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  I’d make a lot of changes if I was King of the fantasy football world. But my No. 1 priority would be eliminating the default rankings from the online draft applets. These default rankings are the enemy of hard work and preparation. If the defaults are efficient, owners can just show up the day of the draft, use the …

Russia-linked attackers found and exploited a high-severity WinRAR vulnerability before the maintainers of the Windows file archiver issued a fix. The bug, tracked as CVE-2025-8088, is a path-traversal flaw that affects the Windows version of the decompression tool. It received an 8.4 CVSS rating and, according to WinRAR, has been patched in the newest version, 7.13, released on July 31. …

ESET researchers have discovered a previously unknown vulnerability in WinRAR, being exploited in the wild by Russia-aligned group RomCom. This is at least the third time that RomCom has been caught exploiting a significant zero-day vulnerability in the wild. Previous examples include the abuse of CVE-2023-36884 via Microsoft Word in June 2023, and the combined vulnerabilities assigned CVE‑2024‑9680 chained with …

Chinese Hackers Are Exploiting Flaws in Widely Used Software, Microsoft Says  The New York Times Disrupting active exploitation of on-premises SharePoint vulnerabilities  Microsoft US Nuclear Weapons Agency Breached in Microsoft SharePoint Hack  Bloomberg.com Agencies face tight deadline to mitigate SharePoint vulnerability  Federal News Network Microsoft knew of SharePoint security flaw but failed to effectively patch it, timeline shows  Reuters Source link

Security researchers at Google and Microsoft say they have evidence that hackers backed by China are exploiting a zero-day bug in Microsoft SharePoint, as companies around the world scramble to patch the flaw. The bug, known officially as CVE-2025-53770 and discovered last weekend, allows hackers to steal sensitive private keys from self-hosted versions of SharePoint, a software server widely used …

The hackers behind the initial wave of attacks exploiting a zero-day in Microsoft SharePoint servers have so far primarily targeted government organizations, according to researchers and news reports. Over the weekend, U.S. cybersecurity agency CISA published an alert, warning that hackers were exploiting a previously unknown bug — known as a “zero-day” — in Microsoft’s enterprise data management product SharePoint. …

In 2023, an engineer went to an amusement park with his family. They had a stroller, and one of the parents stayed behind to keep an eye on it while the others went on a ride. When they got off, the park’s app detected that someone had been waiting, sent a notification, and let them in via the fast-track, skipping …