Improved cyber hygiene among businesses has led to a reduction in cyber insurance premiums by 15% worldwide over the last two years, a new report from Howden… Story on TechRepublic
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CISA Report Finds Most Open-Source Projects Contain Memory-Unsafe Code
More than half of open-source projects contain code written in a memory-unsafe language, a report from the U.S.’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security… Story on TechRepublic
Over 14M servers may be vulnerable to OpenSSH’s regreSSHion RCE flaw. Here’s what you need to do
Hold onto your SSH keys, folks! A critical vulnerability has just rocked OpenSSH, Linux’s secure remote access foundation, causing seasoned sysadmins… Story on ZDNet
5 WordPress Plugins Compromised; Millions of Websites at Risk
Millions of WordPress websites are under threat after a critical security breach involving several popular plugins. Security researchers discovered malicious code injected into these plugins… Story on eSecurity Planet
TeamViewer Breached by Russian State-Sponsored Hackers
A notorious Russian hacking group has breached the ‘corporate IT environment’ of TeamViewer, a popular remote access software, although no customer data appears… Story on PCMag
Domain That Redirected Hulu, 491K+ Other Websites to Porn Gets Shut Down
UPDATE 6/28: Domain registrar Namecheap has shut down the Polyfill.io domain, thereby eliminating the previous issue posed to almost 500,000 websites, Story on PCMag
This battery safety feature can break your AirTags (and other devices). Here’s how to fix it
The other day, someone brought us a couple of Apple AirTags to inspect. Both devices had stopped working after having their… Story on ZDNet
Men plead guilty to aggravated ID theft after pilfering police database
Two men have pleaded guilty to charges of computer intrusion and aggravated identity theft tied to their theft of records from a law… Story on ArsTechnica
Security Bug Allows Anyone To Spoof Microsoft Employee Emails – Slashdot
Security Bug Allows Anyone To Spoof Microsoft Employee Emails (techcrunch.com) A researcher has found a bug that allows anyone to impersonate… Story on Slashdot
The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt – Schneier on Security
The Hacking of Culture and the Creation of Socio-Technical Debt Culture is increasingly mediated through algorithms Story on Schneier On Security