Friday Squid Blogging: How Squid Survived Extinction Events

Science news: Scientists have finally cracked a long-standing mystery about squid and cuttlefish evolution by analyzing newly sequenced genomes alongside global datasets. The research reveals that these bizarre, intelligent creatures likely originated deep in the ocean over 100 million years ago,...

Cuttlefish Malware Silent Stalkers of Router Traffic

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New Cuttlefish Malware Hijacks Router Connections, Sniffs for Cloud Credentials

A new malware called Cuttlefish is targeting small office and home office SOHO routers with the goal of stealthily monitoring all traffic through the devices and gather authentication data from HTTP GET and POST requests. "This malware is modular, designed primarily to steal authentication materi...

Fedora: Security Advisory for plasma-sdk (FEDORA-2023-e31c3e4b6c)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: plasma-sdk-5.27.1-1.fc37

Plasma SDK contains the following tools for Plasma-related development: - CuttleFish - icon theme browser - EngineExplorer - tool to browse and interact with data engines - PlasmoidViewer - an isolated Plasma environment for testing applets - ThemeExplorer - shows all components of a widget theme...

ASB-A-194461020

In xhcivendorgetops of xhci.c, there is a possible out of bounds read due to a missing bounds check. This could lead to local escalation of privilege with no additional execution privileges needed. User interaction is not needed for exploitation...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: plasma-sdk-5.21.3-1.fc34

Plasma SDK contains the following tools for Plasma-related development: - CuttleFish - icon theme browser - EngineExplorer - tool to browse and interact with data engines - PlasmoidViewer - an isolated Plasma environment for testing applets - ThemeExplorer - shows all components of a widget theme...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid Populations Are Exploding

New research: "Global proliferation of cephalopods" Summary: Human activities have substantially changed the world's oceans in recent decades, altering marine food webs, habitats and biogeochemical processes. Cephalopods squid, cuttlefish and octopuses have a unique set of biological traits,...