Microsoft urges users to patch a critical TCP/IP remote code execution vulnerability. Texas sues GM over the privacy of location and driving data. Google says Iran’s APT42 is responsible for recent phishing attacks targeting presidential campaigns. Doppelgänger struggles to sustain its operations. Sophos X-Ops examines the Mad Liberator extortion gang. Fortra researchers document a potential Blue Screen of Death vulnerability on Windows. China’s Green Cicada Network creates over 5,000 AI-controlled inauthentic X(Twitter) accounts. Kim Dotcom is being extradited to the United States. Our guest is Rui Ribeiro, CEO at JScrambler, to discuss how the extensive use of first and third-party JavaScript is a blessing and a curse. Wireless shifting can really grind your gears.
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Today’s guest Rui Ribeiro, JScrambler's CEO, joins us to discuss how the extensive use of first and third-party JavaScript is both a blessing and a curse.
Zero-click Windows TCP/IP RCE impacts all systems with IPv6 enabled, patch now (Bleeping Computer)
Texas sues General Motors over car data tracking (POLITICO)
Google: Iranian Group APT42 Behind Trump, Biden Hack Attempts (Security Boulevard)
Doppelgänger operation rushes to secure itself amid ongoing detections, German agency says (The Record)
Palo Alto Networks Patches Unauthenticated Command Execution Flaw in Cortex XSOAR (SecurityWeek)
A new extortion crew, Mad Liberator, emerges on the scene (The Register)
Beware, Windows users. Newly-spotted CVE-2024-6768 vulnerability can cause blue screen (MSPoweruser)
CyberCX Unmasks China-linked AI Disinformation Capability on X (Cyber CX)
Kim Dotcom is being Megauploaded to the US for trial (The Verge)
Want to Win a Bike Race? Hack Your Rival’s Wireless Shifters (WIRED)
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