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Japan’s Nagoya Port Unified Terminal System (NUTS) suffered a major system outage Tuesday after a ransomware attack. The attack disrupted container operations at all terminals in the port, according to a notice (in Japanese) sent to customers. In particular, container…

8086 eventually won, but 8088 dominated in the early 80’s In the crazy days of the late 70’s and early 80’s, computers were much more expensive than they are today. While IBM was a mainframe company with some interesting plans,…

The Mozilla Foundation has released Firefox 115 to the stable channel. This update addresses several high-level vulnerabilities. One of them, CVE-2023-37201, involved a use-after-free issue in WebRTC certificate generation. “Possibly cause a use-after-free condition when an attacker creates a WebRTC…

July 5, 2023Ravi LakshmananCritical infrastructure security Called Advanced Theft Threat as Ransomware red energy It has been confirmed through its LinkedIn page that it is targeting energy businesses, oil and gas, telecommunications, and machinery sectors in Brazil and the Philippines.…

A security researcher has released a new tool designed to help developers check for npm packages affected by manifest confusion issues recently discovered in the registry. Felix Pankratz, a sysadmin and self-professed hacker, published the tool on GitHub on Monday,…

Secrets are intended to be hidden, or at least known only to a limited number of individuals (or systems). Otherwise they are not real secrets. In your personal life, revealing a secret can negatively affect your relationships, invite social stigma,…

Over the last few years, the adoption of Type-C connectors has increased. At the same time, it is accompanied by further technological innovations. This creates a need for devices and tools that monitor aspects of communication through connectors, especially power…

The European Commission has proposed changes to the GDPR aimed at enhancing cooperation between Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) working on cross-border enforcement. The rule is the result of a “list of wishes” sent to the European Commission in October 2022…

July 5, 2023Ravi LakshmananSupply Chain / Software Security The npm registry for the Node.js JavaScript runtime environment is the so-called obvious confusion This attack could allow threat actors to hide malware in project dependencies or execute arbitrary scripts during installation.…

More than half of UK citizens (56%) don’t trust the NHS to use AI to analyze patient data due to security and privacy concerns, according to a VMWare survey. Additionally, a quarter (25%) of the more than 2,000 respondents to…