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Microsoft added a new known issue affecting its operating systems’ Wi-Fi hotspot feature to its official Health Dashboard page. Affecting Windows 10 and 11 machines, the bug would have been introduced with a Windows update the company released earlier this month. “After installing KB5014697, Windows devices might be unable [to] use the Wi-Fi hotspot feature.” For context, the update, released on June 14, addresses various security issues.  “This update contains miscellaneous security improvements to internal OS…

A California man was sentenced to time in prison Wednesday after hacking thousands of iCloud accounts, stealing people’s nude images and videos and sharing them with conspirators. Hao Kuo Chi, acting under the online name of ‘icloudripper4you’, would have illegally obtained the iCloud credentials of approximately 4700 victims and shared their content with other people on more than 300 occasions. Because of these crimes, US District Judge Kathryn Kimball Mizelle sentenced Chi to nine years…

The new DCMS digital strategy was announced at London Tech Week, with digital minister Chris Philp promising that it would help grow a £150-billion digital economy and make the UK the “best place in the world to start and grow a technology business.” The cross-government strategy, not to be confused with a new CDDO digital government strategy intent on improving digital government services, will focus on six key areas, from rolling out world class infrastructure…

CVE-2022-27511, CVE-2022-27512: Patches for Two Citrix Application Delivery Management Vulnerabilities Citrix patches a “nasty bug” in its Application Delivery Management solution that is difficult to exploit. Background On June 14, Citrix published a security bulletin (CTX460016) for a pair of vulnerabilities in Citrix Application Delivery Management (ADM), a centralized management solution used to monitor a variety of Citrix networking products. CVE Description CVSSv3 VPR* CVE-2022-27511 Citrix ADM Improper Access Control Vulnerability 8.1 8.4 CVE-2022-27512 Citrix…

Content management system (CMS) provider WordPress has forcibly updated over a million sites to patch a critical vulnerability affecting the Ninja Forms plugin. The flaw was spotted by the Wordfence threat intelligence team in June and documented in an advisory by the company on Thursday. In the document, Wordfence said the code injection vulnerability made it possible for unauthenticated attackers to call a limited number of methods in various Ninja Forms classes, including one that resulted…