AI and the Evolution of Social Media

Oh, how the mighty have fallen. A decade ago, social media was celebrated for sparking democratic uprisings in the Arab world and beyond. Now front pages are splashed with stories of social platforms’ role in misinformation, business conspiracy, malfeasance, and risks to mental health. In a 2022...

Rapid7’s Ciara Cullinan Recognized as Community Trailblazer in Belfast Awards Program

At the 2024 Women Who Code She Rocks Awards, Rapid7 Software Engineer II Ciara Cullinan was recognized with their ‘Community Trailblazer’ award. According to Women Who Code, “This award celebrates the efforts of someone who brings people together and creates genuine connections in our tech...

The State of Stalkerware in 2023–2024

The State of Stalkerware in 2023 PDF The annual Kaspersky State of Stalkerware report aims to contribute to awareness and a better understanding of how people around the world are impacted by digital stalking. Stalkerware is commercially available software that can be discreetly installed on...

EulerOS 2.0 SP10 : libssh2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1317)

According to the versions of the libssh2 package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass...

EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : libssh2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1239)

According to the versions of the libssh2 package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass...

EulerOS 2.0 SP11 : libssh2 (EulerOS-SA-2024-1217)

According to the versions of the libssh2 package installed, the EulerOS installation on the remote host is affected by the following vulnerabilities : - The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other products, allows remote attackers to bypass...

Test and evaluate your WAF before hackers

Since 1991, Web Application Firewall, commonly referred to as WAF, has become one of the most common application security technologies available on the market. Since the last century, WAFs have evolved by incorporating the cloud and using Machine Learning instead of RegExp. Currently, few...

How Public AI Can Strengthen Democracy

With the worlds focus turning to misinformation, manipulation, and outright propaganda ahead of the 2024 U.S. presidential election, we know that democracy has an AI problem. But were learning that AI has a democracy problem, too. Both challenges must be addressed for the sake of democratic...

File Upload Vulnerability in Teaching Management System of Hunan Qiangzhi Technology Development Co.

Hunan Strong Intelligence Technology Development Co., Ltd. is a domestic university informatization service provider and national high-tech enterprise. A file upload vulnerability exists in the Academic Affairs Management System of Hunan Qiangzhi Science and Technology Development Co...

Dictators Used Sandvine Tech to Censor the Internet. The US Finally Did Something About It

Canada-based Sandvine has long sold its web-monitoring tech to authoritarian regimes. This week, the US sanctioned the company, severely limiting its ability to do business with American firms...

How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin

Meet the guy who taught US intelligence agencies how to make the most of the ad tech ecosystem, "the largest information-gathering enterprise ever conceived by man."...

RHEL 8 / 9 : OpenShift Container Platform 4.15.0 (RHSA-2023:7201)

The remote Redhat Enterprise Linux 8 / 9 host has packages installed that are affected by multiple vulnerabilities as referenced in the RHSA-2023:7201 advisory. Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is Red Hat's cloud computing Kubernetes application platform solution designed for on-premise or...

Keep Your Tech Flame Alive: Akamai Trailblazer — Richa Dayal

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service.novastar.tech Cross Site Scripting vulnerability OBB-3859481

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...

A Vending Machine Error Revealed Secret Face Recognition Tech

A student investigation at the University of Waterloo uncovered a system that scanned countless undergrads without consent...

Security Bulletin: There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition and Eclipse OpenJ9 that are shipped with CICS Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition (CVE-2023-22081, CVE-2023-22067 and CVE-2023-5676).

Summary There are multiple vulnerabilities in IBM SDK, Java Technology Edition and Eclipse OpenJ9 that are shipped with CICS Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition CVE-2023-22081, CVE-2023-22067 and CVE-2023-5676. An update to CICS Transaction Gateway Desktop Edition has been released to address the...

CSAM Drives Accurate TruRisk Scoring with EoL/EoS, Unauthorized Software, and Missing Security Agents

With the release of the Enterprise TruRisk Platform, Qualys is focusing each of its cyber security solutions on the more holistic goals of measuring, communicating, and eliminating cyber risk across the extended enterprise. Each offering within the platform works together, driving toward these...

Global Coalition and Tech Giants Unite Against Commercial Spyware Abuse

A coalition of dozens of countries, including France, the U.K., and the U.S., along with tech companies such as Google, MDSec, Meta, and Microsoft, have signed a joint agreement to curb the abuse of commercial spyware to commit human rights abuses. The initiative, dubbed the Pall Mall Process, ai...

SUSE SLED15 / SLES15 / openSUSE 15 Security Update : bouncycastle, jsch (SUSE-SU-2024:0327-1)

The remote SUSE Linux SLED15 / SLEDSAP15 / SLES15 / SLESSAP15 / openSUSE 15 host has packages installed that are affected by a vulnerability as referenced in the SUSE-SU-2024:0327-1 advisory. - The SSH transport protocol with certain OpenSSH extensions, found in OpenSSH before 9.6 and other...

Hewlett Packard Enterprise also searched by Cozy Bear

Hewlett Packard Enterprise HPE has disclosed that the state-sponsored actor known as Cozy Bear aka Midnight Blizzard, gained unauthorized access to HPE’s cloud-based email environment. This news comes only days after Microsoft broke very similar news that it got hacked by this same state sponsore...