Hackers can and are contributing to open-source projects, but their contributions are not benign. Open-source – including AI code generators , are the main stay of software development. Saves time and money. In the second quarter of 2025, data exfiltration remained the top priority for attackers looking to quietly compromise developer environments from the inside out. In […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]CISA disclosed a vulnerability that can be exploited to tamper with both passenger and freight train brakes. The railroad industry has known about the weakness for 20 years but even though the government approached them multiple times, they declined to fix it. Basically, there is a box at the end of the train called a […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The Supreme Court recently said that it was okay for AI companies to steal your copyrighted material to train the AI models. Not everyone thinks that is a wise decision. Cloudflare has had an option since late last year for website owners who are Cloudflare customers to manually block AI bots from scraping their content. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Cost of Recent UK Retail Cyberattacks is $350 to $600 Million Britain’s Cyber Monitoring Centre (CMC) estimates the total cost of the cyberattacks that crippled major UK retail organizations recently could be in the region of £270-440 million ($362-$591 million). Marks & Spencer, the Co-op, and Harrods were all targets. That is a lot of money for […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]The FBI says that BADBOX 2.0 is a malware campaign that has infected over a million home Internet-connected devices. Once infected it becomes part of hacker’s attack army. It is commonly found in Chinese smart TVs (where most of them are made) and also on streaming boxes, projectors, tablets and even your smart dishwasher. Even […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]We have seen multiple attacks in the last few years on municipal water supplies. The good news is that none of them killed anyone. Mostly, that was just because we were lucky. A bug in a TLS certificate (used to implement HTTPS) allowed researchers to view the water system control panel in hundreds of public […]
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