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Red Flags That Expose Fake North Korean IT Workers

Red Flags That Expose Fake North Korean IT Workers — or, How Not to Hire a Sanctions-Evading Bullshit Artist Right, here’s the mess: the article explains how companies keep hiring fake remote IT workers tied to North Korea,...

Hackers abuse npm mirrors to host phishing redirect pages

Hackers Found Yet Another Bloody Way to Abuse npm Mirrors Right, here’s the gist, because apparently the internet wasn’t already enough of a festering bin fire. Some enterprising little shits have been abusing public npm...

LACMA data breach last year exposed social security and medical data

LACMA's Data Breach: Because Apparently Locking the Damn Doors Was Too Much Trouble Right, here we go. The Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, or LACMA's transit cousin with a bureaucratic name long enough...

Hackers now exploit critical Gitea flaw in code injection attacks

Hackers Are Actively Screwing Around With a Critical Gitea Flaw Right, here’s the ugly version without the usual vendor fairy dust: attackers are now actively exploiting a critical Gitea vulnerability to pull off code injection...

Microsoft tests new privacy controls for Windows 11 desktop apps

Microsoft Finally Pretends to Care About Windows 11 Privacy, the Absolute Mad Bastards So here’s the latest load of corporate faffing about: Microsoft is testing new privacy controls in Windows 11 that are supposed to let users...

Ubiquiti patches three max severity security vulnerabilities

Ubiquiti Finally Patches Three Nasty-as-Hell Max-Severity Bugs Well, what a surprise. Ubiquiti has patched three maximum-severity security vulnerabilities in its UniFi Protect cameras and NVR gear, because apparently shipping...

Snowflake ends service-account passwords. Now comes the hard part

Snowflake Finally Kills Service Account Passwords, Because Apparently We Needed a Disaster First Well, fucking shocker: Snowflake has finally decided to get rid of password-based logins for service accounts. You know, the kind of...

FBI disrupts proxy network enabling Chinese espionage operations

FBI Kicks Over a Chinese Spy Proxy Network, and About Bloody Time Too Right, here’s the short version for those of you who can’t be arsed to wade through the full thing: the FBI and friends have disrupted a proxy network...

Hackers target Microsoft SharePoint RCE chain with PoC exploit

Hackers Go After SharePoint Again, Because Of Course They Fucking Do Right then, here’s the miserable little summary. Attackers are actively poking at a Microsoft SharePoint remote code execution chain after proof-of-concept...

Boston Scientific says cyberattack disrupted operations globally

Boston Scientific Gets Smacked by a Global Cyberattack, Because Of Course It Fucking Did Boston Scientific, the massive medical device outfit, has admitted that a cyberattack managed to screw up parts of its operations around the...