Apple Warns of 3 New Vulnerabilities Affecting iPhone, iPad, and Mac Devices

Feb 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananEndpoint Security / Software Update Apple has revised the security advisories it released last month to include three new vulnerabilities impacting iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. The first flaw is a race condition in the Crash Reporter component (CVE-2023-23520) that could enable a malicious actor to read arbitrary files as root. The iPhone…

Black entrepreneurs ring Nasdaq bell

Nasdaq on Friday hosted the New Voices Foundation and Essence Ventures, inviting some of the most prominent Black professionals within the venture and startup space behind the podium to help open the markets. Though this isn’t the first time Nasdaq has honored Black History Month, some who were there commented that “history was made.” And…

Attackers Flood NPM Repository with Over 15,000 Spam Packages Containing Phishing Links

Feb 22, 2023Ravie LakshmananOpen Source / Supply Chain Attack In what’s a continuing assault on the open source ecosystem, over 15,000 spam packages have flooded the npm repository in an attempt to distribute phishing links. “The packages were created using automated processes, with project descriptions and auto-generated names that closely resembled one another,” Checkmarx researcher…