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OBI CEO and board chair on Oregon’s ‘competitiveness crisis’
“Stopping Oregon’s competitive slide will require a commitment by the state’s elected leaders to recognize and address the policies and culture driving it. We can’t think of a better – and more necessary – focus for the 2025 legislative session.”
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Portland’s heavy tax burden called out in new report
Tax Foundation finds Portland has highest business taxes and second-highest top marginal rate on wage income in the country.
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Oregon leaders react to Supreme Court ruling on Grants Pass camping ban
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Oregon city’s camping ban in a 6-3 decision.
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Agility Robotics inks deal with a logistic giant
Oregon’s Agility Robotics inked a multiyear deal with a logistics giant for commercial deployment of its humanoid robots, a first for the industry.
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Kimsuky Using TRANSLATEXT Chrome Extension to Steal Sensitive Data
The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Kimsuky has been linked to the use of a new malicious Google Chrome extension that’s designed to steal sensitive information as part of an ongoing intelligence collection effort. Zscaler ThreatLabz, which observed the activity in early March 2024, has codenamed the extension TRANSLATEXT, highlighting its ability to gather…
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GitLab Releases Patch for Critical CI/CD Pipeline Vulnerability and 13 Others
GitLab has released security updates to address 14 security flaws, including one critical vulnerability that could be exploited to run continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines as any user. The weaknesses, which affect GitLab Community Edition (CE) and Enterprise Edition (EE), have been addressed in versions 17.1.1, 17.0.3, and 16.11.5. The most severe of…
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8220 Gang Exploits Oracle WebLogic Server Flaws for Cryptocurrency Mining
Security researchers have shed more light on the cryptocurrency mining operation conducted by the 8220 Gang by exploiting known security flaws in the Oracle WebLogic Server. “The threat actor employs fileless execution techniques, using DLL reflective and process injection, allowing the malware code to run solely in memory and avoid disk-based detection mechanisms,” Trend Micro…
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Combatting the Evolving SaaS Kill Chain: How to Stay Ahead of Threat Actors
The modern kill chain is eluding enterprises because they aren’t protecting the infrastructure of modern business: SaaS. SaaS continues to dominate software adoption, and it accounts for the greatest share of public cloud spending. But enterprises and SMBs alike haven’t revised their security programs or adopted security tooling built for SaaS. Security teams keep jamming…
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New SnailLoad Attack Exploits Network Latency to Spy on Users’ Web Activities
A group of security researchers from the Graz University of Technology have demonstrated a new side-channel attack known as SnailLoad that could be used to remotely infer a user’s web activity. “SnailLoad exploits a bottleneck present on all Internet connections,” the researchers said in a study released this week. “This bottleneck influences the latency of…
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Hundreds of acres in Bend marketed for nearly 2,500 new homes
Some 2,500 new homes could one day rise on just over 260 acres in Central Oregon’s largest city.
