Sloppy implementation of Google spec leaves ‘hundreds of millions’ of devices vulnerable Hundreds of millions of wireless earbuds, headphones, and speakers are vulnerable to silent hijacking due to a flaw in Google’s Fast Pair system that allows attackers to seize control without the owner ever touching the pairing button.… READ MORE HERE…

Microsoft claims it’s a Secure Launch bug We’re not saying Copilot has become sentient and decided it doesn’t want to lose consciousness. But if it did, it would create Microsoft’s January Patch Tuesday update, which has made it so that some PCs flat-out refuse to shut down or hibernate, no matter how many times you try.… READ MORE HERE…

Ransomware kingpin who escaped Armenian custody is believed to be lying low back home German cops have added Russian national Oleg Evgenievich Nefekov to their list of most-wanted criminals for his services to ransomware.… READ MORE HERE…

Check Point observes 40K+ attack attempts in 4 hours, with government organizations under fire A critical HPE OneView flaw is now being exploited at scale, with Check Point tying mass, automated attacks to the RondoDox botnet.… READ MORE HERE…

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…