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Posted by Roy Schestowitz on Oct 15, 2024

Tom's Hardware ☛ Chinese scientists use quantum computers to crack military-grade encryption — quantum attack poses a "real and substantial threat" to RSA and AES

Chinese researchers claim to have uncovered a “real and substantial threat” to classical cryptography, which is widely used in banking and the military sectors.

Medevel ☛ PRET - Printer Exploitation Toolkit for Pentesters

PRET is a security testing tool for printers, developed at Ruhr University Bochum. It connects to printers via network or USB and exploits PostScript, PJL, and PCL languages to manipulate print jobs, access the printer’s file system, and potentially cause physical damage.

SANS ☛ Phishing Page Delivered Through a Blob URL, (Mon, Oct 14th)

I receive a lot of spam in my catch-all mailboxes. If most of them are not interesting, some still attract my attention.

Scoop News Group ☛ Tens of thousands of IPs vulnerable to Fortinet flaw dubbed ‘must patch’ by feds

The Shadowserver Foundation put the figure at around 87,000 for a vulnerability rated as critical and first discovered in February.