Author Archives: Onsite Computing, Inc.

High-Severity Flaw in PostgreSQL Allows Hackers to Exploit Environment Variables

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a high-severity security flaw in the PostgreSQL open-source database system that could allow unprivileged users to alter environment variables, and potentially lead to code execution or information disclosure. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-10979, carries a CVSS score of 8.8. Environment variables are user-defined values that can allow a program Go to […]

Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years, Guilty of Laundering $10.5 Billion in Bitcoin

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, has been sentenced to five years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday. Lichtenstein was charged for his involvement in a money laundering scheme that led to the theft of nearly 120,000 bitcoins (valued at over $10.5 billion […]

Bitfinex Hacker Sentenced to 5 Years, Guilty of Laundering $10.5 Billion in Bitcoin

Ilya Lichtenstein, who pleaded guilty to the 2016 hack of cryptocurrency stock exchange Bitfinex, has been sentenced to five years in prison, the U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) announced Thursday. Lichtenstein was charged for his involvement in a money laundering scheme that led to the theft of nearly 120,000 bitcoins (valued at over $10.5 billion […]

CISA Flags Critical Palo Alto Network Flaws Actively Exploited in the Wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday warned that two more flaws impacting the Palo Alto Networks Expedition have come under active exploitation in the wild. To that, it has added the vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, requiring Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) agencies to apply the necessary updates […]

GenAI-Security als Checkliste

Das Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) gibt Unternehmen eine Checkliste für (mehr) GenAI-Sicherheit an die Hand. Foto: Gannvector | shutterstock.com Während Unternehmen wie OpenAI, Anthropic, Google oder Microsoft aber auch Open-Source-Alternativen bei ihren Generative-AI– und Large-Language-Model-Angeboten exponentielle User-Zuwächse verzeichnen, sind IT-Sicherheitsentscheider bemüht, mit der rasanten KI-Entwicklung in ihren Unternehmen Schritt zu halten. Die Non-Profit-Organisation […]

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