Biotech advancements facilitate life-altering treatments for patients. Gene therapy with a viral vector enabled a previously deaf child to hear by restoring the function of a vital protein. Similarly, people with inherited retinal diseases have regained vision through gene therapies that replace defective genes with functioning ones. Trametinib, a drug originally for melanoma, shrank a rare type of brain tumor in a child, offering hope for repurposing existing drugs for other cancer types. [The “Biotech Christmas miracles” also included an anecdote of successful immunotherapy for stage 4 glioblastoma.]
IXON VPN Vulnerabilities Let Attackers Gain Access to Windows & Linux Systems
A security assessment by Shelltrail revealed three critical vulnerabilities in the IXON VPN client, allowing privilege escalation on Windows and Linux. Identified as CVE-2025-ZZZ-01, CVE-2025-ZZZ-02,
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