CVE-2021-1522

The Apple AirTag has been available for just over a week. Since then, we have seen a user rebuilding an AirTag as a thinner card that fits into wallets and also learned that it’s “frighteningly easy” to stalk using the item tracker. Now, a security researcher was able to hack the accessory, modifying its NFC…

The US State Department has reportedly suffered a cyberattack in recent weeks, prompting concerns about possible serious breach, FoxNews reported. Currently, the extent of the breach is unclear, and it’s also unknown who may have been behind the cyberattack. According to FoxNews, it is believed that the attack took place “a couple of weeks ago.”…

March 19, 2021 by Joseph Fitsanakis FINLAND’S INTELLIGENCE AGENCY HAS identified a hacker group with ties to the Chinese state as the culprit of an attack of “exceptional” magnitude and intensity that targeted the Finnish Parliament last year. The attack was reported in December 2020, but had been going on for several weeks prior to…

Attackers are exploiting a recently-patched, critical vulnerability in F5 devices that have not yet been updated. The unauthenticated remote command execution flaw (CVE-2021-22986) exists in the F5 BIG-IP and BIG-IQ enterprise networking infrastructure, and could allow attackers to take full control over a vulnerable system.

On Jan. 15, a hacker tried to poison a water treatment plant that served parts of the San Francisco Bay Area. It didn’t seem hard. The hacker had the username and password for a former employee’s TeamViewer account, a popular program that lets users remotely control their computers, according to a private report compiled by the…

How private are Android apps? Security researchers discovered 23 mobile applications leaking the personal data of their users, and making it public to the open internet. According to a new Check Point research, chat messages, emails, locations, passwords, photos, and other personal details associated with several Android apps can be accessed by anyone with internet…