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.

WordPress.org to require 2FA for plugin developers by October

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Starting October 1st, WordPress.org accounts that can push updates and changes to plugins and themes will be required to activate two-factor authentication (2FA) on their accounts.

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Progress LoadMaster vulnerable to 10/10 severity RCE flaw

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Progress Software has issued an emergency fix for a maximum (10/10) severity vulnerability impacting its LoadMaster and LoadMaster Multi-Tenant (MT) Hypervisor products that allows attackers to remotely execute commands on the device.

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New RAMBO attack steals data using RAM in air-gapped computers

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 A novel side-channel attack dubbed "RAMBO" (Radiation of Air-gapped Memory Bus for Offense) generates electromagnetic radiation from a device's RAM to send data from air-gapped computers.

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SpyAgent Android malware steals your crypto recovery phrases from images

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A new Android malware named SpyAgent uses optical character recognition (OCR) technology to steal cryptocurrency wallet recovery phrases from screenshots stored on the mobile device.

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SonicWall SSLVPN access control flaw is now exploited in attacks

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SonicWall is warning that a recently fixed access control flaw tracked as CVE-2024-40766 in SonicOS is now "potentially" exploited in attacks, urging admins to apply patches as soon as possible.

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Top Breaches Of 2023

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