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Microsoft is rewriting core Windows libraries in the Rust programming language, and the more memory-safe code is already reaching developers. David “dwizzle” Weston, director of OS security for Windows, announced the arrival of Rust in the operating system’s kernel at Read More …
The Medusa ransomware gang has put online what it claims is a massive leak of internal Microsoft materials, including Bing and Cortana source code. “This leak is of more interest to programmers, since it contains the source codes of the Read More …
The chunk of internal source code Twitter released the other week contains a “shadow ban” vulnerability serious enough to earn its own CVE, as it can be exploited to bury someone’s account of sight “without recourse.” The issue was discovered Read More …
Someone on a criminal forum is selling what they claim is data on all Telus employees, as well as the Canadian telecommunications company’s GitHub software code repositories. In response to an IT World Canada reporter’s query about the posting, Telus Read More …
Intruders copied source code belonging to Okta after breaching the identity management company’s GitHub repositories. Okta was alerted by Microsoft-owned GitHub earlier this month of “suspicious access” to its code repositories and determined that miscreants copied code associated with the Read More …
Source code for the BIOS used with Intel’s 12th-gen Core processors has been leaked online, possibly including details of undocumented model-specific registers (MSRs) and even the private signing key for Intel’s Boot Guard security technology. The source code was apparently Read More …
Password management firm LastPass was hacked two weeks ago, enabling threat actors to steal the company’s source code and proprietary technical information. The disclosure comes after BleepingComputer learned of the breach from insiders last week and reached out to the Read More …
The Lapsus$ extortion crew has turned its attention to identity platform Okta and published screenshots purportedly showing the group gaining access to the company’s internals. The incident follows the group’s claim over the weekend that it had made off with Read More …
A Ukrainian security researcher has leaked newer malware source code from the Conti ransomware operation in revenge for the cybercriminals siding with Russia on the invasion of Ukraine. Conti is an elite ransomware gang run by Russian-based threat actors. With Read More …
The attack on NVIDIA continues, this time with an alleged leak of the source code for the company’s DLSS tech. A ransomware group known as Lapsus has allegedly shared NVIDIA’s DLSS source code as part of a cyberattack. The group Read More …
