Friday Squid Blogging—18th Anniversary Post: New Species of Pygmy Squid Discovered
They’re Ryukyuan pygmy squid (Idiosepius kijimuna) and Hannan’s pygmy squid (Kodama jujutsu). The second one represents an entire new genus. As usual, you can also...
tkimg-1.4.16-1.fc39
FEDORA-2024-e812bddc51 Packages in this update: tkimg-1.4.16-1.fc39 Update description: Update to 1.4.16. Fixes CVE-2023-6277 (in bundled libtiff). Read More
tkimg-1.4.16-1.fc38
FEDORA-2024-43b9d9bff9 Packages in this update: tkimg-1.4.16-1.fc38 Update description: Update to 1.4.16. Fixes CVE-2023-6277 (in bundled libtiff). Read More
CertiK Twitter account hijacked by cryptocurrency scammer posing as Forbes journalist
Web3 security outfit CertiK has fallen foul of scammers, who managed to hijack its Twitter account to share a malicious link to a fake version...
python-flask-security-too-5.1.2-3.fc39
FEDORA-2024-f34963bef8 Packages in this update: python-flask-security-too-5.1.2-3.fc39 Update description: Backport fix for CVE-2023-49438. Read More
19 xDedic Cybercrime Market Users and Admins Face Prison
The dark web site’s infrastructure was taken down in 2019 following an international law enforcement operation Read More
Cyber-Attacks Drain $1.84bn from Web3 in 2023
A Certik report found there was $1.84bn in losses across 751 cybersecurity incidents targeting Web3 in 2023 Read More
USN-6549-4: Linux kernel (Intel IoTG) vulnerabilities
It was discovered that the USB subsystem in the Linux kernel contained a race condition while handling device descriptors in certain situations, leading to a...
NIST Fortifies Chatbots and Self-Driving Cars Against Digital Threats
This effort is the first step in NIST’s broader mission to support the development of trustworthy AI Read More
Improving Shor’s Algorithm
We don’t have a useful quantum computer yet, but we do have quantum algorithms. Shor’s algorithm has the potential to factor large numbers faster than...