Over the holidays, the npm package registry was flooded with more than 3,000 packages, including one called “everything,” and others named a variation of the word. These 3,000+ packages make it impossible for all npm authors to unpublish their packages from the registry. […]
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Mandiant’s account on X hacked to push cryptocurrency scam
The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency scam. […]
Hacker hijacks Orange Spain RIPE account to cause BGP havoc
Orange Spain suffered an internet outage today after a hacker breached the company’s RIPE account to misconfigure BGP routing and an RPKI configuration. […]
Nigerian hacker arrested for stealing $7.5M from charities
A Nigerian national was arrested in Ghana and is facing charges related to business email compromise (BEC) attacks that caused a charitable organization in the United States to lose more than $7.5 million. […]
PornHub blocks North Carolina, Montana over new age verification laws
Adult media giant Aylo has blocked access to many of its websites, including PornHub, to visitors from Montana and North Caroline as new age verifications laws go into effect. […]
LastPass now requires 12-character master passwords for better security
LastPass notified customers today that they are now required to use complex master passwords with a minimum of 12 characters to increase their accounts’ security. […]
Data breach at healthcare tech firm impacts 4.5 million patients
HealthEC LLC, a provider of health management solutions, suffered a data breach that impacts close to 4.5 million individuals who received care through one of the company’s customers. […]
Nearly 11 million SSH servers vulnerable to new Terrapin attacks
Almost 11 million internet-exposed SSH servers are vulnerable to the Terrapin attack that threatens the integrity of some SSH connections. […]
CISA warns of actively exploited bugs in Chrome and Excel parsing library
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added two vulnerabilities to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, a recently patched flaw in Google Chrome and a bug affecting an open-source Perl library for reading information in an Excel file called Spreadsheet::ParseExcel. […]
Steam drops support for Windows 7 and 8.1 to boost security
Steam is no longer supported on Windows 7, Windows 8, and Windows 8.1 as of January 1, with the company recommending users upgrade to a newer operating system. […]