2018 – Page 106

Lenovo patches critical flaws that affect Broadcom’s chipsets in dozens of Lenovo ThinkPad

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

According to a security advisory issued by Lenovo, two critical vulnerabilities in Broadcom chipsets affects at least 25 models of Lenovo ThinkPad. The affected models are ThinkPad 10, ThinkPad L460, ThinkPad P50s, ThinkPad T460, ThinkPad T460p, ThinkPad T460s, ThinkPad T560, ThinkPad X260 and ThinkPad Yoga 260. One of the flaws was discovered in June […]

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Hackers are exploiting the CVE-2018-0101 CISCO ASA flaw in attacks in the wild

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Hackers are exploiting the CVE-2018-0101 CISCO ASA flaw in attacks in the wild and a Proof-of-concept exploit code is available online. This week, Cisco has rolled out new security patches for a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2018-0101, in its CISCO ASA (Adaptive Security Appliance) software. This is the second the tech giant issued a […]

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Russian Scientists Arrested for Using Nuclear Weapon Facility to Mine Bitcoins

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Two days ago when infosec bods claimed to have uncovered what’s believed to be the first case of a SCADA network (a water utility) infected with cryptocurrency-mining malware, a batch of journalists accused other authors of making fear-mongering headlines, taunting that the next headline could be about cryptocurrency-miner detected in a nuclear […]

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New Tech Support Scam Freezes Chrome, Firefox & Brave Browser

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Another day, another tech support scam – This scam aims at freezing Internet browsers and trick users into calling tech support scam where scammers try stealing personal data. A new scam campaign has been discovered by Malwarebytes researchers that targets the most reliable internet browsers in the world including Google […]

UDPOS PoS malware exfiltrates credit card data DNS queries

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

A new PoS malware dubbed UDPoS appeared in the threat landscape and implements a novel and hard to detect technique to steal credit card data from infected systems. The UDPoS malware was spotted by researchers from ForcePoint Labs, it relies upon User Datagram Protocol (UDP) DNS traffic for data exfiltration instead of HTTP that is the […]

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A Flaw in Hotspot Shield VPN From AnchorFree Can Expose Users Locations

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Security expert Paulos Yibelo has discovered a vulnerability in Hotspot Shield VPN from AnchorFree that can expose locations of the users. Paulos Yibelo, a security researcher, has discovered a vulnerability that can expose users and locations around the globe compromising their anonymity and privacy. The company has about 500 million […]

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WordPress Update Breaks Automatic Update Feature—Apply Manual Update

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

WordPress Update Breaks Automatic Update Feature Apply Manual Update WordPress administrators are once again in trouble. WordPress version 4.9.3 was released earlier this week with patches for a total 34 vulnerabilities, but unfortunately, the new version broke the automatic update mechanism for millions of WordPress websites. WordPress team has now issued a […]

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Researcher found multiple vulnerabilities in NETGEAR Routers, update them now!

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Security researchers Martin Rakhmanov from Trustwave conducted a one-year-study on the firmware running on Netgear routers and discovered vulnerabilities in a couple of dozen models. Netgear has just released many security updates that address vulnerabilities in a couple of dozen models. The vulnerabilities have been reported by security researchers Martin Rakhmanov […]

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Swisscom data breach Hits 800,000 Customers, 10% of Swiss population

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Swisscom data breach – Telco company Swisscom confirmed it has suffered a data breach that affected roughly 800,000 of its customers, roughly 10% of the Swiss population. Swiss telco company Swisscom confirmed it has suffered a data breach that affected roughly 800,000 of its customers, roughly 10% of the Swiss population. According to Swisscom, unauthorized parties […]

Joomla 3.8.4 release addresses three XSS and SQL Injection vulnerabilities

Haythem Elmir 8 ans ago

Joomla development team has released the Joomla 3.8.4 that addresses many issues, including an SQL injection bug and three cross-site scripting (XSS) flaws. Joomla development team has released the Joomla 3.8.4 that addresses a large number of issues, including an SQL injection bug and three cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. The latest release also includes several improvements. The XSS and SQL […]