Owner reverse-engineered his ride, revealing authentication was never properly individualized An Estonian e-scooter owner locked out of his own ride after the manufacturer went bust did what any determined engineer might do. He reverse-engineered it, and claims he ended up discovering the master key that unlocks every scooter the company ever sold.… READ MORE HERE…

This is a threat to security – and to the weekend for some unlucky netadmins Cisco finally delivered a fix for a maximum-severity bug in AsyncOS that has been under attack for at least a month.… READ MORE HERE…

Redmond says cheap virtual desktops powered a global wave of phishing and fraud Microsoft has taken its cybercrime fight to the UK in its first major civil action outside the US, moving to shut down RedVDS, a virtual desktop service used to power phishing and fraud at global scale.… READ MORE HERE…

Cloud-native, 37 plugins … an attacker’s dream A brand-new Linux malware named VoidLink targets victims’ cloud infrastructure with more than 30 plugins that allow attackers to perform a range of illicit activities, from silent reconnaissance and credential theft to lateral movement and container abuse. … READ MORE HERE…