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Man pleads guilty to hacking networks to pitch security services
A Kansas City man has pleaded guilty to hacking multiple organizations to advertise his cybersecurity services, the U.S. Department of Justice announced on Wednesday. 32-year-old Nicholas Michael Kloster was indicted last year for hacking into the networks of three organizations in 2024, including a health club and a Missouri nonprofit corporation. According to court documents, Kloster accessed the systems of…
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Cisco warns of max severity RCE flaws in Identity Services Engine
Cisco has published a bulletin to warn about two critical, unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities affecting Cisco Identity Services Engine (ISE) and the Passive Identity Connector (ISE-PIC). The flaws, tracked under CVE-2025-20281 and CVE-2025-20282, are rated with max severity (CVSS score: 10.0). The first impacts ISE and ISE-PIC versions 3.4 and 3.3, while the second affects only version 3.4.…
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Hackers abuse Microsoft ClickOnce and AWS services for stealthy attacks
A sophisticated malicious campaign that researchers call OneClik has been leveraging Microsoft’s ClickOnce software deployment tool and custom Golang backdoors to compromise organizations within the energy, oil, and gas sectors. The hackers rely on legitimate AWS cloud services (AWS, Cloudfront, API Gateway, Lambda) to keep the command and control (C2) infrastructure hidden. ClickOnce is a deployment technology from Microsoft that…
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Global Microsoft 365 outage disrupts Teams and Exchange services – Computerworld
Manish Rawat, analyst, TechInsights, said industry estimates suggest that IT downtime can cost mid- to large-sized enterprises between $100,000 and $500,000 per hour, depending on their sector and the criticality of operations. “For large organizations, even a brief 2–3 hour outage could result in millions in lost productivity, reputational harm, and serious operational setbacks, especially in high-stakes sectors like finance,…
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A Bunch of Websites, Online Games, and Cloud Services Are Down Right Now
If you’re finding some websites slow or totally unresponsive, you’re not alone. Much of the internet is currently impacted by outages. Downdetector, a site that tracks user reports of site outages, is reporting dozens sites and services that are impacted in some way. These platforms certainly run the gamut: There are games, including Rocket League, Pokémon Go, and Dragon Ball;…
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Five Services That Will Remove Your Personal Information From Data Broker Sites
We’re living in a post-privacy world. Every time you leave the house you’re probably on camera. Every time you turn on your television, your viewing habits are being logged. And using the internet in any way is basically just spraying a firehose of your personal information at data brokers—companies that compile your personal information and sell it to marketing companies,…
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Cisco patches critical flaw affecting Identity Services Engine
Cisco has issued patches for three vulnerabilities affecting its Identity Services Engine (ISE) and Customer Collaboration Platform (CCP) services. The three flaws, tracked as CVE-2025-20286, CVE-2025-20130, and CVE-2025-20129, included critical vulnerability with a rating of 9.9/10 which also included a public proof of concept exploit. Highest on the list priorities for customers was CVE-2025-20286, which was detailed as a ‘static…
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Is the future of business AI specialized services?
FluidStack is a name that most organizations may not be familiar with, unless they’re operating in the scientific research industry. Nevertheless, the experiences and business model of the company could offer lessons for multiple verticals. The company was founded by César Maklary and Gary Wu and is one of the many science and technology businesses spun out from Oxford University.…
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Apple Music Just Made Switching From Other Services Much Easier
Apple Music is introducing a new feature to jump ship from your current music streaming provider, and seamlessly transfer your music, artists, and playlists to Apple Music. This feature is demonstrated on this Apple support page, which discusses the steps to transfer your music. The option is available within the Apple Music app, and you can start the process from…
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Police takes down six DDoS-for-hire services, arrests admins
Polish authorities have detained four suspects linked to six DDoS-for-hire platforms, believed to have facilitated thousands of attacks targeting schools, government services, businesses, and gaming platforms worldwide since 2022. Such platforms are often marketed as legitimate testing tools on the dark web and hacking forums, but are mainly used to disrupt online services, servers, and websites by flooding them with traffic in distributed…
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