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US Senate to Vote on a Wiretap Bill That Critics Call ‘Stasi-Like’

A controversial bill reauthorizing the Section 702 spy program may force whole new categories of businesses to eavesdrop on the US government’s behalf, including on fellow Americans.

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OpenJS Foundation Targeted in Potential JavaScript Project Takeover Attempt

Security researchers have uncovered a "credible" takeover attempt targeting the OpenJS Foundation in a manner that evokes similarities to the recently uncovered incident aimed at the open-source XZ Utils project. "The OpenJS Foundation Cross Project Council received a suspicious series of emails with similar messages, bearing different names and overlapping GitHub-associated emails," OpenJS

FBI: Smishing Campaign Lures Victims With Unpaid-Toll Notices

The scam is spreading across the US and impersonates the specific toll-collection services of each state in malicious SMS messages.

Giant Tiger breach sees 2.8 million records leaked

A threat actor claims to be in possession of 2.8 million records originating from a hack at Canadian retail chain Giant Tiger

OpenSSF Warns of Fake Maintainers Targeting JavaScript Projects

By Deeba Ahmed Alarming social engineering attacks target critical open-source projects! Learn how to protect your project and the open-source community from takeovers. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: OpenSSF Warns of Fake Maintainers Targeting JavaScript Projects

Global Hack Exposes Personal Data: Implications & Privacy Protection – Axios Security Group

By Cyber Newswire In a digital age where information is the new currency, the recent global hack has once again highlighted… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Global Hack Exposes Personal Data: Implications & Privacy Protection – Axios Security Group

Large-scale brute-force activity targeting VPNs, SSH services with commonly used login credentials

Cisco Talos would like to acknowledge Brandon White of Cisco Talos and Phillip Schafer, Mike Moran, and Becca Lynch of the Duo Security Research team for their research that led to the ,identification of these attacks. Cisco Talos is actively monitoring a global increase in brute-force attacks against a variety

Electrolink FM/DAB/TV Transmitter

View CSAF 1. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY CVSS v3 8.8 ATTENTION: Exploitable remotely/low attack complexity/public exploits are available Vendor: Electrolink Equipment: FM/DAB/TV Transmitter Vulnerabilities: Authentication Bypass by Assumed-Immutable Data, Reliance on Cookies without Validation and Integrity Checking, Missing Authentication for Critical Function, Cleartext Storage of Sensitive Information 2. RISK EVALUATION Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to obtain full system access, keep the device from transmitting, escalate privileges, change credentials, and execute arbitrary code. 3. TECHNICAL DETAILS 3.1 AFFECTED PRODUCTS The following Electrolink transmitters are affected: 10W, 100W, 250W, Compact DAB Transmitter 500W, 1kW, 2kW Medium DAB Transmitter 2.5kW, 3kW, 4kW, 5kW High Power DAB Transmitter 100W, 500W, 1kW, 2kW Compact FM Transmitter 3kW, 5kW, 10kW, 15kW, 20kW, 30kW Modular FM Transmitter 15W - 40kW Digital FM Transmitter BI, BIII VHF TV Tra...

Who Stole 3.6M Tax Records from South Carolina?

For nearly a dozen years, residents of South Carolina have been kept in the dark by state and federal investigators over who was responsible for hacking into the state's revenue department in 2012 and stealing tax and bank account information for 3.6 million people. The answer may no longer be a mystery: KrebsOnSecurity found compelling clues suggesting the intrusion was carried out by the same Russian hacking crew that stole of millions of payment card records from big box retailers like Home Depot and Target in the years that followed.

Identity in the Shadows: Shedding Light on Cybersecurity's Unseen Threats

In today's rapidly evolving digital landscape, organizations face an increasingly complex array of cybersecurity threats. The proliferation of cloud services and remote work arrangements has heightened the vulnerability of digital identities to exploitation, making it imperative for businesses to fortify their identity security measures. Our recent research report, The Identity Underground