More than 3 million hosts running email services via the POP3 and IMAP protocols don’t have TLS enabled and are vulnerable to all sorts of attacks.

Users can access email services via dedicated apps, but the way that connection is made varies. One way is via the POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) protocol, which downloads the entire email onto the user’s device and deletes it from the server. Another is the IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol), which lets the user interact with the same email mes

If you’ve started exploring customer support platforms, chances are you’ve come across Zendesk. Known for its simplicity and versatility, it’s a go-to solution for businesses looking to streamline customer interactions.

According to Zendesk, even among businesses that have never used a help desk solution, 90 percent are able to deploy it in eight weeks or less (with the help of Zendesk partners), and more than 88,000 SMBs currently utilize their tools.

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On Dec 27, 2024, the US Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR) proposed a series of updates to the HIPAA Security Rule. These changes aim to enhance the cybersecurity of electronic protected health information (ePHI) and align with the Biden Administration’s National Cybersecurity Strategy.

Why Cybercriminals Target Health Information

Cybercriminals target health records because they contain a wealth of personal data, including Social Security Numbers,

Apple has agreed to a $95 million settlement over a Siri eavesdropping lawsuit, denying any abuses. The settlement awaits judicial approval. Apple will pay $95 million to settle claims that its virtual assistant Siri was used to eavesdrop on users, though the company denies the allegations. The settlement proposed by the tech giant aims to […]

Apple has filed a motion to settle a class action lawsuit alleging that its digital assistant Siri leaked audio recordings to third parties.

Years in the making

The lawsuit, going on for some five years now, claims that “without the user’s consent, Apple recorded, disclosed to third parties, or failed to delete, conversations recorded as the result of a Siri activation.”

“Far from requiring a ‘clear, unambiguous trigger’ as Apple claimed in its response to Congress, Siri can be activated b

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a new jailbreak technique that could be used to get past a large language model’s (LLM) safety guardrails and produce potentially harmful or malicious responses.
The multi-turn (aka many-shot) attack strategy has been codenamed Bad Likert Judge by Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers Yongzhe Huang, Yang Ji, Wenjun Hu, Jay Chen, Akshata Rao, and

Experts warn of a new PoC exploit, LDAPNightmare, that targets a Windows LDAP flaw (CVE-2024-49113), causing crashes & reboots. The vulnerability CVE-2024-49113 (CVSS score of 7.5), named LDAPNightmare, is a Windows Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) Denial of Service flaw that was discovered by the researcher Yuki Chen. An attacker can exploit the now-patched vulnerability to […]

Over 3 million POP3 and IMAP mail servers lack TLS encryption, exposing them to network sniffing attacks. ShadowServer researchers reported that around 3.3 million POP3 and IMAP mail servers lack TLS encryption, exposing them to network sniffing attacks. POP3 (Post Office Protocol 3) and IMAP (Internet Message Access Protocol) are two protocols used to retrieve […]