Critical Telnet flaw (CVE-2026-24061) exposes 800,000 devices worldwide Attackers gain root access, attempt Python malware deployment after bypassing authentication Patch released; users urged to ...

Threat actors are exploiting a critical vulnerability that affects hundreds of thousands of telnet servers, bringing an often-neglected threat vector back into the limelight. One Monday, the US ...

Internet security watchdog Shadowserver tracks nearly 800,000 IP addresses with Telnet fingerprints amid ongoing attacks exploiting a critical authentication bypass vulnerability in the GNU InetUtils ...

A coordinated campaign has been observed targeting a recently disclosed critical-severity vulnerability that has been present in the GNU InetUtils telnetd server for 11 years. The security issue is ...

The 11-year-old vulnerability likely impacts many devices that are no longer supported — and presents easy exploit even for those that are. Computers with Telnet open are in immediate danger of being ...

AutoHotkey (AHK) is a free and simple yet powerful Windows scripting language. It doesn’t get a lot of press these days, but Windows geeks used to love writing and swapping AHK scripts. Well, that’s ...

Microsoft has reminded customers about the ongoing deprecation of VBScript in Windows, explaining what to do with legacy VBA projects. From time to time, Microsoft deprecates legacy components in ...

If you are setting up a new PC with Windows 11 version 24H2 (2024 Update) or later, developers may not find the VBScript installed after installation, as Microsoft does not install it by default now.

In context: Windows has included a proprietary JavaScript engine since the release of Internet Explorer 3.0 nearly 30 years ago. Technically, JScript is Microsoft's own dialect of the ...

A startling milestone has been reached in Florida's war against the invasive Burmese pythons eating their way across the Everglades. The Conservancy of Southwest Florida reports it has captured and ...