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Dec 12, 2023

50K WordPress sites exposed to RCE attacks by critical bug in backup plugin

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A critical severity vulnerability in a WordPress plugin with more than 90,000 installs can let attackers gain remote code execution to fully compromise vulnerable websites.

Known as Backup Migration, the plugin helps admins automate site backups to local storage or a Google Drive account.

The security bug (tracked as CVE-2023–6553 and rated with a 9.8÷10 severity score) was discovered by a team of bug hunters known as Nex Team, who reported it to WordPress security firm Wordfence under a recently launched bug bounty program.

Dec 12, 2023

Ukraine’s Kyivstar Says It Faces ‘Powerful’ Cyberattack

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, finance, mobile phones

Ukraine’s largest mobile phone operator said Russia was most likely behind a “powerful” cyberattack that disrupted phone and internet services Tuesday for about 24 million people in the country.

The cyberattack, the largest to strike Ukraine since Russia’s invasion began nearly two years ago, took down ATMs and digital banking services, disabled some air raid sirens, and hampered broader cellular service across Ukraine.

“This is definitely a cyberattack and the probability that Russian entities are behind it is very close to 100%,” Oleksandr Komarov, chief executive officer of Kyivstar GSM JSC, told Bloomberg by phone.

Dec 8, 2023

Artificial Intelligence is a Top Priority for Tech Leaders in 2024

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AI will improve cybersecurity they said in IEEE survey.

Dec 8, 2023

Productivity Killers: Unveiling the Hidden Culprits

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Dec 8, 2023

Microsoft Outlook Attacked over 10K Times in One Summer

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This post is also available in: he עברית (Hebrew)

Microsoft Outlook was reportedly targeted over 10,000 times this summer by a single threat actor, which is believed to be aligned with Russia.

Cybersecurity company Proofpoint recently unveiled its research announcing that a group they call TA422 (or Forest Blizzard, Pawn Storm, Fancy Bear, and BlueDelta) was seen attempting daily hacking into the same accounts. It seems that this is a continuation of an earlier campaign by TA422 against various organizations in Europe and North America. US intelligence links the group to its Russian counterpart, the GRU.

Dec 5, 2023

Gmail is now much better at detecting spam following major upgrade

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The new spam detector was tested internally for a year.


Gmail is using a new text vectorizer, called RETVec, to significantly improve spam detection while reducing false positives and latency.

Dec 4, 2023

Cybersecurity | Defending the Digital Frontier

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Cyber security is the practice of protecting computer systems, networks, and programs from digital attacks, unauthorized access, damage, or theft of data. The goal of cybersecurity is to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and computing resources.
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Dec 3, 2023

23andMe Hackers Accessed Over 14,000 Customer Accounts

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The hack, which provided unauthorized access to ‘files containing profile information about other users’ ancestry,’ impacted 0.1% of 23andMe’s users worldwide.

Dec 2, 2023

Diamond-stretching technique makes qubits more stable and controllable

Posted by in categories: cybercrime/malcode, energy, quantum physics

Researchers are claiming a breakthrough in quantum communications, thanks to a new diamond-stretching technique they say greatly increases the temperatures at which qubits remain entangled, while also making them microwave-controllable.

Quantum networking is an emerging field that uses weird quantum phenomena to send and receive information. These networks will be impossible to hack, and will use quantum entanglement to cover large distances, creating pairs of qubits which mirror each other’s quantum state without any physical connection.

Diamond-based qubits are capable of maintaining their state of entanglement for a decent length of time – but only provided they’re kept incredibly cold – just a hair above absolute zero. That limits their usefulness, because it’d mean you’d need a giant, energy-intensive cooling apparatus at every node of your quantum network.

Nov 30, 2023

Generative AI And The Future Of Content Creation

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The explosive growth of generative AI over the last year has been truly phenomenal. Kick-started by the public release of ChatGPT (was it really only a year ago?), it’s now everywhere. Keen to ride the wave, every app from Office to eBay has been adding generative capabilities, and growing numbers of us are finding uses for it in our everyday and professional lives.

Given its nature, it’s not surprising that content creators, in particular, have found it a powerful addition to their toolset. Marketing agencies, advertising creatives, news organizations and social media influencers have been among the most enthusiastic early adopters.

While it brings great opportunities for improving efficiency and automating manual, repetitive elements of creative work, it also throws up significant challenges. Issues around copyright, spam content, hallucination, the formulaic nature of algorithmic creation and bias all need to be considered by professionals planning on adopting it into their workflow.

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