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MAL-2026-4604 Malicious code in lynx-keeper-cli (npm)
--- -= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=- Source: amazon-inspector 9cebbf0e6cc5a35eea6e6869d295d072526b6ff7d566c49bc80f15952138cf88 lynx-keeper-cli ships a heavily obfuscated payload in dist/index.js that runs at require time. After a CI-evasion gate that aborts when...
CVE-2026-25244
WebdriverIO is a test automation framework for unit, e2e and component testing using WebDriver, WebDriver BiDi and Appium. Versions below 9.24.0 contain a command injection vulnerability leading to remote code execution RCE in test orchestration. Git permits branch names containing shell...
It’s Time to End the NSA’s Metadata Collection Program
Opinion: Congress needs to pull the plug and end the authority for the CDR program...
Question mark in Veeam Explorer for Microsoft SQL Server meaning
Challenge In Veeam Explorer for SQL, some databases may be listed with a question mark. Despite the question mark and warning, some restore operations may still function. However, some restore details may not auto-populate due to the lack of metadata. Cause The question mark indicates that metada...
NSA Says It Will End Access to 215 Records When Authority Ends in November
The National Security Agency says that once its legal authority to conduct Section 215 bulk telephone surveillance ends on Nov. 29, its analysts no longer will be allowed to access the database that holds all of the collected Section 215 records. In May, an appeals court ruled that bulk telephone...
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso on the End of the Patch Tuesday Era, Section 215 and More
Dennis Fisher and Mike Mimoso talk about the end of the Patch Tuesday era for most Microsoft customers, the appeals court ruling on Section 215 metadata collection and Dennis’s idea for a security industry commission. Download: digitalunderground201.mp3 Music by Chris Gonsalves...
FISC Approves 90-Day Extension of Section 215 Surveillance Authority
The secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court has authorized a 90-day extension to the Section 215 bulk telephone collection program used by the National Security Agency, giving the agency through the end of February to run the program in the absence of legislation establishing a new...
Ex-NSA Director Admits 'We Kill People Based On Metadata' with Drone Strike
We All now know about the existence of the extensive metadata collection program by U.S National Security Agency NSA, which creates an intimate repository of our lives -- whom we love, whom we’re friends with, where we work, whom we call, when we you, how long we talk over the calls, and how ofte...
White House Proposal Would End NSA Metadata Program
Privacy advocates are cautiously applauding the reports that the Obama administration will unveil a legislative proposal to end the National Security Agency’s collection of Americans’ bulk phone records, but are concerned what the fine print on that proposal might hold. “Given all the various way...
Obama Orders NSA Bulk Metadata Surveillance Reforms
President Obama today announced reforms to the National Security Agency’s bulk metadata collection program under Section 215 of the PATRIOT Act, ordering a transition that would end the program as it exists today, and prohibit the government from storing and accessing the data without secret cour...
NSA Bulk Telephony Metadata Collection Program Legal
A federal court today shot down a challenge by the American Civil Liberties Union ACLU to the National Security Agency’s bulk phone metadata collection program, determining that the spy agency’s actions are legal. The ruling by U.S. District Court judge William Pauley contradicts a Dec. 16 D.C...
Gen. Keith Alexander Black Hat Keynote
When Gen. Keith Alexander, the director of the National Security Agency and chief of U.S. Cyber Command, agreed to deliver the opening keynote at Black Hat USA 2013, he had no idea that by the time he took the stage many of the NSA’s most secret information-collection programs would be public...
EFF, Eclectic Group of Organizations Sue NSA Over Data Collection
If politics makes strange bedfellows, as the saying goes, wholesale government surveillance takes that to an entirely new level. The clearest evidence yet of the broad and diverse set of groups opposed to the NSA’s domestic spying programs came Tuesday when the EFF said that is representing a...
DNI Clapper Says Statement to Congress About NSA Data Collection Was 'Erroneous'
In a highly unusual move, James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, said Tuesday that he misspoke when he told a Congressional committee in March that the National Security Agency does not assemble dossiers on Americans. Clapper said at the time that the agency does not do so...
FAQ: The NSA Metadata and PRISM Programs
The details of extensive government surveillance of U.S. citizens through collection of cell phone metadata, and email and Internet activities through the PRISM program has raised a lot of questions and caused quite a bit of confusion about what’s actually happening. To help users sort through th...
Suit Filed Against NSA, Obama Over Surveillance Program
A group of people, including a former federal prosecutor and the parents of a Navy SEAL sniper killed in action, have filed a class-action law suit against the National Security Agency, Verizon and President Obama over the NSA’s collection of cell phone data. The suit says the order that enabled...