2025
Microsoft rated this bug as low exploitability. Miscreants weaponized it in just 8 days
It's now hitting govt, enterprise targets On March 11 - Patch Tuesday - Microsoft rolled out its usual buffet of bug fixes. Just eight days later, miscreants had weaponized one of the vulnerabilities, using it against government and private sector targets in Poland and Romania.…
Hacking US crosswalks to talk like Zuck is as easy as 1234
AI-spoofed Mark joins fellow billionaires as the voice of the street – here's how it was probably done Video Crosswalk buttons in various US cities were hijacked over the past week or so to – rather than robotically tell people it's safe to walk or wait – instead…
Dems fret over DOGE feeding sensitive data into random AI
Using LLMs to pick programs, people, contracts to cut is bad enough – but doing it with Musk's Grok? Yikes A group of 48 House Democrats is concerned that Elon Musk's cost-trimmers at DOGE are being careless in their use of AI to help figure out where to…
Oracle hopes talk of cloud data theft dies off. CISA just resurrected it for Easter
Some in the infosec world definitely want to see Big Red crucified CISA – the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency – has issued an alert for those who missed Oracle grudgingly admitting some customer data was stolen from the database giant's public cloud infrastructure.…
CVE fallout: The splintering of the standard vulnerability tracking system has begun
MITRE, EUVD, GCVE … WTF? Comment The splintering of the global system for identifying and tracking security bugs in technology products has begun.…
Krebs throws himself on the grenade, resigns from SentinelOne after Trump revokes clearances
Illegitimi non carborundum? Nice password, Mr Ex-CISA Chris Krebs, the former head of the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and a longtime Trump target, has resigned from SentinelOne following a recent executive order that targeted him and revoked the security clearances of everybody at the company.…
Brit soldiers tune radio waves to fry drone swarms for pennies
Truck-mounted demonstration weapon costs 10p a pop, says MOD British soldiers have successfully taken down drones with a radio-wave weapon.…
Whistleblower describes DOGE IT dept rampage at America’s labor watchdog
Ignored infosec rules, exfiltrated data … then the mysterious login attempts from a Russian IP address began – claim Democratic lawmakers are calling for an investigation after a tech staffer at the US National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) blew the whistle on the cost-trimming DOGE's activities at the…
Free Blue Screens of Death for Windows 11 24H2 users
Microsoft rewards those who patch early with bricks hurled through its operating system Keeping with its rich history of updates that break Windows in unexpected ways, Microsoft has warned that two recent patches for Windows 11 24H2 are triggering blue screen crashes.…
Signalgate chats vanish from CIA chief phone
Extraordinary rendition of data, or just dropped it out of a helicopter? CIA Director John Ratcliffe's smartphone has almost no trace left of the infamous Signalgate chat – the one in which he and other top US national security officials discussed a secret upcoming military operation in a…