The Information Highway

The Information Highway

Bill Toulas is a technology writer and infosec news reporter with over a decade of experience working on various online publications. An open source advocate and Linux enthusiast, is currently finding pleasure in following hacks, malware campaigns, and data breach incidents, as well as by exploring the intricate ways through which tech is swiftly transforming our lives.

Bitwarden adds passkey support to log into web password vaults

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The open-source Bitwarden password manager has announced that all users can now log into their web vaults using a passkey instead of the standard username and password pairs.


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Data breach at healthcare tech firm impacts 4.5 million patients

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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.


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Nearly 11 million SSH servers vulnerable to new Terrapin attacks

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Almost 11 million internet-exposed SSH servers are vulnerable to the Terrapin attack that threatens the integrity of some SSH connections.


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CISA warns of actively exploited bugs in Chrome and Excel parsing library

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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.


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Online museum collections down after cyberattack on service provider

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Museum software solutions provider Gallery Systems has disclosed that its ongoing IT outages were caused by a ransomware attack last week.


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Top Breaches Of 2023

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