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Why You Should Swap Passwords for Passphrases
The advice didn’t change for decades: use complex passwords with uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and symbols. The idea is to make passwords harder for hackers to crack via brute force methods. But more recent guidance shows our focus should be on password length, rather than complexity. Length is the more important security factor, and passphrases are…
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Researchers Identify PassiveNeuron APT Using Neursite and NeuralExecutor Malware
Government, financial, and industrial organizations located in Asia, Africa, and Latin America are the target of a new campaign dubbed PassiveNeuron, according to findings from Kaspersky. The cyber espionage activity was first flagged by the Russian cybersecurity vendor in November 2024, when it disclosed a set of attacks aimed at government entities in Latin America…
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TARmageddon Flaw in Async-Tar Rust Library Could Enable Remote Code Execution
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a high-severity flaw impacting the popular async-tar Rust library and its forks, including tokio-tar, that could result in remote code execution under certain conditions. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2025-62518 (CVSS score: 8.1), has been codenamed TARmageddon by Edera, which discovered the issue in late August 2025. It impacts several
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TP-Link Patches Four Omada Gateway Flaws, Two Allow Remote Code Execution
TP-Link has released security updates to address four security flaws impacting Omada gateway devices, including two critical bugs that could result in arbitrary code execution. The vulnerabilities in question are listed below – CVE-2025-6541 (CVSS score: 8.6) – An operating system command injection vulnerability that could be exploited by an attacker who can log in…
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Council passes updated public nuisance ordinance
THE DALLES — Tense discussion about houselessness and public disruption persisted at The Dalles City Council meeting on Oct. 13 — the latest chapter of an ongoing disagreement between local charitable food services and public officials.
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Braver Angels to hold next meeting Nov. 6 in The Dalles
FREE NEWS: Braver Angels Columbia Gorge Alliance holds its next meeting Nov. 6 at UCC Congregational Church, 111 E. Fifth St., The Dalles, from 6-7:30 p.m.
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Meta Rolls Out New Tools to Protect WhatsApp and Messenger Users from Scams
Meta on Tuesday said it’s launching new tools to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. To that end, the company said it’s introducing new warnings on WhatsApp when users attempt to share their screen with an unknown contact during a video call so as to prevent them from giving away sensitive information like…
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Securing AI to Benefit from AI
Artificial intelligence (AI) holds tremendous promise for improving cyber defense and making the lives of security practitioners easier. It can help teams cut through alert fatigue, spot patterns faster, and bring a level of scale that human analysts alone can’t match. But realizing that potential depends on securing the systems that make it possible. Every…
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Google Identifies Three New Russian Malware Families Created by COLDRIVER Hackers
A new malware attributed to the Russia-linked hacking group known as COLDRIVER has undergone numerous developmental iterations since May 2025, suggesting an increased “operations tempo” from the threat actor. The findings come from Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG), which said the state-sponsored hacking crew has rapidly refined and retooled its malware arsenal merely five days…
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Oregon Journalism Project: Gas Tax Referral Campaign kicks off
This story was produced by the Oregon Journalism Project (oregonjournalismproject.org), a nonprofit investigative newsroom for the state of Oregon.
