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Davis leads tight Wasco Co. DA race
May 21 Primary updated results
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Researchers Warn of CatDDoS Botnet and DNSBomb DDoS Attack Technique
The threat actors behind the CatDDoS malware botnet have exploited over 80 known security flaws in various software over the past three months to infiltrate vulnerable devices and co-opt them into a botnet for conducting distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. “CatDDoS-related gangs’ samples have used a large number of known vulnerabilities to deliver samples,” the QiAnXin…
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WordPress Plugin Exploited to Steal Credit Card Data from E-commerce Sites
Unknown threat actors are abusing lesser-known code snippet plugins for WordPress to insert malicious PHP code in victim sites that are capable of harvesting credit card data. The campaign, observed by Sucuri on May 11, 2024, entails the abuse of a WordPress plugin called Dessky Snippets, which allows users to add custom PHP code. It has over 200 active installations.
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TP-Link Gaming Router Vulnerability Exposes Users to Remote Code Attacks
A maximum-severity security flaw has been disclosed in the TP-Link Archer C5400X gaming router that could lead to remote code execution on susceptible devices by sending specially crafted requests. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-5035, carries a CVSS score of 10.0. It impacts all versions of the router firmware including and prior to 1_1.1.6. It has 
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Bill Walton, a legendary Portlander and Trail Blazer, dies at 71
One of the sport’s most distinct personalities, Walton helped bring Portland one of the city’s greatest points in time.
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Oregon is home to the world’s largest Dark Sky Sanctuary. Here’s how it happened.
“In my experience, nobody wants to light pollute.” Travel Southern Oregon’s Bob Hackett on landing the Oregon Outback International Dark Sky Sanctuary certification.
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Moroccan Cybercrime Group Steals Up to $100K Daily Through Gift Card Fraud
Microsoft is calling attention to a Morocco-based cybercrime group dubbed Storm-0539 that’s behind gift card fraud and theft through highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks. “Their primary motivation is to steal gift cards and profit by selling them online at a discounted rate,” the company said in its latest Cyber Signals report. “We’ve seen some examples where
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Report: The Dark Side of Phishing Protection
The transition to the cloud, poor password hygiene and the evolution in webpage technologies have all enabled the rise in phishing attacks. But despite sincere efforts by security stakeholders to mitigate them – through email protection, firewall rules and employee education – phishing attacks are still a very risky attack vector. A new report by LayerX explores the state…
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New Tricks in the Phishing Playbook: Cloudflare Workers, HTML Smuggling, GenAI
Cybersecurity researchers are alerting of phishing campaigns that abuse Cloudflare Workers to serve phishing sites that are used to harvest users’ credentials associated with Microsoft, Gmail, Yahoo!, and cPanel Webmail. The attack method, called transparent phishing or adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing, “uses Cloudflare Workers to act as a reverse proxy server for a
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Applying for SBA loans? 3 insights to clarify the process
For many small-business owners that are on an access-to-capital journey, the thought of pursuing an SBA (Small Business Administration) loan has no doubt crossed their minds. Some may seek out SBA loans, but for many the SBA process can seem daunting and overwhelming. The SBA was formed in 1953, and at the time the paperwork…
