What can’t you say on TikTok?

This week on the Lock and Code podcast … A funny thing happened on TikTok last month, and it has brought allegations of censorship, manipulation, and control. It was the week of January 22, and after a long legal battle, TikTok had finally—for the first time in its company history—moved its...

Scammers Use Spain-Portugal Blackout for TAP Air Refund Phishing Scam

SEO: Cybercriminals are using the recent power outages in Spain and Portugal to launch phishing attacks disguised as…...

Internet Archive (Archive.org) Goes Down Following “Power Outage” (Updated)

The Internet Archive Archive.org, home to the Wayback Machine, is temporarily offline due to a reported power outage.…...

Russian Hackers Sandworm Cause Power Outage in Ukraine Amidst Missile Strikes

The notorious Russian hackers known as Sandworm targeted an electrical substation in Ukraine last year, causing a brief power outage in October 2022. The findings come from Google's Mandiant, which described the hack as a "multi-event cyber attack" leveraging a novel technique for impacting...

Citrix PVS: Target Devices giving error message "login request timed out " after Power Outage

After an interruption in service, some target devices are giving an error "login request timed out"...

Ransomware Attack Caused Power Outages in the Biggest South African City

Yesterday, some residents of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, were left without electricity after the city's power company got attacked by a ransomware virus. City Power, the company responsible for powering South Africa's financial capital Johannesburg, confirmed Thursday on Twitt...

Ransomware Attack Caused Power Outages in the Biggest South African City

Yesterday, some residents of Johannesburg, the largest city in South Africa, were left without electricity after the city's power company got attacked by a ransomware virus. City Power, the company responsible for powering South Africa's financial capital Johannesburg, confirmed Thursday on Twitt...

Compromising vital infrastructure: the power grid

Where were you when the lights went out? That line became famous after the 1977 blackout in New York City. This power outage was caused by lightning and lasted for up to two days, depending on which part of New York you lived in. While in this case the power grid failure was a freak incident due ...

A Dangerous Vulnerability in Solar Panels can Cause Power Outage

By Waqas Willem Westerhof, a cybersecurity researcher at Dutch security firm ITsec, This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: A Dangerous Vulnerability in Solar Panels can Cause Power Outage...

Hackers Suspected of Causing Second Power Outage in Ukraine

The same group of hackers that caused the power outage across several regions in Ukraine last Christmas holidays might have once again shut down power supply in northern Ukraine during the weekend. According to Ukrainian energy provider Ukrenergo, a cyber attack on Kyiv's power grid may have caus...

Hackers Cause World's First Power Outage with Malware

SCADA system has always been an interesting target for cyber crooks, given the success of Stuxnet malware that was developed by the US and Israeli together to sabotage the Iranian nuclear facilities a few years ago, and "Havex" that previously targeted organizations in the energy sector. Now once...

Mandriva Update for nut MDVSA-2012:087 (nut)

Check for the Version of nut OpenVAS Vulnerability Test Mandriva Update for nut MDVSA-2012:087 nut Authors: System Generated Check Copyright: Copyright c 2012 Greenbone Networks GmbH, http://www.greenbone.net This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms ...

Mandriva Update for nut MDVSA-2012:087 (nut)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2012 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 scriptxrefname:"URL",...

CVE-2012-2944

Buffer overflow in the addchar function in common/parseconf.c in upsd in Network UPS Tools NUT before 2.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service electric-power outage via a long string containing non-printable characters...

Buffer overflow

Buffer overflow in the addchar function in common/parseconf.c in upsd in Network UPS Tools NUT before 2.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service electric-power outage via a long string containing non-printable characters...

CVE-2012-2944

The CVE-2012-2944 vulnerability affects Network UPS Tools (NUT) upsd. A buffer overflow in the addchar() function of parseconf.c can be triggered by a long string containing non-printable characters, allowing a remote attacker to cause arbitrary code execution or a denial of service. Affected: NUT

CVE-2012-2944

Buffer overflow in the addchar function in common/parseconf.c in upsd in Network UPS Tools NUT before 2.6.4 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial of service electric-power outage via a long string containing non-printable characters...

FreeBSD ZFS ZIL不安全文件权限漏洞

Bugraq ID: 37657 FreeBSD是一款基于BSD的操作系统。 FreeBSD ZFS存在安全漏洞，本地攻击者可以利用漏洞获得敏感信息或提升特权。 当重播setattr事务时，重播代码默认会以不安全的权限设置属性，当记录这些事务信息时没有再次更改这些属性。 系统崩溃或掉电等情况下会把部分文件以07777属性设置。这可导致获得敏感信息或提升特权。 FreeBSD FreeBSD 8.0-STABLE FreeBSD FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE FreeBSD FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE FreeBSD FreeBSD 7.1-STABLE FreeBSD...