Qualcomm on Tuesday disclosed nearly two dozen security vulnerabilities in its chipsets, including the company’s flagship suite of SnapDragon processor chips and affecting products that range from cars to powerline communications.
Synology, a networking and storage solutions provider based in Taiwan, has published two advisories before the end of last year notifying its customers that patches to several recently discovered bugs had been released, SecurityWeek reports.
U.S. Federal Communications Commissioner Brendan Carr said that the total TikTok ban in India was an "incredibly important precedent" that should be used by the U.S. and other countries amid concerns over the Chinese video sharing app's potential threat to national security, The Economic Times reports.
Chinese fraudsters part of the RedZei operation, also known as RedThief, have been targeting U.K.-based Chinese international students for more than a year, The Hacker News reports.
CISA: JasperReports flaws under active exploitation Two old security vulnerabilities impacting TIBCO Software's Java-based reporting and data analytics platform JasperReports are being leveraged in ongoing attacks, prompting their addition to the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, reports The Hacker News.
Threat actors could exploit a vulnerability in the Google Home smart speaker to facilitate the installation of a backdoor that would access the microphone feed to enable spying, BleepingComputer reports.
SecurityWeek reports that Rockwell Automation controllers have been impacted by four high-severity security flaws, which have already been covered by the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency in advisories last week.
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