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Update Firefox and Thunderbird now! Mozilla patches several high risk vulnerabilities

Malwarebytes

In Firefox 105 a total of seven vulnerabilities were patched, three of which received the security risk rating "high". One with the rating “high” risk. Since UTF-8 as character encoding was introduced in 2005, there may be still some URLs which use a different encoding. Thunderbird.

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10KBLAZE exploits could affect 9 out of 10 SAP installs of more than 50k customers

Security Affairs

The availability of 10KBLAZE PoC exploits for old SAP configuration issue poses a severe risk of attacks for business applications. The risk of cyber attacks against SAP systems is increased after security researchers released PoC exploits for old SAP configuration flaws. ” reads the analysis published by Onapsis.

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Second malware strain primed to attack Apple’s new M1 chip identified

SC Magazine

First, the M1 chip represents a break from the Intel x86 architecture that Apple has relied on since 2005 – a move that came with promises of greater security. The new chip, which runs on reduced instruction set computing (RISC) technology, was developed by Advanced RISC Machines (ARM), which makes 32-bit and 64-bit versions.

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Post-Quantum Cryptography: Lessons Learned from SHA-1 Deprecation

Security Boulevard

Since 2005, SHA-1 has been regarded as unsafe against well-funded adversaries. For businesses still using the broken SHA-1, they were facing serious risks , including: Increased possibility of a collision or man-in-the-middle attack. Prepare a quantum-safe architecture now. What SHA-1 history can teach us? Related Posts.

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Intelligent Waves Appoints Six Senior Advisory Board Members in Support of Strategic Market Expansion

CyberSecurity Insiders

Metz brings the experience of a combat commander who led over 120,000 coalition troops belonging to Multi-National Corps-Iraq, during OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM (2004-2005) combined with almost 40 years of commissioned service in the US Army. About Intelligent Waves, LLC.

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250 Million Microsoft customer support records and PII exposed online

Security Affairs

The unprotected archive was containing support requests submitted to the tech giant from 2005 to December 2019. The availability of detailed logs in the hand of crooks could expose Microsoft customers to the risk of Tech support scams. . ” reads the post published by Microsoft.

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A Short History of WordPress: The Plugin

SiteLock

The Plugin Architecture Suggestion. This system had two major benefits: There was no longer a need to edit core WordPress files, which meant that WordPress could be upgraded more easily without the risk of losing your customizations. The plugin system was the idea of Ryan Boren , who had quietly contributed to WordPress early on.