GitHub users targeted with dangerous malware attacks – here’s what we know
GitHub is being weaponized as malware infrastructure, report warns Emmenhtal and Amadey are part of…
Streeting orders review into mental health and ADHD diagnosis
Health Secretary Wes Streeting is to launch an independent review into rising demand for mental health, ADHD, and autism services in England. Streeting has previously suggested mental health conditions are being “overdiagnosed”, and the government has argued that increased pressure on the system has led to long waits for people with an urgent need for…
Nation-State Attack or Compromised Government? [Guest Diary]
[This is a Guest Diary by Jackie Nguyen, an ISC intern as part of the SANS.edu BACS program] The ISC internship didn’t just teach me about security, it changed how I thought about threats entirely. There’s something intriguing about watching live attacks materialize on your DShield Honeypot, knowing that somewhere across the world, an attacker…
Patients clogging up A&E with hiccups, sore throats and niggles
Patients are being warned not to clog up A&E with everyday niggles as NHS figures show thousands turned to hospitals for minor ailments such as hiccups and ingrowing toenails last winter. There were more than 200,000 A&E attendances in England from November to February for conditions that could have been dealt with elsewhere, according to…
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, December 4th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9724
ISC Stormcast For Thursday, December 4th, 2025 https://isc.sans.edu/podcastdetail/9724, (Thu, Dec 4th) Source link
Schools to teach about endometriosis, periods and cancer screenings
Jenny ReesWales health correspondent Athika Ahmed Molly Fenton and Athika Ahmed want better education on women’s health issues in school Young women say they were taught how to open a bank account in school, but not how to change a tampon or spot signs of cancer. “As a person from an ethnic minority background, in…
phpMyFAQ 2.9.8 – Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF)
# Exploit Title: phpMyFAQ 2.9.8 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) # Date: 2024-10-26 # Exploit Author: CodeSecLab # Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ # Software Link: https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ # Version: 2.9.8 # Tested on: Ubuntu Windows # CVE : CVE-2017-15735 PoC: While still logged in, open another browser window: …
phpMyFAQ 2.9.8 – Cross-Site Request Forgery(CSRF)
# Exploit Title: phpMyFAQ 2.9.8 – Cross-Site Request Forgery(CSRF) # Date: 2024-10-26 # Exploit Author: CodeSecLab # Vendor Homepage: https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ # Software Link: https://github.com/thorsten/phpMyFAQ # Version: 2.9.8 # Tested on: Ubuntu Windows # CVE : CVE-2017-15734 PoC: Get http://phpmyfaq/admin/index.php?action=clear-visits Reproduction: While still logged in, open another browser window to access the link. …
Staying ahead of censors in 2025: What we’ve learned from fighting censorship in Iran and Russia
From internet blackouts in Iran to Russia’s evolving censorship tactics, 2025 has tested Tor’s anti-censorship tools like never before. These are the moments where the work of Tor’s anti-censorship team is more important than ever, to fulfill our mission of preserving connectivity between users in affected regions and the rest of the world. In this…
Attempts to Bypass CDNs – SANS Internet Storm Center
Currently, in order to provide basic DDoS protection and filter aggressive bots, some form of Content Delivery Network (CDN) is usually the simplest and most cost-effective way to protect a web application. In a typical setup, DNS is used to point clients to the CDN, and the CDN will then forward the request to the…
An AI Dark Horse Is Rewriting the Rules of Game Design
The video game Valorant, a fast-paced team-based shooter, has recently become a testing ground for a promising new direction in artificial intelligence research. The game’s developers at Riot Games (a Tencent subsidiary) are using 3D-native AI models to prototype new characters, scenes, and storylines, according to a researcher familiar with the company’s efforts who spoke…
