Tag Archives: Vulnerability

A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time

A global coral phylogeny reveals resilience and vulnerability through deep time

Hoegh-Guldberg, O. et al. Coral reefs under rapid climate change and ocean acidification. Science 318, 1737–1742 (2007). Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Carpenter, K. E. et al. One-third of reef-building corals face elevated extinction risk from climate change and local impacts. Science 321, 560–563 (2008). Article  ADS  CAS  PubMed  Google Scholar  Knowlton, N. Coral reef biodiversity-habitat size matters. Science …

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TARmageddon Strikes: High Profile Security Vulnerability In Popular Rust Library

TARmageddon Strikes: High Profile Security Vulnerability In Popular Rust Library

Going public today is CVE-2025-62518, or better known by the name given by the security researchers involved: TARmageddon. The TARmageddon vulnerability affects the popular async-tar Rust library and its various forks like tokio-tar. In turn TARmageddon impacts the uv Python package manager and other users of this library. Edera made public today their discovery of a critical boundary-parsing bug in …

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Gemini has a known vulnerability, and Google is leaving it alone

Gemini has a known vulnerability, and Google is leaving it alone

Google’s Gemini AI is facing scrutiny after a researcher discovered a new exploit called an “ASCII smuggling” attack, and the tech giant has made it clear it doesn’t plan to fix it. Cybersecurity researcher Viktor Markopoulos from FireTail first revealed the flaw. It involves hidden characters in text that Gemini reads as commands, even though people cannot see them (via …

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Your gaming mouse could eavesdrop on you, study reveals surprising vulnerability – TechSpot

Your gaming mouse could eavesdrop on you, study reveals surprising vulnerability  TechSpot Motion sensors in high-performance mice can be used as a microphone to spy on users, thanks to AI — Mic-E-Mouse technique harnesses mouse sensors, converts acoustic vibrations into speech  Tom’s Hardware AI Can Listen to You via Vibrations Detected by the Popular Gaming Mouse Sensors from Sunnyvale Company  Hoodline Mic-E-Mouse Vulnerability …

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Developers using Unity warned to patch games ASAP following the discovery of a serious security vulnerability

Developers using Unity warned to patch games ASAP following the discovery of a serious security vulnerability

Developers who have created their games using Unity have been warned to patch them as soon as possible following the discovery of a security vulnerability in Unity versions 2017.1 and later. In a statement, Unity said a “security vulnerability was identified that affects games and applications built on Unity versions 2017.1 and later for Android, Windows, Linux, and macOS operating …

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Your OnePlus phone is probably at risk from a major SMS vulnerability

Your OnePlus phone is probably at risk from a major SMS vulnerability

The majority of OnePlus phones in use today may be vulnerable to a security flaw that leaves SMS and MMS data exposed, and it won’t be patched until mid-October. Only OnePlus phones still running 2020’s OxygenOS 11 or earlier are believed to be safe from the flaw. Security company Rapid7 was first to discover the vulnerability, which relates to changes …

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Cisco warns of IOS zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks

Cisco warns of IOS zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks

Cisco has released security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in Cisco IOS and IOS XE Software that is currently being exploited in attacks. Tracked as CVE-2025-20352, the flaw is due to a stack-based buffer overflow weakness found in the Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) subsystem of vulnerable IOS and IOS XE software, impacting all devices with SNMP enabled. …

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Fed’s Miran Says Economic Vulnerability Calls for Rapid Cuts – Bloomberg.com

Fed’s Miran Says Economic Vulnerability Calls for Rapid Cuts  Bloomberg.com Federal Reserve cuts interest rates: What’s next for credit cards, auto loans, mortgages  USA Today Stephen Miran, who Trump nominated to undermine Fed independence, once wrote a scathing critique of how the Fed wasn’t independent enough  Fortune Stephen Miran on interest rates  Financial Times The Fed has a lot of catching up to do, …

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Cisco Warns of Actively Exploited SNMP Vulnerability Allowing RCE or DoS in IOS Software

Cisco Warns of Actively Exploited SNMP Vulnerability Allowing RCE or DoS in IOS Software

Sep 25, 2025Ravie LakshmananVulnerability / Network Security Cisco has warned of a high-severity security flaw in IOS Software and IOS XE Software that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or trigger a denial-of-service (DoS) condition under specific circumstances. The company said the vulnerability, CVE-2025-20352 (CVSS score: 7.7), has been exploited in the wild, adding it became aware …

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