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25 New Hidden iOS 18 Features You Must Know

25 New Hidden iOS 18 Features You Must Know

Disney ditching Slack after massive July data breach

Disney ditching Slack after massive July data breach

Clickbaity or genius? 'BF cheated on you' QR codes pop up across UK

Clickbaity or genius? ‘BF cheated on you’ QR codes pop up across UK

Dell investigates data breach claims after hacker leaks employee info

Dell investigates data breach claims after hacker leaks employee info

How to Enable Game Mode on iPhone in iOS 18

How to Enable Game Mode on iPhone in iOS 18

HyperOS 2.0 New Update Might Come to These Xiaomi Devices

HyperOS 2.0 New Update Might Come to These Xiaomi Devices

Litespeed Cache bug exposes millions of WordPress sites to takeover attacks

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A critical vulnerability in the LiteSpeed Cache WordPress plugin can let attackers take over millions of websites after creating rogue admin accounts. LiteSpeed Cache is open-source and the most popular WordPress site acceleration plugin, with over 5 million active installations and support for WooCommerce, bbPress, ClassicPress, and Yoast SEO. The unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2024-28000) […]

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Computer Making Buzzing Noises – Why And How To Fix

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Buzzing noises aren’t exactly music to the ears. They can be incredibly concerning, especially if you can’t identify where they’re coming from or what’s causing them. In most cases, buzzing noises aren’t indicative of a severe problem. They’re usually caused by something as minor as a coil whine or a loose cable hitting the fans. […]

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CannonDesign confirms Avos Locker ransomware data breach

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The Cannon Corporation dba CannonDesign is sending notices of a data breach to more than 13,000 of its clients, informing that hackers breached and stole data from its network in an attack in early 2023. CannonDesign is a multi-awarded architectural, engineering, and consulting firm based in the United States, recognized for its work on high-profile projects such […]

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Microchip Technology discloses cyberattack impacting operations

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American chipmaker Microchip Technology Incorporated has disclosed that a cyberattack impacted its systems over the weekend, disrupting operations across multiple manufacturing facilities. Headquartered in Chandler, Arizona, the company has roughly 123,000 customers across multiple industry sectors, including industrial, automotive, consumer, aerospace and defense, communications, and computing markets. Due to an incident, some Microchip Technology manufacturing […]

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Hackers use PHP exploit to backdoor Windows systems with new malware

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Unknown attackers have deployed a newly discovered backdoor dubbed Msupedge on a university’s Windows systems in Taiwan, likely by exploiting a recently patched PHP remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2024-4577). CVE-2024-4577 is a critical PHP-CGI argument injection flaw patched in June that impacts PHP installations running on Windows systems with PHP running in CGI mode. It allows unauthenticated attackers […]

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New Windows updates break dual boot on some Linux systems

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According to user reports following this month’s Patch Tuesday, the August 2024 Windows updates are breaking dual boot on Linux systems with Secure Boot enabled. This issue is caused by Microsoft’s decision to apply a Secure Boot Advanced Targeting (SBAT) update to block Linux boot loaders unpatched against the CVE-2022-2601 GRUB2 Secure Boot bypass vulnerability, which could […]

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Realme 13 Pro+ 5G Review: Best Camera Phone in Its Segment?

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The Realme 13 Pro+ 5G smartphone, will thrill photographers and style icons alike, but the barrage of bloatware in the device will irritate others While megapixels were once the currency used to evaluate a smartphone camera’s power, Realme believes that AI imaging will be the new metric that defines the quality of a smartphone camera and, by […]

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US warns of Iranian hackers escalating influence operations

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The U.S. government is warning of increased effort from Iran to influence upcoming elections through cyber operations targeting Presidential campaigns and the American public. In a joint statement from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the FBI, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the U.S. says that Iran carried out cyberattacks […]

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Windows driver zero-day exploited by Lazarus hackers to install rootkit

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The notorious North Korean Lazarus hacking group exploited a zero-day flaw in the Windows AFD.sys driver to elevate privileges and install the FUDModule rootkit on targeted systems. Microsoft fixed the flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-38193 during its August 2024 Patch Tuesday, along with seven other zero-day vulnerabilities. CVE-2024-38193 is a Bring Your Own Vulnerable Driver (BYOVD) vulnerability in the Windows Ancillary Function […]

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Toyota confirms breach after stolen data leaks on hacking forum

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Toyota confirmed that its network was breached after a threat actor leaked an archive of 240GB of data stolen from the company’s systems on a hacking forum. “We are aware of the situation. The issue is limited in scope and is not a system wide issue,” Toyota told GeekFeed when asked to validate the threat […]

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