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New Blast-RADIUS attack breaks 30-year-old protocol used in networks everywhere

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) One of the most widely used network protocols is vulnerable to a newly discovered attack that can allow adversaries to gain control over a range of environments, including industrial controllers, telecommunications services, ISPs, and all manner of enterprise networks. Short for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service, RADIUS harkens back to the...

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The president ordered a board to probe a massive Russian cyberattack. It never did.

Enlarge (credit: Avishek Das/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images) This story was originally published by ProPublica. Investigating how the world’s largest software provider handles the security of its own ubiquitous products. After Russian intelligence launched one of the most devastating cyber espionage attacks in history against US government agencies, the Biden administration set up a new...

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384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm

Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) More than 384,000 websites are linking to a site that was caught last week performing a supply-chain attack that redirected visitors to malicious sites, researchers said. For years, the JavaScript code, hosted at polyfill[.]com, was a legitimate open source project that allowed older browsers to handle advanced functions that weren’t natively...