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Millions of OpenSSH servers could be vulnerable to unauthenticated remote code execution due to a vulnerability tracked as regreSSHion and CVE-2024-6387.

So, Google Chrome gives all *.google.com sites full access to system / tab CPU usage, GPU usage, and memory usage. It also gives access to detailed processor information, and provides a logging backchannel.

This API is not exposed to other sites - only to…

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MSI had its internal warranty (RMA) server publicly exposed, where hundreds of thousands of warranty records were available to anybody. There was no hack required, no account access…

'No shady privacy policies or back doors for advertisers' proclaims the Firefox homepage, but that's no longer true in Firefox 128.

A faulty software update to enterprise computers by cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike has taken millions of computers offline, most of which are in a commercial or enterprise environment, or are Azure deployments. CrowdStrike provides periodic software and security…