Author: HackWatchit

Victoria’s Secret website was down due to a ‘security incident’ impacting online and some in-store services. Get the latest on the lingerie giant’s efforts to restore operations and what customers need to know. Lingerie giant Victoria’s Secret shut down its US website and some in-store services for three days due to an unspecified security incident. Customers attempting to access the Victoria’s Secret website were met with a message explaining the service disruption. “Valued customer, we identified and are taking steps to address a security incident. We have taken down our website and some in-store services as a precaution. Our team…

Figure 1. 2025 Frost Radar™: Cloud and Application Runtime Security   Frost & Sullivan also praised CrowdStrike’s ability to correlate cloud events with endpoint and identity telemetry within the Falcon platform. This cross-domain approach, enriched with threat intelligence and 24/7 managed threat hunting, enables security teams to understand the full adversary attack path. Combined, these capabilities “help provide end-to-end visibility and protection across all layers,” Frost & Sullivan states. CrowdStrike’s adversary-based threat intelligence powers advanced behavior analytics and AI/ML to build a vast repository of indicators of attack, which detect and stop advanced threats including malware-free attacks. “Combined with AI-driven…

The Trump administration is proposing to cut more than 1,000 positions at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Under the 2026 budget request, CISA would go from approximately 3,732 funded positions today to 2,649 positions next year. The staff reductions are detailed in CISA’s fiscal 2026 budget justification, posted today. They present the most detailed view yet of the Trump administration’s proposal to cut CISA’s budget by nearly $500 million. The proposed cuts still have to be approved by Congress as part of the 2026 appropriations process. But they come as hundreds of CISA employees have already left under the…

David Fletcher// This blog post is going to illustrate setting up a software access point (AP) on Ubuntu 16.04.  Having the ability to create a software AP can be very handy in testing devices with 802.11 wireless capabilities. By using the software AP we can observe all traffic being generated by a device, inspect that traffic, and determine methods to attack the device. It should be noted that there are many other ways to accomplish the goal of traffic inspection such as: An access point with built-in diagnostic tools or packet capture capabilities Open source device firmware packages Access point…

is a game changer in Machine Learning. In fact, in the recent history of Deep Learning, the idea of allowing models to focus on the most relevant parts of an input sequence when making a prediction completely revolutionized the way we look at Neural Networks. That being said, there is one controversial take that I have about the attention mechanism: The best way to learn the attention mechanism is not through Natural Language Processing (NLP) It is (technically) a controversial take for two reasons. People naturally use NLP cases (e.g., translation or NSP) because NLP is the reason why the…

Can Liquidity Infrastructure Evolve Without Breaking? THENA Thinks So In decentralized finance (DeFi), change often comes at a cost, usually in the form of fragmentation or disruption. When protocols upgrade, users are often forced to migrate capital, adapt to new tools, or abandon positions entirely. THENA’s new upgrade, V3,3, proposes a different path. THENA introduces a modular liquidity system that can evolve over time without disrupting existing pools. By integrating Plugins, smart contract modules that add dynamic behavior to liquidity pools, THENA aims to offer adaptability without requiring redeployment. This could mean lower costs for users, fewer liquidity splits across…

Meta stopped covert operations from Iran, China, and Romania spreading propaganda Pierluigi Paganini May 30, 2025 Meta stopped three covert operations from Iran, China, and Romania using fake accounts to spread propaganda on social media platforms. Meta announced the disruption of three influence operations from Iran, China, and Romania using fake accounts to spread propaganda and manipulate discourse on Facebook, Instagram, and more. The social media giant pointed out that it had removed covert influence campaigns early, preventing them from gaining real audiences on its platforms. Meta removed 157 Facebook accounts, 19 Pages, 1 Group, and 17 Instagram accounts tied…

Federal investigators charged a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) employee and five other people in connection with a massive fraud operation through which they stole more than $36 million from the government’s food stamp program.The complex scheme included installing unauthorized systems with fake codes in retail stores to allow those businesses, which had not been authorized to access the SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program), to accept food stamps as payment for goods and thus draw money from the program.The defendants, all from New York City or the surrounding area, “facilitated the provision of electronic payment terminals, known as Electronic Benefit…

Two critical vulnerabilities affecting the open-source forum software vBulletin have been discovered, with one confirmed to be actively exploited in the wild. The flaws, tracked under CVE-2025-48827 and CVE-2025-48828, and rated critical (CVSS v3 score: 10.0 and 9.0 respectively), are an API method invocation and a remote code execution (RCE) via template engine abuse flaws. They impact vBulletin versions 5.0.0 through 5.7.5 and 6.0.0 through 6.0.3 when the platform runs on PHP 8.1 or later. The vulnerabilities were likely patched quietly last year with the release of Patch Level 1 for all versions of the 6.* release branch, and version…