Microsoft today released patches for 67 vulnerabilities. 10 of these vulnerabilities are rated critical. One vulnerability has already been exploited and another vulnerability has been publicly disclosed before today. Notable Vulnerabilities: CVE-2025-33053: WebDAV remote code execution vulnerability. This vulnerability has already been exploited. Microsoft rates it as important. This affects the client part of WebDAV,…
Apple is in the strange position of having to slowly improve a product while also trying to reinvent it. Some say their success requires them making small, evolutionary steps seem revolutionary. I don’t quite agree with that. As iPhones become better and better over the years, small steps eventually bring tip-over points, when technology starts…
AI video is on another level When we tested the energy demands of various models, we found the energy required to produce even a low-quality, five-second video to be pretty shocking: It was 42,000 times more than the amount needed for a chatbot answer a question about a recipe, and enough to power a microwave…
A passing star could send planets scattering Triff/Shutterstock Stars whizzing by our solar system could cause more havoc than astronomers previously thought, from sending Pluto’s orbit haywire to forcing Mercury to fly into the sun – or even catastrophically altering Earth’s orbit and climate. The overall risk of these events is still low, but the…
Ronald Reagan and his fellow Republicans once invoked what they referred to as “welfare queens” as they made the case for reining in social spending in the 1970s and 1980s, painting a picture of unscrupulous women bilking the system to finance a sumptuous lifestyle. Now as they try to justify cuts to Medicaid, congressional Republicans…
Topline Olympic gymnast Simone Biles apologized to former collegiate swimmer and right-wing activist Riley Gaines on Tuesday for a personal comment she made as the two argued over a championship-winning high school softball player last weekend, though Biles maintained children “should never be the focus of criticism of a flawed system they have no control…
Joshua Nevett Political reporter PA Rough sleeping will be decriminalised next year under government plans to scrap a 200-year-old law. Ministers are planning to scrap the Vagrancy Act, which outlaws rough sleeping in England and Wales. The law was introduced in 1824 to deal with rising homelessness, but Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has called…
John KeimJun 10, 2025, 09:37 AM ET Close John Keim covers the Washington Commanders for ESPN. He joined ESPN in 2013 after a stint with the Washington Post. He started covering the team in 1994 for the Journal Newspapers and later for the Washington Examiner. He has authored/co-authored four books. You can also listen to…
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Key Findings Check Point Research (CPR) discovered a new campaign conducted by the APT group Stealth Falcon. The attack used a .url file that exploited a zero-day vulnerability (CVE-2025-33053) to execute malware from an actor-controlled WebDAV server. CVE-2025-33053 allows remote code execution through manipulation of the working directory. Following CPR’s responsible disclosure, Microsoft today, June…
