Hacking

VMware, a Dell Technologies subsidiary, released several patches Tuesday fixing critical vulnerabilities affecting its vSphere cloud computing virtualization platform. The bugs address three vulnerabilities in VMware’s vSphere Data Protection (VDP), a backup and recovery solution used with its vSphere platform. According to the company, a remote attacker could exploit the […]

Former NSA hacker, demonstrated how to subvert the Kaspersky Lab antivirus and turn it into a powerful search tool for classified documents. The Kaspersky case demonstrated that security software can be exploited by intelligence agencies as a powerful spy tool. Patrick Wardle, chief research officer at Digita Security and former NSA […]

The Necurs botnet made the headlines at year-end sending out tens of millions of spam emails daily as part of massive ransomware campaigns. Necurs was not active for a long period at the beginning of 2017 and resumed it activity in April. The Necurs botnet was used in the past months to push […]

A researcher that goes by the handle “Siguza” released details of a local privilege escalation attack against macOS that dates back to 2002. A successful attack could give adversaries complete root access to targeted systems. Siguza released details of the attack on Dec. 31 via Twitter, wishing followers a “Happy […]

A critical security vulnerability has been reported in phpMyAdmin—one of the most popular applications for managing the MySQL database—which could allow remote attackers to perform dangerous database operations just by tricking administrators into clicking a link. Discovered by an Indian security researcher, Ashutosh Barot, the vulnerability is a cross-site request […]

Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin… La liste des monnaies virtuelles susceptibles de rattraper le Bitcoin en ‘part de marché’ cette année s’allonge. Sur la base d’un cours actuel voisin de 13.500$ sur le ‘BTC’ (données Bitfinex), la capitalisation globale de marché du Bitcoin s’affiche désormais à un peu plus de 230 milliards […]

Si votre navigateur Samsung Internet n’est pas à jour, il vous faut y remédier de toute urgence. Une faille de sécurité permet le vol de nombreuses données personnelles.   C’est une année 2018 qui ne commence pas de la meilleure façon pour Samsung avec la révélation d’une faille critique de […]

Smartphones have remained the primary domain of experimentation for cybercriminals as they are always finding out ways to exploit and crack smartphones mainly Android devices. Apparently, researchers at Singapore based Nanyang Technology University or NTU Singapore, have identified a brand new way with which cyber-crooks can compromise a smartphone, which […]

Forever 21 confirmed hackers breached payment system for 7 months, admitted encryption was turned off on some POS devices. If you shopped in a brick-and-mortar Forever 21 store this year, your credit card information may have been compromised due to the company’s failure to turn on encryption in some of […]