Chilling Effects

Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it. Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent...

No, Trump Can’t Legally Federalize US Elections

The United States Constitution is clear: President Donald Trump can’t take control of the country’s elections. But he can sow confusion and fear...

Malicious code in fear-core-tasks (npm)

The package fear-core-tasks was found to contain malicious code...

MAL-2025-20341 Malicious code in fear-core-tasks (npm)

The package fear-core-tasks was found to contain malicious code...

Russia Is Going All Out on Election Day Interference

Along with other foreign influence operations—including from Iran—Kremlin-backed campaigns to stoke division and fear have gone into overdrive...

Imposter syndrome in cyber security

TL;DR Imposter syndrome is the belief that you are undeserving of your achievements Anyone can be affected by it There are ways to cope What is imposter syndrome? Imposter syndrome is the psychological pattern in which a person downplays their achievements and believes that they are secretly a...

U.K. Hacker Linked to Notorious Scattered Spider Group Arrested in Spain

Law enforcement authorities have allegedly arrested a key member of the notorious cybercrime group called Scattered Spider. The individual, a 22-year-old man from the United Kingdom, was arrested this week in the Spanish city of Palma de Mallorca as he attempted to board a flight to Italy. The mo...

WordPress Nudgify Social Proof, Sales Popup & FOMO plugin <= 1.3.3 - Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) vulnerability

Cross Site Request Forgery CSRF vulnerability discovered by Dhabaleshwar Das Patchstack Alliance in WordPress Plugin Nudgify Social Proof, Sales Popup & FOMO versions = 1.3.3...

How helpful are estimates about how much cyber attacks cost?

Coming from the newspaper and media industry, Im no stranger to wanting to write catchy headlines. Im certainly at fault for throwing together a story about so-and-sos house sold for X million dollars. But recently Ive been wondering if those "big numbers" for cybersecurity are helpful at all, ev...

Announcing the $12k NIST Elliptic Curves Seeds Bounty

The NIST elliptic curves that power much of modern cryptography were generated in the late '90s by hashing seeds provided by the NSA. How were the seeds generated? Rumor has it that they are in turn hashes of English sentences, but the person who picked them, Dr. Jerry Solinas, passed away in ear...

Gen Z fears physical violence from being online more than anyone else, Malwarebytes finds

The "version history" of the internet was split by what we could do online--simple browsing across Web 1.0s static web pages, instant connection throughout Web 2.0s social platforms, and, into the future, potential new forms of ownership within Web 3.0s dreams of decentralization. But, as...

fear-busters.com Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3365352

Following the coordinated and responsible vulnerability disclosure guidelines of the ISO 29147 standard, Open Bug Bounty has: a. verified the vulnerability and confirmed its existence; b. notified the website operator about its existence. Technical details of the vulnerability are currently hidde...

MAL-2023-878 Malicious code in the-universe-has-your-back-transform-fear-to-faith-by-gabrielle-bernstein-on-iphone-full-pages- (npm)

--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: ghsa-malware bd2dda2348af7d4384cb9a35d0387e5b87503b49779170d897bca656ab712b0e Any computer that has this package installed or running should be considered fully compromised. All secrets and keys stored on that computer should be...

Wipermania: An All You Can Wipe Buffet

Wipermania: An All You Can Wipe Buffet By Trellix · November 15, 2022 This blog was written by Max Kersten In early 2022, Ukrainian companies were struck by multiple destructive wipers, attacking various organizations across sectors. This raised questions about the usage and impact of “digital...

Identifying cyberthreats quickly with proactive security testing

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Matthew Hickey,...

Third Critical Bug Affects Netgear Smart Switches — Details and PoC Released

New details have been revealed about a recently remediated critical vulnerability in Netgear smart switches that could be leveraged by an attacker to potentially execute malicious code and take control of vulnerable devices. The flaw — dubbed "Seventh Inferno" CVSS score: 9.8 — is part of a trio ...

Netgear Smart Switches Open to Complete Takeover

Three severe Netgear vulnerabilities, codenamed Demon’s Cries, Draconian Fear and Seventh Inferno by the researcher that found them, affect 20 of the company’s managed smart switches and could allow an attacker to take them over. The bugs were patched on Friday with zero technical details made...

Patch now! Netgear fixes serious smart switch vulnerabilities

In a security advisory, NetGear has announced it has fixed three vulnerabilities in firmware updates for several network devices. Most of the affected products are smart switches, some of them with cloud management capabilities that allow for configuring and monitoring them over the web. One of t...

Critical Auth Bypass Bug Affect NETGEAR Smart Switches — Patch and PoC Released

Networking, storage and security solutions provider Netgear on Friday issued patches to address three security vulnerabilities affecting its smart switches that could be abused by an adversary to gain full control of a vulnerable device. The flaws, which were discovered and reported to Netgear by...

Book Sale: Beyond Fear

I have 80 copies of my 2000 book Beyond Fear available at the very cheap price of $5 plus shipping. Note that there is a 20% chance that your book will have a "BT Counterpane" sticker on the front cover. Order your signed copy here...