A chill just swept through the IT department, and it’s not from the air conditioning—Microsoft’s waving the red flag over a critical flaw in Windows 11 version 24H2, prompting the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) to blast a security alert reminiscent of a fire drill, minus the free...
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It’s another day in the Windows world, and just when you thought you could quietly sip your coffee and ignore those “critical update” pop-ups, the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) barrels in with a fresh cybersecurity advisory. This time, the culprit is a critical security flaw lurking...
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If your fingers ever found themselves idling over the Ctrl + Shift + Esc combination, summoning the digital oracle known as Task Manager, you might have noticed a cryptic little process called AggregatorHost.exe peeking out from the labyrinth of background services. If you’re anything like most...
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In a year when AI is penning limericks, coffee machines are joining botnets, and your car wants to update its firmware more often than your laptop, the CISA has dropped a fresh batch of seven advisories aimed straight at the pulse of Industrial Control Systems (ICS). If you’re in charge of...
You might want to sit down for this one: ALBEDO Telecom’s Net.Time – that time-honored keeper of seconds and sync for mission-critical sectors all around the world – has been caught out by a vulnerability that toes the line between “incredibly simple” and “potentially disastrous.” And while its...
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Nothing says "welcome to the future" quite like plugging in your car and worrying that somewhere, someone in their pajamas is poking around your charger’s secrets from thousands of miles away. That’s the scenario Vestel AC Charger users find themselves in after a recent vulnerability was...
It probably wasn’t on your 2025 bingo card to revisit a discontinued home automation relic threatened by remote hackers with a penchant for credential snatching, but here we are: the Schneider Electric Wiser Home Controller WHC-5918A is back in the limelight—and not for a firmware upgrade. If...
Sit down and brace for another day in cybersecurity paradise, because Siemens TeleControl Server Basic is serving up a piping-hot vulnerability that pairs well with lukewarm coffee and a healthy dose of skepticism. For IT pros wrangling industrial control systems, this isn’t just another...
It started with an alert that sliced through the digital silence of Syria’s wired population—a warning so electrified it might as well have been delivered on a scroll, rolled out with sirens and flashing police lights. The Syrian Telecommunications Authority, sounding the alarms like a battalion...
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Security warnings can sometimes feel like the digital equivalent of that friend who’s always convinced they’ve forgotten to lock the front door. But this time, you’d be wise to double-check those bolts and deadlocks. As the world reels from a new spike in cyberattacks targeting the very tool we...
Inside the ABB M2M Gateway Vulnerabilities: A Deep Dive into Risk and Remedies
In the rapidly evolving landscape of industrial control systems (ICS), security vulnerabilities have become critical concerns—not just for specialized engineers but also for IT administrators and cybersecurity...
Original release date: October 14, 2021
Summary
Immediate Actions WWS Facilities Can Take Now to Protect Against Malicious Cyber Activity
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• If you use RDP, secure and monitor it.
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Note: This advisory uses the MITRE...
Original release date: August 31, 2021
Summary
Immediate Actions You Can Take Now to Protect Against Ransomware
• Make an offline backup of your data.
• Do not click on Link Removed.
• If you use RDP, secure and monitor it.
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Original release date: February 11, 2021
Summary
On February 5, 2021, unidentified cyber actors obtained unauthorized access to the supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system at a U.S. drinking water treatment plant. The unidentified actors used the SCADA system’s software to...
Original release date: August 01, 2015
Systems Affected
Microsoft Windows Systems, Adobe Flash Player, and Linux
Overview
Between June and July 2015, the United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (US-CERT) received reports of multiple, ongoing and likely evolving, email-based phishing...