September 2023

GitHub fixes race condition that could have led to ‘repojacking’

GitHub has fixed a race condition vulnerability in its repository creation and user renaming operations that could have enabled threat actors to perform what is known as a repojacking attack. Discovered and disclosed by researchers from Checkmarx, had the flaw been exploited, it could have been used to take control of code repositories and hijack…

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GCHQ breached privacy rights of IT professional and security researcher, human rights court rules

Britain’s spy agencies violated the privacy rights of two foreign nationals living outside the UK as part of the UK’s programme of bulk surveillance, the European Court of Human Rights ruled. The court upheld a complaint from an IT professional and a security and privacy researcher living outside the UK that GCHQ had breached their…

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Nintendo Direct Announced For Tomorrow With 40 Minutes Of Games Coming This Winter

Nintendo has consistently been a fan of airing Nintendo Directs during September, with the usual September Directs being some of the most exciting of the year. And the company will continue that streak in 2023 as it has announced a Nintendo Direct will air tomorrow, September 14. The company revealed this on Twitter today, stating…

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AMD could be shifting to focus on the mid-range GPU market

Looking at the graphics card market, it’s pretty clear – even to a casual observer – that AMD has ceded a significant amount of ground to Nvidia in the high-end arena. The RTX 4090 is arguably the best graphics card ever made, and Nvidia still dominates the PC gaming space as per the Steam Hardware Survey.Now,…

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ExtraHop open sources 16 million rows of threat domain data

Cloud-native network detection and response (NDR) specialist ExtraHop hopes to give security researchers and defenders a little extra help when it comes to defending against malware and botnet operations, by making its entire 16 million row domain generated by algorithm (DGA) dataset publicly available on GitHub. So-called DGAs are programs that use algorithmic generation to…

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New Fortnite Update Includes Shoto Todoroki And More My Hero Academia

Fortnite Battle Royale’s v26.10 update is now live in-game and it brings with it some returning My Hero Academia items, three new heroes, and a new Shoto Todoroki-inspired item. Alongside Todoroki, Eijiro Kirishima and Mina Ashido are in the Item Shop available for purchase.   With Todoroki on the island, developer Epic Games has added…

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Cisco tightens link between observability and security

Cisco has updated its full-stack observability platform with the latest version of Cisco Secure Application, designed to help IT departments secure development and deployment of cloud native applications Cisco said the product connects business context with security findings, bringing together application performance data with security intelligence from Cisco’s existing security products. It also offers business…

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Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes zero-days in Word and Streaming Service

As autumn begins and the thoughts of security teams turn to mists and mellow fruitfulness, Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday update arrives with the surety of the turning leaves, and this month there are two actively exploited zero-days to consider, and five critically scored vulnerabilities worth attention, out of a grand total of over 60 newly squashed…

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NCSC and ICO sign MoU to forge deeper collaborative links

National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) chief executive Lindy Cameron and information commissioner John Edwards have signed a joint memorandum of understanding (MoU) to establish deeper and more effective collaboration between the two organisations, recognising that while both have distinct niches, there are some areas where they could align their work, and “deconflict” on others. Potential…

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