Background check service National Public Data confirms a breach after hackers leaked a stolen database with millions of SSNs and other sensitive personal info
General Information What Happened? There appears to have been a data … CNET : National Public Data Breach: How to Protect Your Social Security Number Mike Snider / USA Today : National Public Data co...
Apple releases emergency security updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS, and watchOS to patch three zero-day vulnerabilities, for a total of 16 zero-days fixed in 2023
Attacks Underway Lance Whitney / ZDNet : Apple issues emergency security updates for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch Kevin Poireault / Infosecurity : mWISE: Why Zero Days Are Set for Highest Year on Rec...
Rogers experienced an 18+ hour outage on Friday, affecting internet and phone services, including 911 calls, in parts of Canada
One of Canada's largest service providers had a major outage this morning. Voice of America : Millions of Canadians Lose Mobile, Internet Services Jem Aswad / Variety : The Weeknd's First Stadium Tour...
Apple releases iOS 15.4.1, iPadOS 15.4.1, and macOS 12.3.1 to fix two zero-days that “may have been actively exploited”; Apple has fixed five zero-days in 2022
Update Now Warning Issued To All iPhone Users Mariella Moon / Engadget : Apple's latest iOS and macOS updates patch two zero-day vulnerabilities Bogdan Popa / Softpedia News : iOS 15.4.1 Finally Resol...
Spectre researcher Daniel Gruss says attacks work “super-reliably” on AMD CPUs, despite the company claiming “near zero risk” due to different architecture
Meltdown and Spectre Security Attacks Haunt Chip Industry Zeljka Zorz / Help Net Security : Meltdown and Spectre: Data theft hardware bugs affect most modern CPUs Robert Graham / Errata Security : Som...
Thousands of web apps dependent on JavaScript module Left-Pad broken for a few hours after developer yanks it from NPM in protest
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Exploits for two more Flash vulnerabilities found in Hacking Team leak; Adobe expected to patch the flaws this week
again— to new 0-day attacks Chris Williams / The Register : Flash HOLED AGAIN TWICE below waterline in fresh Hacking Team reveals Kafeine / Malware don't need Coffee : CVE-2015-5122 (HackingTeam 0d tw...