Année : 2018

AMD concluded its investigation on the vulnerabilities recently discovered by CTS Labs and announced that security patches will be released very soon. AMD has finally acknowledged 13 critical vulnerabilities and exploitable backdoors in its Ryzen and EPYC processors that were first disclosed earlier March by the researchers at the security firm CTS […]

Purdue University scientists have developed a data protection technique called Reactive Redundancy for Data Destruction (R2D2) that can protect data sitting inside a virtual machine from modern data-wiping malware and even some secure file deletion methods. Researchers say the new technique was successful in preventing wiper malware such as Shamoon (v1 and […]

It is just another day with just another ATM malware targeting unsuspecting users – This time, the malware comes with cloning capabilities. According to the findings of Kaspersky Lab researchers, an old point-of-sale malware program Prilex has now been transformed into a full-fledged tool suite that allows cyber-crooks steal PIN card and […]

Legitimate and large-scale cryptocurrency mining operations often invest in dedicated hardware and electric consumption to make a profit. This doesn’t escape the attention of cybercriminals: Malicious cryptocurrency mining was so pervasive last year that it was the most detected network event in devices connected to home routers. Through our incident response-related monitoring, we observed intrusion attempts […]

Travel fare aggregation site Orbitz on Tuesday warned that a hacker may have stolen customers’ personal information and payment card details over a two-year period.   Chicago-based Orbitz, a subsidiary of Bellevue, Washington-based Expedia, says that on March 1, it discovered the suspected breach in a legacy system, noting that […]

On Friday, Frost Bank announced that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images, crooks could use them to forge checks. Frost Bank announced on Friday that it has suffered a data breach that exposed check images. The bank is a subsidiary of Cullen/Frost Bankers, Inc., its staff discovered […]

AMD has officially confirmed the validity of the RyzenFall, MasterKey, Fallout, and Chimera vulnerabilities that came to light on March 12, and said it would be releasing patches in « the coming weeks. » The company’s assessment of the four flaws is consistent with the original whitepaper published by Israeli security firm CTS […]

A Supreme Court in Russia ruled Telegram must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data to avoid being blocked. Bad news for Telegram, a Supreme Court in Russia ruled the company must provide the FSB with encryption keys to access users’ messaging data. If Telegram will refuse to […]

Microsoft said on Friday that the upcoming Windows 10 major feature upgrade —dubbed the Spring Creators Update— will take around 30 minutes to install, unlike previous variants that took between one and two hours to complete. This boost in installation time is attributed to work engineers have done on the « Feature […]