TP-Link faces US national security probe, potential ban on devices

The US government launched a national security investigation into the popular, Chinese-owned router maker TP-Link, with a potential eye on banning the company's devices in the United States. The investigation comes amid heightened tension between the US and the Chinese government, and after a...

The Top Cybersecurity Agency in the US Is Bracing for Donald Trump

Staffers at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency tell WIRED they fear the new administration will cut programs that keep the US safe—and “persecution.”...

CVE-2024-12523 States Map US <= 2.4.2 - Authenticated (Contributor+) Stored Cross-Site Scripting

The States Map US plugin for WordPress is vulnerable to Stored Cross-Site Scripting via the plugin's 'statesmap' shortcode in all versions up to, and including, 2.4.2 due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user supplied attributes. This makes it possible for authenticated...

PT-2024-17639 · WordPress · States Map Us

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: The States Map US plugin for WordPress versions up to, and including, 2.4.2 Description: The issue is related to Stored Cross-Site Scripting due to insufficient input sanitization and output escaping on user-supplied attributes in the states...

Why the US Military Can't Just Shoot Down the Mystery Drones

Small, easily weaponizable drones have become a feature of battlefields from the Middle East to Ukraine. Now the threat looms over the US homeland—and the Pentagon's ability to respond is limited...

US Sanctions Chinese Cybersecurity Firm for Firewall Exploit, Ransomware Attacks

SUMMARY The United States has taken strong action against a Chinese cybersecurity company, Sichuan Silence Information Technology, for…...

TikTok ban in US: Company seeks emergency injunction to prevent it

TikTok has requested an emergency injunction to stop or postpone the planned ban on the platform in the US. Back in March, the House of Representatives passed a bill that would effectively ban TikTok from the US unless Chinese owner ByteDance agreed to give up its share of the immensely popular...

Chinese Hackers Breach US Firm, Maintain Network Access for Months

SUMMARY A large U.S. company with operations in China fell victim to a large-scale cyberattack earlier this year,…...

FTC Says Data Brokers Unlawfully Tracked Protesters and US Military Personnel

The FTC is targeting data brokers that monitored people’s movements during protests and around US military installations. But signs suggest the Trump administration will be far more lenient...

The US Army's Vision of Soldiers in Exoskeletons Lives On

Following decades of failed attempts and dashed dreams, the US Army is once again trying out powered exoskeletons to help soldiers haul munitions and equipment in the field...

NSO Group Spies on People on Behalf of Governments

The Israeli company NSO Group sells Pegasus spyware to countries around the world including countries like Saudi Arabia, UAE, India, Mexico, Morocco and Rwanda. We assumed that those countries use the spyware themselves. Now we've learned that that's not true: that NSO Group employees operate the...

SMA Solar多款产品 SQL注入漏洞

SMA Solar Sunny Central SC 1760-US and others are a solar inverter from SMA Solar, Germany. A SQL injection vulnerability exists in various SMA Solar products. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to gain read and write access to device-specific log files. The following products are...

Andrew Tate’s ‘Educational Platform’ Was Hacked

Plus: The worst telecom hack in US history rolls on, iPhones are harder to break into, and more of the week’s top security news...

The US Is Calling Out Foreign Influence Campaigns Faster Than Ever

The 2024 elections were a high-water mark for naming and shaming threat actors from foreign governments. There’s still work to be done, though, on how to attribute disinformation campaigns most effectively...

US and Europe Account for 73% of Global Exposed ICS Systems

73% of globally exposed ICS systems are in the US and Europe, with the US leading at 38%.…...

Operation Shipwrecked: US Seizes PopeyeTools Marketplace, Charges 3

The US Department of Justice has taken down PopeyeTools, a major online marketplace used by cybercriminals to sell…...

CVE-2024-11592

A vulnerability has been found in 1000 Projects Beauty Parlour Management System 1.0 and classified as critical. This vulnerability affects unknown code of the file /admin/about-us.php. The manipulation of the argument pagetitle leads to sql injection. The attack can be initiated remotely. The...

PT-2024-17125 · Unknown · 1000 Projects Beauty Parlour Management System

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: 1000 Projects Beauty Parlour Management System version 1.0 Description: A critical issue has been discovered, affecting the /admin/about-us.php file. The manipulation of the pagetitle argument leads to SQL injection. This issue can be exploit...

US and UK Military Social Network “Forces Penpals” Exposes SSN, PII Data

Forces Penpals, a social network for US and UK military personnel, exposed the sensitive data of 1.1M users,…...

Anyone Can Buy Data Tracking US Soldiers and Spies to Nuclear Vaults and Brothels in Germany

More than 3 billion phone coordinates collected by a US data broker expose the detailed movements of US military and intelligence workers in Germany—and the Pentagon is powerless to stop it...