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The most popular and widely known cryptocurrency, Bitcoin, has reached a new record worth today, surpassing $99,000. It is just shy of a $100k valuation as it maintains strong popularity and trading amongst users and investors. Track all markets on TradingView Just this year, Bitcoin has gone up over 120%. With a valuation of around…

Update your iOS, Mac and Vision devices as Apple has released updates to a critical vulnerability affecting different systems and software. They’re tracked as CVE-2024-44308, which presented a flaw in the JavaScriptCore, a framework for Javascript commonly used on websites, and CVE-2024-44309, which was a flaw in WebKit, the open-source web rendering engine that powers…

A several vulnerability has been discovered in a popular WordPress plugin used by millions of websites. Discovered by Wordfence researchers and dubbed CVE-2024-10924, the critical vulnerability affects the Really Simple Security (also known as Really Simple SSL) plugin. Plugin versions affected are 9.0.0 and 9.1.1.1 and could impact millions of websites using this plugin. The…

Microsoft has released its monthly update, with new changes and improvements to the Windows experience. In the new 24H2 update, Windows updates will now be significally faster and use less CPU power. The installation and restart process will be over 30% faster, too. Along with the faster update process, which is automatic and doesn’t need…

Recent data leaks online by hackers have caused concern for Cisco. The hackers early last week on October 14 announced a Cisco breach on a popular hacking forum. The data was from their DevHub resource center site, and claimed to obtain sensitive files like source code, confidential docs, keys, and other types of info, including…

VMware has released software updates for a vCenter Server vulnerability that could allow remote code execution from malicious packets. The vulnerabilities, (CVE-2024-38812, CVE-2024-38813), were considered critical with high CVSS scores. Versions affected that require an update are: Find update information and downloads on their security advisory notification.

Internet Archive, one of the largest online libraries of digital content and creator of the Wayback Machine which has collections of billions of websites over the years, has confirmed a recent data breach that exposed the data of millions of users. This occurs as they’ve been rebuilding their website amongst recent DDos (Distributed Denial of…

Wiz, a cloud security provider, has discovered two vulnerabilities that allow privilege escalation on Ubuntu, a Linux distribution variant. These vulnerabilities can impact users from Ubuntu versions 18.04 LTS (Bionic Beaver) to the most recent versions. This includes 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu) and 23.04 (Lunar Lobster). The vulnerabilities were found in OverlayFS, a modern file system…

LastPass, a widely-used and recognized password manager from LogMeIn, recently made an announcement of a recent security breach. On their official blog, they acknowledged unusual activity within a third-party cloud storage service and stated steps they are currently taking. According to their blog post, a breacher was able to gain unauthorized access using information from…

Google has announced the release of Google Chrome version 107. This new Chrome, available for desktop and mobile (Android, iOS), brings many security and performance updates such as HEVC hardware decoding which may help with performance and security patches. HEVC hardware decoding is available which may help with performance for graphics and video. About 14…