert (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Daniel Weber (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Lukas Gerlach (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Christian Rossow (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Michael Schwarz (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security) PAPER Cascading Spy Sheets: Exploiting the Complexity…
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Google Security Safety: Why Cloud Monitor is Worth the Investment at Morgan Local Schools
How an Ohio district uses Cloud Monitor to gain visibility, prevent risk, and stay prepared in Google Workspace Morgan Local Schools is located in rural McConnelsville, Ohio, serving about 1,600 students and 250 staff. With limited home internet access throughout the community, the district relies heavily on shared device carts and Google Workspace to keep…
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AI, voting machine conspiracies fill information vacuum around Venezuela operation
After the U.S. capture of Nicholas Maduro, fake AI-driven media quickly flooded the internet, while Trump allies revived debunked theories of rigged voting machines. First seen on cyberscoop.com Jump to article: cyberscoop.com/ai-voting-machine-conspiracies-fill-information-vacuum-venezuela-raid/
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Why Arbor Edge Defense and CDN-Based DDoS protection are better together
Tags: ai, attack, botnet, cloud, control, data, ddos, defense, firewall, infrastructure, intelligence, Internet, mitigation, network, router, threat, vulnerabilityLow-volume, stealthy application-layer attacksTransmission Control Protocol (TCP) state exhaustion attacksOutbound threats from compromised internal hostsAttacks that bypass CDN routing (for example, direct-to-IP attacks)These gaps leave critical infrastructure vulnerable, especially when attackers use dynamic, multivector techniques designed to evade upstream defenses. Arbor Edge Defense: The first and last line of defense: NETSCOUT’s AED is uniquely positioned…
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5 myths about DDoS attacks and protection
Myth 2: DDoS attacks only involve flooding networks with large amounts of traffic.: In the early days of DDoS, the vast majority of attacks were large traffic floods. However, DDoS attacks have evolved over time, becoming more surgically targeted and complex. The media continues to report on the largest, most shocking attacks that are terabits…
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NDSS 2025 ProbeNot: Protecting Pre-trained Encoders From Malicious Probing
Session 7D: ML Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Ruyi Ding (Northeastern University), Tong Zhou (Northeastern University), Lili Su (Northeastern University), Aidong Adam Ding (Northeastern University), Xiaolin Xu (Northeastern University), Yunsi Fei (Northeastern University) PAPER Probe-Me-Not: Protecting Pre-Trained Encoders From Malicious Probing Adapting pre-trained deep learning models to customized tasks has become a popular choice for…
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Kimwolf Botnet Exploits 2 Million Devices to Build a Global Proxy Infrastructure
A massive new botnet dubbed >>Kimwolf
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Was bei der Cloud-Konfiguration schiefläuft und wie es besser geht
Tags: access, ai, authentication, breach, cloud, cyberattack, cybersecurity, cyersecurity, data-breach, infrastructure, Internet, least-privilege, mfa, monitoring, risk, saas, service, tool, usa, zero-trustFehlerhaft konfigurierte Cloud-Dienste sorgen regelmäßig für Datenlecks und schlimmeres.Konfigurationsfehler in der Cloud, die Unternehmensdaten gefährden, sind nicht unbedingt etwas Neues eher im Gegenteil. Umso schlimmer, dass Unternehmen ihre Cloud-Ressourcen immer noch nicht durchgängig absichern. Zumindest legt das ein aktueller Report nahe. Dafür hat der Cloud-Sicherheitsanbieter Qualys 101 Cybersecurity- und IT-Profis befragt, zu deren Aufgaben es…
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NDSS 2025 A New PPML Paradigm For Quantized Models
Session 7D: ML Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Tianpei Lu (The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University), Bingsheng Zhang (The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University), Xiaoyuan Zhang (The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain and Data Security, Zhejiang University), Kui Ren (The State Key Laboratory of Blockchain…
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What is happening to the Internet in Venezuela? Did the U.S. use cyber capabilities?
In light of the tragic events that have occurred in Venezuela, what is happening to the Internet in the country, and how are users accessing it? Yesterday, the United States launched a >>large scale strike
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Finnish Authorities Detain Crew After Undersea Internet Cable Severed
Tags: InternetAfter a sudden internet cable break between Finland and Estonia, authorities have seized the cargo ship Fitburg. With two crew members arrested and sanctioned steel found on board, investigators are now probing if this was an accident or a deliberate act of hybrid warfare. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/finnish-detain-crew-undersea-internet-cable/
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NDSS 2025 DLBox: New Model Training Framework For Protecting Training Data
Session 7D: ML Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Jaewon Hur (Seoul National University), Juheon Yi (Nokia Bell Labs, Cambridge, UK), Cheolwoo Myung (Seoul National University), Sangyun Kim (Seoul National University), Youngki Lee (Seoul National University), Byoungyoung Lee (Seoul National University) PAPER DLBox: New Model Training Framework For Protecting Training Data Sharing training data for deep…
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NDSS 2025 Understanding Data Importance In Machine Learning Attacks
Session 7D: ML Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Rui Wen (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Michael Backes (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security), Yang Zhang (CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security) PAPER Understanding Data Importance in Machine Learning Attacks: Does Valuable Data Pose Greater Harm? Machine learning has revolutionized numerous domains, playing a crucial…
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NDSS 2025 AlphaDog: No-Box Camouflage Attacks Via Alpha Channel Oversight
Session 7D: ML Security Authors, Creators & Presenters: Qi Xia (University of Texas at San Antonio), Qian Chen (University of Texas at San Antonio) PAPER AlphaDog: No-Box Camouflage Attacks via Alpha Channel Oversight Traditional black-box adversarial attacks on computer vision models face significant limitations, including intensive querying requirements, time-consuming iterative processes, a lack of universality,…
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Over 10K Fortinet firewalls exposed to actively exploited 2FA bypass
Tags: 2fa, attack, authentication, data-breach, exploit, firewall, fortinet, Internet, mfa, vulnerabilityOver 10,000 Internet-exposed Fortinet firewalls are still vulnerable to attacks exploiting a five-year-old two-factor authentication (2FA) bypass vulnerability. First seen on bleepingcomputer.com Jump to article: www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/over-10-000-fortinet-firewalls-exposed-to-ongoing-2fa-bypass-attacks/
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RondoDox Botnet Exploits Critical React2Shell Flaw to Hijack IoT Devices and Web Servers
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a persistent nine-month-long campaign that has targeted Internet of Things (IoT) devices and web applications to enroll them into a botnet known as RondoDox.As of December 2025, the activity has been observed leveraging the recently disclosed React2Shell (CVE-2025-55182, CVSS score: 10.0) flaw as an initial access vector, CloudSEK said…
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NDSS 2025 “¢ Decentralized Infrastructure For Sharing Trusted Encrypted Facts And Nothing More
Session 7C: Secure Protocols Authors, Creators & Presenters: Sofia Celi (Brave Software), Alex Davidson (NOVA LINCS & Universidade NOVA de Lisboa), Hamed Haddadi (Imperial College London & Brave Software), Gonçalo Pestana (Hashmatter), Joe Rowell (Information Security Group, Royal Holloway, University of London) PAPER DiStefano: Decentralized Infrastructure for Sharing Trusted Encrypted Facts and Nothing More We…