Did you sign up for the new White House app? Don’t use it until you read this, because it puts your privacy and data security at risk. Patrick Quirk takes an impressive technical piece and distills it for those of us who are not developers or coders. His article is based on original research by…
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in GitHub Desktop as well as other Git-related projects that, if successfully exploited, could permit an attacker to gain unauthorized access to a user’s Git credentials. “Git implements a protocol called Git Credential Protocol to retrieve credentials from the credential helper,” GMO Flatt Security researcher Ry0taK, who discovered the…
TLDR Even if you take nothing else away from this piece, if your organization is evaluating passkey deployments, it is insecure to deploy synced passkeys. Synced passkeys inherit the risk of the cloud accounts and recovery processes that protect them, which creates material enterprise exposure. Adversary-in-the-middle (AiTM) kits can force authentication fallbacks that circumvent strong
Joseph J. Lazzarotti writes: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming businesses—automating tasks, powering analytics, and reshaping customer interactions. But like any powerful tool, AI is a double-edged sword. While some adopt AI for protection, attackers are using it to scale and intensify cybercrime. Here’s a high-level discussion at emerging AI-powered cyber risks in 2025—and steps organizations…
Microsoft has shed light on an ongoing phishing campaign that targeted the hospitality sector by impersonating online travel agency Booking.com using an increasingly popular social engineering technique called ClickFix to deliver credential-stealing malware. The activity, the tech giant said, started in December 2024 and operates with the end goal of conducting financial fraud and theft….
A malicious campaign has been redirecting macOS users to a fake Homebrew website, infecting them with information stealer malware. The post Homebrew macOS Users Targeted With Information Stealer Malware appeared first on SecurityWeek.
Tom Williams reports: An external software developer engaged by an Australian government agency accidentally made a collection of private documents available on the public internet earlier this year, according to the nation’s Privacy Commissioner, Carly Kind. The commissioner revealed the data breach on Tuesday and confirmed the incident was reported to the Office of the……
