Stephanie Moore reports: Spartanburg County officials reported Friday that the county experienced a cybersecurity incident earlier this week. Scottie Kay Blackwell, the county communications manager, said the cyberattack immediately triggered a response from the network software, cybersecurity vendor, and law enforcement. Blackwell said the attack was contained by the county’s software platforms and personnel. The…
Apple has been hit with a fine of €150 million ($162 million) by France’s competition watchdog over the implementation of its App Tracking Transparency (ATT) privacy framework. The Autorité de la concurrence said it’s imposing a financial penalty against Apple for abusing its dominant position as a distributor of mobile applications for iOS and iPadOS…
Cybersecurity researchers have uncovered two local privilege escalation (LPE) flaws that could be exploited to gain root privileges on machines running major Linux distributions. The vulnerabilities, discovered by Qualys, are listed below – CVE-2025-6018 – LPE from unprivileged to allow_active in SUSE 15’s Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) CVE-2025-6019 – LPE from allow_active to root in
Roma Patel writes: We often cover consumer class action complaints against companies regarding the privacy and security of personal information. However, litigation can also arise from alleged breach of contract between two companies. This week, we will analyze a medical diagnostic testing laboratory’s April 2025 complaint against its managed services provider for its alleged failure…
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of two security vulnerabilities impacting Supermicro Baseboard Management Controller (BMC) firmware that could potentially allow attackers to bypass crucial verification steps and update the system with a specially crafted image. The medium-severity vulnerabilities, both of which stem from improper verification of a cryptographic signature, are
Like a broken clock, President Trump’s despicable response to murder, that “Things happen,” is occasionally accurate. Waking up early to start working on Monday, yours truly managed to slip and fall down the stairs in her home. Did you know that the adult human has five lumbar vertebrae? I fractured four of them. Needless to……
Microsoft has revealed that one of the threat actors behind the active exploitation of SharePoint flaws is deploying Warlock ransomware on targeted systems. The tech giant, in an update shared Wednesday, said the findings are based on an “expanded analysis and threat intelligence from our continued monitoring of exploitation activity by Storm-2603.” The threat actor…
