by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 17, 2025 | IT Security
Internet security nonprofit Shadowserver Foundation has found more than 266,000 F5 BIG-IP instances exposed online after the security breach disclosed by cybersecurity company F5 this week. The company revealed on Wednesday that nation-state hackers breached its...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 16, 2025 | IT Security
Microsoft’s October Windows 11 updates have broken the “localhost” functionality, making applications that connect back to 127.0.0.1 over HTTP/2 no longer function properly. Localhost refers to the local computer or device you’re currently...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 16, 2025 | IT Security
Aram Hovespyan, co-founder and CEO of security biz Codific, says that the rating systems for identifying security vulnerabilities and assessing threat risk need to be overhauled. Having examined the CVE (Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures) vulnerability...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 16, 2025 | IT Security
Microsoft has disrupted a wave of Rhysida ransomware attacks in early October by revoking over 200 certificates used to sign malicious Teams installers. Vanilla Tempest, the threat group behind the attacks, used domains that mimic Microsoft Teams, such as...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 16, 2025 | IT Security
China’s cyberspies quietly broke into a Russian IT service provider in what researchers say is a rare example of Beijing turning its digital gaze on Moscow. Security boffins at Symantec’s Threat Hunter Team have flagged an intrusion by a Chinese APT group...
by Syndicated News Feed | Oct 16, 2025 | IT Security
The latest security feature for Gmail enables users to recover their accounts with a little help from their friends. Google is now allowing its customers to select trusted friends and family members, whose accounts can now be used to retrieve recovery codes in cases...