Digital initiatives across NSW gain funding boost from 2021-22 Budget
The New South Wales government handed down its 2021-22 Budget on Tuesday, revealing that digital initiatives across the state will receive handsome handouts. Treasurer...
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Linux System Service Bug Allows You to Gain Root Access – E Hacking News
An authentication bypass vulnerability in the polkit auth system service, which is installed by default on many recent Linux distributions, allows unprivileged attackers...
7-Year-Old Polkit Flaw Lets Unprivileged Linux Users Gain Root Access
A seven-year-old privilege escalation vulnerability discovered in the polkit system service could be exploited by a malicious unprivileged local attacker to bypass authorization and...
Hackers Using a Windows OS Feature to Evade Firewall and Gain Persistence
A novel technique adopted by attackers finds ways to use Microsoft’s Background Intelligent Transfer Service (BITS) so as to deploy malicious payloads on Windows...
Vulnerabilities Can Allow Attackers to Remotely Gain Control of Weintek HMIs
A cybersecurity researcher who specializes in industrial control systems (ICS) has identified three types of critical vulnerabilities in products made by human-machine interface (HMI)...
Email Scam Under the Name of IRS Try to gain EFIN of Tax Preparers – E Hacking News
A lot of people are familiar with the US Internal Revenue Service (IRS) scam letters about the tax season that are phishing for...
10-years-old Sudo bug lets Linux users gain root-level access
A major vulnerability impacting a large chunk of the Linux ecosystem has been patched today in Sudo, an app that allows admins to delegate...
Threat Actors Bypassed MFA to Gain Access to Cloud Service Accounts – E Hacking News
The United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has alerted the firms by stating that cyber attackers are bypassing multi-factor authentication (MFA) protocols...
Iranian Hackers Attack Israel Water Facility, Gain Access To HMI Systems – E Hacking News
An Iranian hacking group gained passage to an unsafe Israeli water facility ICS. The hackers also posted the video on the internet to...
Iranian hackers impersonate journalists to set up WhatsApp calls and gain victims’ trust
Special feature Cyberwar and the Future of Cybersecurity Today’s security threats have expanded in scope and seriousness. There can now be millions — or...