Month: July 2024

Organizations worldwide are reporting major outages that appear to be caused by a bad update pushed out by cybersecurity giant CrowdStrike (NASDAQ: CRWD). CrowdStrike launched an investigation after receiving widespread reports of Windows hosts experiencing a Blue Screen of Death (BSOD). In the latest update provided at the time of writing the company said it’s in […]

Google on Tuesday announced security updates for Chrome 126 that address ten vulnerabilities, including eight high-severity bugs reported by external researchers. Despite Google’s efforts to eliminate memory safety bugs in Chrome, most of the externally reported security defects are memory issues that could potentially lead to a sandbox escape and remote code execution. The new […]

More than 310 gigabytes of data from spyware maker mSpy, including 2.4 million unique emails, was leaked online in June, and obtained by data breach notification site Have I Been Pwned. The data, reportedly leaked online by hacktivists, includes 142 Gb of user data such as email addresses, IP addresses, and names, obtained from support tickets filed […]

The New York Times reported on July 4, 2024, that OpenAI suffered an undisclosed breach in early 2023. The NYT notes that the attacker did not access the systems housing and building the AI, but did steal discussions from an employee forum. OpenAI did not publicly disclose the incident nor inform the FBI because, it claims, no […]