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Having a strong password actually can prevent most attacks.
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The latest information in security news, research, hacker techniques and vulnerabilities.
darkreading
- China-Backed Phishing Attack Targets India Postal System Users July 29, 2024A large text-message phishing attack campaign attributed to the China-based Smishing Triad employs malicious iMessages.Nathan Eddy, Contributing Writer
- Millions of Devices Vulnerable to 'PKFail' Secure Boot Bypass Issue July 26, 2024Several vendors for consumer and enterprise PCs share a compromised crypto key that should never have been on the devices in the first place.Jai Vijayan, Contributing Writer
- CrowdStrike Outage Losses Estimated at a Staggering $5.4B July 26, 2024Researchers track the healthcare sector as experiencing the biggest financial losses, with banking and transportation following close behind.Dark Reading Staff
Kali Linux
- Kali Linux 2024.2 Release (t64, GNOME 46 & Community Packages) June 5, 2024A little later than usual, but Kali 2024.2 is here! The delay has been due to changes under the hood to make this happen, which is where a lot of focus has been. The community has helped out a huge amount, and this time they’ve not only been adding new packages, but updating and fixing […]
- xz-utils backdoor: how to get started April 1, 2024Following the recent disclosure of a backdoor in upstream xz/liblzma, we are writing this “get started” kind of blog post. We will explain how to setup an environment with the backdoored version of liblzma, and then the first commands to run to validate that the backdoor is installed. All in all, it should just take […]
- All about the xz-utils backdoor March 29, 2024As of 5:00 pm ET on March 29, 2024 the following information is accurate. Should there be updates to this situation, they will be edited onto this blog post. The xz-utils package, starting from versions 5.6.0 to 5.6.1, was found to contain a backdoor (CVE-2024-3094). This backdoor could potentially allow a malicious actor to compromise […]
