Haythem Elmir

Facebook has confirmed over the weekend reports that an app made by a team of academics had collected vasts amounts of user data, who then shared this information with Cambridge Analytica —a commercial data analytics firm that allegedly used this info to target US voters in the 2016 Presidential election. […]

For at past nine years, Mozilla has been using an insufficiently strong encryption mechanism for the « master password » feature. Both Firefox and Thunderbird allow users to set up a « master password » through their settings panel. This master password plays the role of an encryption key that is used to encrypt […]

Cisco Meraki, a provider of cloud-managed IT solutions, announced last week the launch of a public bug bounty program with rewards of up to $10,000 per vulnerability. Cisco Meraki, which resulted from Cisco’s acquisition of Meraki in late 2012, started with a private bug bounty program on the Bugcrowd platform. […]

A new ransomware was discovered this week by MalwareHunterTeam called Zenis Ransomware. While it is currently unknown how Zenis is being distributed, multiple victims have already become infected with this ransomware. What is most disturbing about Zenis is that it not encrypts your files, but also purposely deletes your backups. When MalwareHunterTeam found the first […]

VMware a publié des mises à jour de sécurité pour résoudre les vulnérabilités dans VMware Workstation et Fusion. Un attaquant distant pourrait exploiter ces vulnérabilités pour provoquer  un déni de service. RISQUE(S) Déni de service SYSTÈMES AFFECTÉS Workstation versions 14.x antérieures à 14.1.1 Workstation versions 12.x Fusion versions 10.x sur OS […]