Ravie LakshmananMar 18, 2026Vulnerability / Data Protection Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw impacting the GNU InetUtils telnet daemon (telnetd) that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2026-32746, carries a CVSS score of 9.8 out of 10.0. It has been...Read More
Bitrefill has released a comprehensive report on a security breach that occurred on March 1, and it believes it to be the work of the North Korean hacking group called the Lazarus Group. The Lazarus Group was also responsible for the largest single heist in crypto history when it hit Bybit early last year for...Read More
Age-verified Roblox accounts being offered for sale online expose a terrifying loophole in the gaming platform’s new safety measures. The platform popular with children, and notorious for its predator problem, recently introduced new age-verification tools to safeguard gaming spaces for children — but experts say the technology cannot keep up. Pre-made accounts have recently appeared...Read More
A convicted Sacramento child molester who was set to be released under California’s elder parole law now faces new charges stemming from an alleged child sexual assault that happened in Roseville in 1996, prosecutors announced on Thursday. David Allen Funston, 64, was convicted back in 1999 of 16 counts of kidnapping and child molestation. Funston...Read More
Ravie LakshmananNov 25, 2025Malware / Vulnerability The threat actor known as ToddyCat has been observed adopting new methods to obtain access to corporate email data belonging to target companies, including using a custom tool dubbed TCSectorCopy. “This attack allows them to obtain tokens for the OAuth 2.0 authorization protocol using the user’s browser, which can...Read More
Published March 17. 2026 06:40PM The Pennsylvania State Police rolled out a presentation to educate families about emerging technology, the risks of online gaming and the critical precautions to take to ensure their children can enjoy the Internet safely. PSP’s comprehensive program, unveiled at the Allegheny County Emergency Services Facility, explored a variety of popular...Read More
On Wednesday, Cisco revealed that a group of Chinese government-backed hackers is exploiting a vulnerability to target its enterprise customers who use some of the company’s most popular products. Cisco has not said how many of its customers have already been hacked, or may be running vulnerable systems. Now, security researchers say there are hundreds...Read More
Maine’s court system wants to hire its first full-time cybersecurity person, years after records started becoming available online. Six of the state’s 16 counties currently have their court dockets, including case information and some schedules, online. The judiciary said all counties should be online by February 2027. As more cases — including parental rights, criminal cases...Read More
Four siblings who were longtime friends of Michael Jackson are accusing the late pop star of being a “serial child predator” who preyed upon then when they were as young as “seven or eight” in a bombshell lawsuit filed last week in California. Edward, Dominic and Aldo Cascio and their sister Marie-Nicole Porte called Jackson...Read More
Vlad Ionescu and Ariel Herbert-Voss, cofounders of the cybersecurity startup RunSybil, were momentarily confused when their AI tool, Sybil, alerted them to a weakness in a customer’s systems last November. Sybil uses a mix of different AI models—as well as a few proprietary technical tricks—to scan computer systems for issues that hackers might exploit, like...Read More
