by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 5, 2025 | IT Security
Developers trying to add Rust code to the Linux kernel continue to face opposition from kernel maintainers who believe using multiple languages is an unwelcome and risky complication. Concerns surfaced last September when Microsoft software engineer Wedson Almeida...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 5, 2025 | IT Security
The US Treasury Department has assured Congress that a “special government employee” associated with Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) has “read-only” access to vital federal government payment systems that disburse...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 5, 2025 | IT Security
Don’t wait for a costly breach to provide a painful reminder of the importance of timely software patching 05 Feb 2025 • , 5 min. read Vulnerability exploitation has long been a popular tactic for threat actors. But it’s becoming increasingly so – a fact that should...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 4, 2025 | IT Security
Googlers have not only figured out how to break AMD’s security – allowing them to load unofficial microcode into its processors to modify the silicon’s behavior – but also demonstrated this by producing a microcode patch that makes the chips always output...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 4, 2025 | IT Security
Zyxel has issued a security advisory about actively exploited flaws in CPE Series devices, warning that it has no plans to issue fixing patches and urging users to move to actively supported models. VulnCheck discovered the two flaws in July 2024, but last week,...
by Syndicated News Feed | Feb 4, 2025 | IT Security
Android and iOS apps on the Google Play Store and Apple App Store contain a malicious software development kit (SDK) designed to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases using optical character recognition (OCR) stealers. The campaign is called...
