by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 19, 2025 | IT Security
Typically shoppers can expect to find tie-dye t-shirts, broken lamps and old disco records at flea markets, now it seems storage drives filled with huge volumes of sensitive data can be added to that list. Robert Polet, a 62-year-old techie and apparent bargain hunter...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 18, 2025 | IT Security
A flaw patched last week by Palo Alto Networks is now under active attack and, when chained with two older vulnerabilities, allows attackers to gain root access to affected systems. This story starts with CVE-2024-9474, a 6.9-rated privilege escalation vulnerability...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 18, 2025 | IT Security
WinRAR 7.10 was released yesterday with numerous features, such as larger memory pages, a dark mode, and the ability to fine-tune how Windows Mark-of-the-Web flags are propagated when extracting files. WinRAR is a popular file archiver and compression tool for Windows...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 18, 2025 | IT Security
Newspaper publishing giant Lee Enterprises has confirmed that a ransomware attack is behind ongoing disruptions impacting the group’s operations for over two weeks. As a local news provider and one of the largest newspaper groups in the United States, Lee...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 18, 2025 | IT Security
Some employment scams take an unexpected turn as cybercriminals shift from “hiring” to “firing” staff 18 Feb 2025 • , 5 min. read Most of us are in a job or looking for one. Or both. That’s largely why employment and work-from-home scams are so popular among...
