Tag: vulnerability
Taiwan earthquake serves as a reminder of the vulnerability of microchip supply chains
The 7.4 magnitude earthquake that struck Taiwan on April 3 risks disrupting the production of semiconductors, a specialty of the island located in the southeast of China. Close to the…
GitHub automates vulnerability remediation with AI
Image: GitHub. GitHub unveiled a feature last week that automatically detects vulnerabilities in source code and suggests fixes. According to the blog post announcing Code Scanning Autofix, published last Wednesday,…
Linux: vulnerability in Shim exposes most distributions to attacks
Image: Andrew Brookes/Getty Images. A new security vulnerability has been discovered, which could affect Linux systems. This time, it’s a critical vulnerability in Shim, an open-source bootloader that links a…
this vulnerability in a plugin exposes millions of sites to the risk of hacking
A critical vulnerability in a popular WordPress plugin has been exploited by hackers, who have launched thousands of attacks over the past few days. A plugin, called Better Search Replace,…
Microsoft protocol disabled by default after discovery of vulnerability exploited by cybercriminals
The protocol was supposed to make life easier for users. But it also made it easier for cybercriminals… The publisher Microsoft finally announced at the end of December the deactivation…
“With feminist self-defense, the objective is to break women’s feeling of vulnerability”
Mathilde Blézat, in Maseille in 2022. MOHAMED BOUKRAIA Mathilde Blézat, is the author of For feminist self-defense (Editions of the last letter, 2022). She returns to this specific approach to…
Luke Dashjr denies adding Bitcoin Ordinals to US vulnerability list
At the start of the year, the network Bitcoin witnessed the birth of a new protocol: Ordinals. In practice, these allow data to be written on a satoshi, via a…
Ethereum: Lido discovers a vulnerability that threatens validators
On the verge of disaster. Lido Finance is a so-called liquid staking protocol on Ethereum. Thus, it brings together in a decentralized manner the stakers who deposit their ETH and…
Storms reveal the vulnerability of telecom networks
An Enedis technician repairs a power line damaged by falling trees during storm Domingos, in Salleboeuf (Gironde), November 7, 2023. CHRISTOPHE ARCHAMBAULT / AFP A week after the passage of…
20 years of Patch Tuesday: a look back at the growth and impact of Microsoft’s vulnerability problem
Two decades ago, Microsoft inaugurated Patch Tuesday with the aim of “reducing the burden on IT administrators by introducing an element of predictability and greater management”. The aim was to…
Bitcoin Lightning Network Flaw: Legitimate, but not critical vulnerability
A not so critical flaw – At the start of the week, the Bitcoin’s Lightning Network has been in the spotlights. In fact, the developer Antoine Riard revealed the presence…
Bitcoin Lightning: Vulnerability discovered in the network
The Bitcoin Lightning network enables lightning-fast BTC transfers – offchain. Now a security hole has been discovered. Source: BTC ECHO The post Bitcoin Lightning: Vulnerability discovered in the network…