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Reproductive Freedom rally held in The Dalles
THE DALLES — About 50 people attended the Rally for Reproductive Freedom, held at City Park June 24 to mark the second anniversary of the Dobbs decision that ended Roe v. Wade, or the legal right to an abortion under…
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How MFA Failures are Fueling a 500% Surge in Ransomware Losses
The cybersecurity threat landscape has witnessed a dramatic and alarming rise in the average ransomware payment, an increase exceeding 500%. Sophos, a global leader in cybersecurity, revealed in its annual “State of Ransomware 2024” report that the average ransom payment has increased 500% in the last year with organizations that paid a ransom reporting an…
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New Intel CPU Vulnerability ‘Indirector’ Exposes Sensitive Data
Modern CPUs from Intel, including Raptor Lake and Alder Lake, have been found vulnerable to a new side-channel attack that could be exploited to leak sensitive information from the processors. The attack, codenamed Indirector by security researchers Luyi Li, Hosein Yavarzadeh, and Dean Tullsen, leverages shortcomings identified in Indirect Branch Predictor (IBP) and the Branch…
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Meta’s ‘Pay or Consent’ Approach Faces E.U. Competition Rules Scrutiny
Meta’s decision to offer an ad-free subscription in the European Union (E.U.) has faced a new setback after regulators accused the social media behemoth of breaching the bloc’s competition rules by forcing users to choose between seeing ads or paying to avoid them. The European Commission said the company’s “pay or consent” advertising model is…
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Chinese Hackers Exploiting Cisco Switches Zero-Day to Deliver Malware
A China-nexus cyber espionage group named Velvet Ant has been observed exploiting a zero-day flaw in Cisco NX-OS Software used in its switches to deliver malware. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-20399 (CVSS score: 6.0), concerns a case of command injection that allows an authenticated, local attacker to execute arbitrary commands as root on the underlying…
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Australian Man Charged for Fake Wi-Fi Scam on Domestic Flights
An Australian man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with an aim to steal user credentials and data. The unnamed 42-year-old “allegedly established fake free Wi-Fi access points, which mimicked legitimate networks, to capture personal data from unsuspecting victims who mistakenly connected to them,” the Australian Federal…
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OHSU reveals a second wave of job cuts
The cuts include union members of the Oregon Nurses Association and AFSCME.
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Boeing reaches deal to reacquire embattled supplier for $4.7 billion
Spirit Aerosystems has been at the center of Boeing’s supply chain woes after a series of production missteps.
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Oregon launches bridge plan to cover residents on cusp of Medicaid eligibility
OHP Bridge will cover adults with higher than previously allowed incomes.
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Stoll Berne ‘investigating’ Sortis Holdings, use of investor money
Sortis Holdings Executive Chairman Paul Brenneke accused Stoll Berne of trolling for clients.
