When Twitter confirmed that a hacker exploited a significant security vulnerability, it set off alarm bells not just within the company, but across the wider digital landscape. Such incidents underscore the growing concerns around data privacy, cybersecurity, and the responsibility that tech...
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At the recent BSides Las Vegas 2024 conference, Bård Aase delivered an insightful presentation titled "That's Not My Name," focusing on the complexities of character encoding and its impact on digital identity representation. Drawing from his personal experiences with a name containing non-ASCII...
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Microsoft Office, a mainstay of productivity environments worldwide, has once again come under scrutiny due to the emergence of a critical security vulnerability identified as CVE-2025-30377. This recently disclosed flaw is described as a “use-after-free” vulnerability, which allows unauthorized...
On November 12, 2024, the Microsoft Security Response Center (MSRC) issued alarming information about a newly discovered vulnerability in Microsoft Excel, identified as CVE-2024-49030. This flaw poses a severe risk to users, as it allows remote code execution—meaning an attacker can potentially...
The recent discovery of the CVE-2024-38030 vulnerability highlights an important security challenge that Windows users may face. This vulnerability pertains to a spoofing issue associated with Windows Themes, which could potentially be exploited by an attacker to mislead a user about the source...