The M4 Macs have one flaw that may make you reconsider buying one
I recently wrote about the M4 Mac’s compelling lineup and it’s a great time to buy a Mac. However, one type of user will want to hold off on a purchase. According to Howard Oakley…
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Hacker says they banned ‘thousands’ of Call of Duty gamers by abusing anti-cheat flaw
In October, video game giant Activision said it had fixed a bug in its anti-cheat system that affected “a small number of legitimate player accounts,” who were getting banned because of the bug. In reality,…
Update Firefox 131 now to patch a critical zero-day security flaw
Yesterday, Mozilla released the Firefox 131.0.2 update in response to reports that Firefox users are actively being hit by a zero-day vulnerability in the browser. Surprisingly, this is the first zero-day vulnerability discovered in Firefox…
CISA issues warning about another Ivanti flaw under active attack
Hackers are exploiting yet another vulnerability in one of Ivanti’s widely used enterprise products, the U.S. government’s cybersecurity agency CISA warned in a fresh alert this week. The remote code execution flaw in Ivanti Endpoint…
Researcher finds flaw in a16z website that exposed some company data
At the end of June, a security researcher found a vulnerability in a web app used by a16z, one of the most powerful and influential Silicon Valley venture capital firms, which exposed some data about…
Hackers could create traffic jams thanks to flaw in traffic light controller, researcher says
A security researcher says he found a flaw in a traffic light controller that would potentially allow malicious hackers to change the lights and create traffic jams. Andrew Lemon, a researcher at cybersecurity firm Red…
ChatGPT Mac security flaw raises red flags ahead of Apple Intelligence integration
In an embarrassing development so soon after Apple’s AI announcements at WWDC, it emerged this week that the ChatGPT app for Mac has been failing to sandbox conversations, meaning the data can be easily accessed…
Zero-day flaw in Check Point VPNs is ‘extremely easy’ to exploit
Cybersecurity company Check Point says attackers are exploiting a zero-day vulnerability in its enterprise VPN products to break into the corporate networks of its customers. The technology maker hasn’t said yet who is responsible for…
Maximum-severity GitLab flaw allowing account hijacking under active exploitation
A maximum severity vulnerability that allows hackers to hijack GitLab accounts with no user interaction required is now under active exploitation, federal government officials warned as data showed that thousands of users had yet to…
US government says security flaw in Chirp Systems’ app lets anyone remotely control smart home locks
A vulnerability in a smart access control system used in thousands of U.S. rental homes allows anyone to remotely control any lock in an affected home. But Chirp Systems, the company that makes the system,…