The public ledger that underpins cryptocurrency, while enabling transparency, also exposes wealthy holders, known as whales, to identification and targeting by hackers and con artists.
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Google leaks details for Chromium bug that can turn browsers into bots
Chromium — the open-source browser that underpins Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, and Opera, among others — contains an unpatched vulnerability that attackers can exploit to execute JavaScript code persistently across browser restarts. As a result, the flaw can be used to hijack users’ browsers for distributed denial-of-service attacks, run crypto miners, and more. The vulnerability…
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NIST updates its DNS security guidance for the first time in over a decade
DNS infrastructure underpins nearly every network connection an organization makes, yet security configurations for it have gone largely unrevised at the federal guidance level for more than twelve years. NIST published SP 800-81r3, the Secure Domain Name System Deployment Guide, superseding a version that dates to 2013. The document covers three main areas: using DNS…