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Fortinet releases patch for Firewalls

Fortinet releases patch for Firewalls

Fortinet has published an official advisory about a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-27997 impacting a number of their devices. They cite evidence it may have been exploited in a limited number of attacks aimed at government
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Chrome Browser not working on Win 11 with Malwarebytes after recent Microsoft update?

Chrome Browser not working on Win 11 with Malwarebytes after recent Microsoft update?

Malwarebytes is reporting a conflict with the Microsoft Windows 11 patch KB5027231 released on Tuesday. The conflict results in Google Chrome crashing when it tries to load. The issue does not seem to impact Windows 10 or all versions of Windows
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Today is World Password Day. Since we've not gotten to the no-password world continually being promised

Today is World Password Day. Since we've not gotten to the no-password world continually being promised

Today is World Password Day. Since we've not gotten to the no-password world continually being promised, here are four password tips courtesy of Sopho Naked Security. Lastly, in honor of May the 4th being with you, based on an analysis
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Common Phishing Subject Line Themes

Common Phishing Subject Line Themes

Your session expired. Click here to sign in again. / Your Account has Expired. The goal is to trick you into clicking a link that leads to an imposter site where the attacker hopes you will enter your login information. Cybercriminals look to
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NYDFS fines OneMain Financial Group $4.5m for Cybersecurity Violations

NYDFS fines OneMain Financial Group $4.5m for Cybersecurity Violations

OneMain permitted local administrative users to share accounts, compromising the ability to identify malicious actors, and also permitted those accounts to use the default password provided by OneMain at the time of user
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Parking Ticket QR Code Scam

Parking Ticket QR Code Scam

ever fun to see that paper flapping under the wiper blade as you return to your parked car. Cybercriminals in San Francisco are putting phony parking tickets on cars with a malicious QR code which leads to a fake website to collect your
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Google releases Chrome Emergency update

Google releases Chrome Emergency update

Friday, Google released an emergency update to their browser Chrome, taking it to version 112.0.5615.121. The update addresses a high-severity, zero-day vulnerability which could be exploited by a malicious webpage to run arbitrary code in the browser.
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Coordinated International Law Enforcement effort takes down dark web drug traffickers

Coordinated International Law Enforcement effort takes down dark web drug traffickers

Operation SpecTor, a joint effort by the FBI, Europol, Eurojust, and law enforcement agencies in eight foreign countries, has led to the seizure of $53.4 million dollars in cash and cryptocurrency, almost a ton of drugs, and the arrest
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Another Critical Patch out for a Zyxel Device

Another Critical Patch out for a Zyxel Device

Zyxel just released updates for a critical update for their Network Attached Storage (NAS) devices, tracked as CVE-2023-27992. This is on the heels of patches they released for their Firewalls a couple of months ago.
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More Apple Emergency Updates

More Apple Emergency Updates

Apple just released security updates for all their Operating systems: iOS, iPadOS, macOS, tvOS, watchOS as well as the Safari web browser.
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More Apple patches released for active exploits

More Apple patches released for active exploits

Apple just released updates for macOS Ventura, iOS 16, iPadOS 16 in addition to Safari on Big Sur and Monterey. These updates address vulnerabilities which can lead to arbitrary code execution and are being actively
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Hacking Show and Tell?

Hacking Show and Tell?

During the Pwn2Own Toronto hacking competition in December, several competitors were able to exploit the TP-Link Archer A21 (AX1800) WiFi router. These exploits netted the white hat teams a cool $25k for their efforts.
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