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Moss spores bolted to the ISS exterior laugh in the face of hard vacuum
Moss has been shown to survive one of the harshest environments imaginable: the exterior of the International Space Station (ISS).…
Years-old bugs in open source tool left every major cloud open to disruption
A series of "trivial-to-exploit" vulnerabilities in Fluent Bit, an open source log collection tool that runs in every major cloud and AI lab, was left open for years, giving attackers an exploit chain to completely disrupt cloud services and alter data.…
Intrusion at real estate finance biz sparks concern for big banks
Real estate finance business SitusAMC says thieves sneaked into its systems earlier this month and made off with confidential client data.…
Shai-Hulud worm returns, belches secrets to 25K GitHub repos
A self-propagating malware targeting node package managers (npm) is back for a second round, according to Wiz researchers who say that more than 25,000 developers had their secrets compromised within three days.…
Microsoft wedges tables into Notepad for some reason
Microsoft is shoveling yet more features into the venerable Windows Notepad. This time it's support for tables, with some AI enhancements lathered on top.…
NATO taps Google for air-gapped sovereign cloud
NATO has hired Google to provide "air-gapped" sovereign cloud services and AI in "completely disconnected, highly secure environments."…
FCC guts post-Salt Typhoon telco rules despite ongoing espionage risk
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has scrapped a set of telecom cybersecurity rules introduced after the Salt Typhoon espionage campaign, reversing course on measures designed to stop state-backed snoops from slipping back into America's networks.…
6G isn't even here yet but mobile industry wants triple the spectrum
The GSMA says 6G networks will need up to three times the spectrum currently allocated to mobile operators to meet anticipated demands for data.…
CISA orders feds to patch Oracle Identity Manager zero-day after signs of abuse
CISA has ordered US federal agencies to patch against an actively exploited Oracle Identity Manager (OIM) flaw within three weeks – a scramble made more urgent by evidence that attackers may have been abusing the bug months before a fix was released.…

