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Facebook locks out 1,500 fake accounts used by cyber-spy firms to snoop on people, alerts 50k potential targets

Facebook successor Meta on Thursday said it canceled 1,500 social media accounts used by seven surveillance-for-hire firms to conduct online attacks against government critics and members of civil society.…

Over Log4j? VMware has another critical flaw for you to patch

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RAF shoots down 'terrorist drone' over US-owned special ops base in Syria

The RAF has scored its first air-to-air "kill" – where an aircraft downs an enemy aircraft – for almost 40 years after shooting down a drone over Syria.…

CISA issues emergency directive to fix Log4j vulnerability

The US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday escalated its call to fix the Apache Log4j vulnerability with an emergency directive requiring federal agencies to take corrective action by 5 pm EST on December 23, 2021.…

US distrust of Huawei linked in part to malicious software update in 2012

Bad things come in threes: Apache reveals <i>another</i> Log4J bug

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) has revealed a third bug in its Log4 Java-based open-source logging library Log4j.…

VMware 2FA flaw can divulge that vital second credential to malicious actors

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Microsoft fixes Windows DRM video playback issues for some users

Microsoft says it has "partially" resolved a known issue that caused problems when trying to play DRM-protected video in Blu-ray/DVD/Digital TV applications. [...]

Microsoft fixes Windows DRM video playback issues for some users

Microsoft says it has "partially" resolved a known issue that caused problems when trying to play DRM-protected video in Blu-ray/DVD/Digital TV applications. [...]