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Ron Wyden · OregonU.S. Senator Ron Wyden has sent a letter to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) requesting the agency to investigate Microsoft for failing to provide adequate security in its products, which led to ransomware attacks against healthcare organizations. [...]See the Story
U.S. Senator Accuses Microsoft of “Gross Cybersecurity Negligence”
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SoftwareHackers planted malicious code in open source software packages with more than 2 billion weekly updates in what is likely to be the world’s biggest supply-chain attack ever. The attack, which compromised nearly two dozen packages hosted on the npm repository, came to public notice on Monday in social media posts. Around the same time, Josh Junon, a maintainer or co-maintainer of the affected packages, said he had been “pwned” after falling for a…See the Story
Software Packages with More than 2 Billion Weekly Downloads Hit in Supply-Chain Attack
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Australia · AustraliaThe Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has issued a critical alert regarding a severe access control vulnerability in SonicWall products that is being actively exploited in attacks. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-40766, affects multiple generations of SonicWall firewalls and carries a critical CVSS score of 9.3, highlighting the significant risk it poses to organizations. The advisory notes a recent increase in exploitation targeting Austral…See the Story
