Hacking

According to a report by C’T magazine, researchers have found several data-leaking Spectre CPU vulnerabilities in Intel chips, which they are calling “Spectre Next Generation” or Spectre-NG. There are reportedly eight new CVE-listed vulnerabilities, which Intel has not confirmed for now. The company, however, has confirmed the reservation of Common Vulnerabilities […]

GandCrab version 3 was released earlier this week with a few noticeable changes. The most noticeable change is the addition of a desktop background. Unfortunately, at this time GandCrab 3 cannot be decrypted for free. For those who wish to discuss GandCrab or receive support, you can post in our […]

The e-commerce world is continually facing a threat to its rising fame and user appreciation; e-commerce fraud. There has been a steady rise in sales tied to e-commerce platforms across the globe with many embracing the trend. In the same manner, e-commerce fraud has been making a gradual climb from 2015 to […]

Researchers from Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam have demonstrated that it is possible to use a Rowhammer attack to remotely hack Android phones. What is a Rowhammer attack? “The Rowhammer attack targets the design of DRAM memory. On a system where the DRAM is insufficiently refreshed, targeted operations on a row […]

Microsoft’s patches for the Meltdown vulnerability have had a fatal flaw all these past months, according to Alex Ionescu, a security researcher with cyber-security firm Crowdstrike. Only patches for Windows 10 versions were affected, the researcher wrote today in a tweet. Microsoft quietly fixed the issue on Windows 10 Redstone […]

As the saying goes —if at first, you don’t succeed, then try, try again. This is the mantra that Microsoft seems to have taken up for dealing with the patching process meant to mitigate the effects of the Spectre v2 (CVE-2017-5715) vulnerability. The OS maker released yesterday two new Windows […]

Microsoft released an out of band update to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Host Compute Service Shim library (hcsshim). Microsoft announced that it has issued a security update to address a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the Windows Host Compute Service Shim library (hcsshim). […]

Security researchers have discovered a security vulnerability in Oracle Access Manager that can be exploited by a remote attacker to bypass the authentication and take over the account of any user. Security researcher Wolfgang Ettlinger from SEC Consult Vulnerability Lab has discovered a security vulnerability in Oracle Access Manager that can be […]