Brooklyn Beckham appears to take a tense phone call during outing in LA after wife Nicola Peltz's latest 'dig' at mum Victoria amid ongoing family feud
The estranged son of David and Victoria Beckham, 27, was spotted pacing and animatedly moving his arms during the lengthy conversation.
Timothee Chalamet's embarrassing moment as his luxury electric car is towed from his Beverly Hills mansion
Timothée Chalamet faced yet another embarrassing moment on Saturday, when his high-end Lucid Air electric car was towed from his Beverly Hills home.
Pippa Middleton ready for a rumble with The Ramblers' Association after shutting footpath at her £15million mansion
But Pippa Middleton and James Matthews now find themselves in a battle with furious locals, after they barred dog walkers and ramblers from going through their grounds.
Gigi Hadid breaks silence on her appearance in the Epstein files: 'Disgusting'
Gigi Hadid has broken silence on her name being mentioned in the Epstein files and admitted that it made her 'sick to my stomach.'
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner seem more like a couple than exes as they happily reunite with son Samuel, 14, ahead of Easter
The exes put on another united front as they took their son Samuel, 14, on an errand run in sunny Los Angeles on Friday
What really happens at a UK journalism conference, and why it matters to readers
I had been invited to speak at the Student Publication Association’s national conference this year.
The 'charming' coastal town near Essex named one of the UK's best for fish and chips
If you are looking for a road trip that will not take you across the country, Aldeburgh in Suffolk might just be the pick.
Food hygiene ratings in north, mid Essex and Tendring over the last 3 months
The Food Standards Agency (FDA) has inspected numerous businesses in North Colchester and Tendring over the first three months of the year.
The 'charming' coastal town near Essex named one of the UK's best for fish and chips
If you are looking for a road trip that will not take you across the country, Aldeburgh in Suffolk might just be the pick.
What really happens at a UK journalism conference, and why it matters to readers
I had been invited to speak at the Student Publication Association’s national conference this year.
Food hygiene ratings in north, mid Essex and Tendring over the last 3 months
The Food Standards Agency (FDA) has inspected numerous businesses in North Colchester and Tendring over the first three months of the year.
Niece of infamous Iranian general is arrested by ICE in LA over claims she celebrated deaths of US soldiers, with her and daughter's green cards now revoked
Hamideh Soleimani Afshar and her daughter, Sarinasadat Hosseiny, were detained by ICE on Friday while living the high life in the City of Angels.
Tori Spelling and four of her children taken to the hospital after horror car accident in Temecula
Tori Spelling was involved in a car accident while some of her children were in the vehicle in Temecula, California on Thursday.
Scientists create the first EVER map of the clitoris - and it confirms the female sexual organ is even more sensitive than we thought
It's often described as the 'female pleasure centre'. And now the clitoris has been mapped for the very first time.
Top NPM Maintainers Targeted with AI Deepfakes in Massive Supply-Chain Attack, Axios Briefly Compromised
"Hackers briefly turned a widely trusted developer tool into a vehicle for credential-stealing malware that could give attackers ongoing access to infected systems," the news site Axios.com reported Tuesday, citing security researchers at Google.
The compromised package — also named axios — simplifies HTTP requests, and reportedly receives millions of downloads each day:
The malicious versions were removed within roughly three hours of being published, but Google warned the incident could have "far-reaching impacts" given the package's widespread use, according to John Hultquist, chief analyst at Google Threat Intelligence Group. Wiz estimates Axios is downloaded roughly 100 million times per week and is present in about 80% of cloud and code environments. So far, Wiz has observed the malicious versions in roughly 3% of the environments it has scanned.
Friday PCMag notes the maintainer's compromised account had two-factor authentication enabled, with the breach ultimately traced "to an elaborate AI deepfake from suspected North Korean hackers that was convincing enough to trick a developer into installing malware," according to a post-mortem published Thursday by lead developer Jason Saayman:
[Saayman] fell for a scheme from a North Korean hacking group, dubbed UNC1069, which involves sending out phishing messages and then hosting virtual meetings that use AI deepfakes to clone the face and voices of real executives. The virtual meetings will then create the impression of an audio problem, which can only be "solved" if the victim installs some software or runs a troubleshooting command. In reality, it's an effort to execute malware. The North Koreans have been using the tactic repeatedly, whether it be to phish cryptocurrency firms or to secure jobs from IT companies.
Saayman said he faced a similar playbook. "They reached out masquerading as the founder of a company, they had cloned the company's founders likeness as well as the company itself," he wrote. "They then invited me to a real Slack workspace. This workspace was branded... The Slack was thought out very well, they had channels where they were sharing LinkedIn posts. The LinkedIn posts I presume just went to the real company's account, but it was super convincing etc." The hackers then invited him to a virtual meeting on Microsoft Teams. "The meeting had what seemed to be a group of people that were involved. The meeting said something on my system was out of date. I installed the missing item as I presumed it was something to do with Teams, and this was the remote access Trojan," he added. "Everything was extremely well coordinated, looked legit and was done in a professional manner."
Friday developer security platform Socket wrote that several more maintainers in the Node.js ecosystem "have come out of the woodwork to report that they were targeted by the same social engineering campaign."
The accounts now span some of the most widely depended-upon packages in the npm registry and Node.js core itself, and together they confirm that axios was not a one-off target. It was part of a coordinated, scalable attack pattern aimed at high-trust, high-impact open source maintainers. Attackers also targeted several Socket engineers, including CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh. Feross is the creator of WebTorrent, StandardJS, buffer, and dozens of widely used npm packages with billions of downloads... Commenting on the axios post-mortem thread, he noted that this type of targeting [against individual maintainers] is no longer unusual... "We're seeing them across the ecosystem and they're only accelerating."
Jordan Harband, John-David Dalton, and other Socket engineers also confirmed they were targeted. Harband, a TC39 member, maintains hundreds of ECMAScript polyfills and shims that are foundational to the JavaScript ecosystem. Dalton is the creator of Lodash, which sees more than 137 million weekly downloads on npm. Between them, the packages they maintain are downloaded billions of times each month. Wes Todd, an Express TC member and member of the Node Package Maintenance Working Group, also confirmed he was targeted. Matteo Collina, co-founder and CTO of Platformatic, Node.js Technical Steering Committee Chair, and lead maintainer of Fastify, Pino, and Undici, disclosed on April 2 that he was also targeted. His packages also see billion downloads per year... Scott Motte, creator of dotenv, the package used by virtually every Node.js project that handles environment variables, with more than 114 million weekly downloads, also confirmed he was targeted using the same Openfort persona.
Socket reports that another maintainer was targetted with an invitation to appear on a podcast. (During the recording a suspicious technical issue appeared which required a software fix to resolve....)
Even just technical implementation, "This is among the most operationally sophisticated supply chain attacks ever documented against a top-10 npm package," the CI/CD security company StepSecurity wrote Tuesday
The dropper contacts a live command-and-control server, delivers separate second-stage payloads for macOS, Windows, and Linux, then erases itself and replaces its own package.json with a clean decoy... Three payloads were pre-built for three operating systems. Both release branches were poisoned within 39 minutes of each other. Every artifact was designed to self-destruct. Within two seconds of npm install, the malware was already calling home to the attacker's server before npm had even finished resolving dependencies... Both versions were published using the compromised npm credentials of a lead axios maintainer, bypassing the project's normal GitHub Actions CI/CD pipeline.
"As preventive steps, Saayman has now outlined several changes," reports The Hacker News, "including resetting all devices and credentials, setting up immutable releases, adopting OIDC flow for publishing, and updating GitHub Actions to adopt best practices."
The Wall Street Journal called it "the latest in a string of incidents exposing risks in the systems that underpin how modern software is built."
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Man burned, strangled and pounded with 25LB dumbbells at his upscale DC condo after violent robbers took advantage of his kind-hearted act
There was blood around Hussain's head, on the floor and on a nearby wall, according to an affidavit filed Tuesday in DC Superior Court viewed by the Daily Mail.
Microsoft Pulls Then Re-Issues Windows 11 Preview Update. Also Begins Force-Updating Windows 11
Nine days ago Microsoft released a non-security "preview" update for Windows 11 — not mandatory for the average Windows user, notes ZDNet, "but rather as optional, more for IT admins and power users who want to test them."
TechRepublic adds that the update "was to bring 'production-ready improvements' and generally ensure system stability by optimizing different Windows services." So it's ironic that some (but not all) users reported instead that the update "blocks users at the door, refusing to install or crashing midway through the process."
"It apparently impacted enough people to force Microsoft to take action," writes ZDNet. "Microsoft paused and then pulled the update," and then Tuesday released a new update "designed to replace the glitchy one. This one includes all the new features and improvements from the previous preview update, but also fixes the installation issues that clobbered that update."
Meanwhile, as Windows 11 version 24H2 approaches its end of life this October, Microsoft is now force-updating users to the latest version, reports BleepingComputer:
"The machine learning-based intelligent rollout has expanded to all devices running Home and Pro editions of Windows 11, version 24H2 that are not managed by IT departments," Microsoft said in a Monday update to the Windows release health dashboard... "No action is required, and you can choose when to restart your device or postpone the update."
Neowin reports:
The good news is that the update from version 24H2 to 25H2 is a minor enablement package, as the two operating systems share the same codebase. As such, the update won't take long, and you should not encounter any disruptions, compatibility issues, or previously unseen bugs... Microsoft recently promised to implement big changes in how Windows Update works, including the ability to postpone updates for as long as you want. However, Microsoft has yet to clarify if that includes staying on a release beyond its support period.
Thanks to long-time Slashdot reader Ol Olsoc for sharing the news.
Read more of this story at Slashdot.
How your sofa could be a cancer risk: Ministers forced to change fire safety laws that mean many are full of toxic chemicals
Ministers have confirmed they will ditch a controversial 'open flame' test that critics say drove manufacturers to load furniture with large quantities of flame retardants.
Elite team of Royal Navy divers on standby to deploy to the Strait of Hormuz to help defuse Iranian mines blocking shipping lanes
The divers are members of the Diving and Threat Exploitation Group (DTXG) and have one of the most dangerous jobs in the Armed Forces.
As the Iranians closed in, an elite unit of American rescue troops - under heavy fire - swooped to grab the stranded pilot: IAN GALLAGHER
It's early on Friday morning and the two-man crew of a F-15E Strike Eagle are making final checks before take-off. Pictured: File photo of a US Air Force training exercise