These ladies are found all over the world, but new research shows that these brave butterflies can migrate thousands of miles across the ocean. Painted Ladies, Vanessa cardfly at least 2,610 miles (4,200 kilometers) across the Atlantic Ocean, from West Africa to French Guiana in South America, according to a new study published in June … Read more
Glibc-based Linux systems are vulnerable to a new bug (CVE-2024-6387) in the OpenSSH server (sshd) and should be upgraded to the latest version. Infosec researchers at Qualys today published their findings revealing that sshd is vulnerable to a race condition that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to remotely execute code (RCE) on potentially hundreds of … Read more
Glibc-based Linux systems are vulnerable to a new bug (CVE-2024-6387) in the OpenSSH server (sshd) and should be upgraded to the latest version. Infosec researchers at Qualys today published their findings, showing that SSD is vulnerable to a race condition, which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform remote code execution (RCE) on potentially hundreds … Read more
A new vulnerability in UEFI firmware threatens the security of a wide range of Intel chip families in a similar way to BlackLotus and others like it. Security firm Eclypsium has just published its report of CVE-2024-0762 (CVSSv3: 7.5) after disclosing it to Phoenix Technologies, whose UEFI firmware has been affected. Phoenix Technologies offers UEFI/BIOS … Read more
Patch Tuesday Microsoft kicked off our summer season with a relatively light June patch Tuesday, releasing updates for 49 CVE-marked security flaws in its products — including a bug that was considered critical, a pretty scary bug in wireless networking, and one that was made public. The one that is publicly known and not yet … Read more
A vulnerability (or just Azure working as intended, depending on who you ask) in Microsoft’s cloud may allow miscreants to bypass firewall rules and gain access to other people’s private web resources. The problem, discovered by Tenable’s research team, stems from Service Tags, an Azure construct. These tags can be used to group IP addresses … Read more
MILLIONS of Google Chrome users have been urged to update the browser app after researchers discovered a dangerous high-level vulnerability. Google researchers have discovered a serious security riskCredit: Getty The vulnerability, assigned the CVE identifier CVE-2024-5274, is a type confusion bug in the V8 JavaScript and WebAssembly engine. The issue was reported on May 20 … Read more
Last week, some iPhone users reported that Apple’s iOS 17.5 update introduced a bug that caused old photos that had been deleted to reappear in the Photos app. Apple quickly released an iOS 17.5.1 update to fix the problem, but for many users, the explanation of “database corruption” in the release notes was all too … Read more
A bug in iOS 17.5 apparently causes deleted photos to reappear, and the problem even seems to affect iPhones and iPads that have been wiped and sold to other people. A Reddit user swiped an iPad in September 2023 following Apple guidelines before selling it to a friend. That friend updated the iPad to iPadOS … Read more