Hacking

According to VPN Mentor, a privacy advocate firm which reviews virtual private networks (VPN), after an in-depth research, it has been discovered that three VPN service providers with millions of customers worldwide are leaking sensitive data such as users’ IP addresses – These VPNs include HotSpot Shield, PureVPN, and Zenmate. What Is A VPN Used […]

Researchers presented findings on a new strain of point-of-sale malware, dubbed PinkKite, that was spotted by security experts at Kroll Cyber Security. A new strain of point-of-sale malware, dubbed PinkKite, was spotted by security experts at Kroll Cyber Security. PinkKite was first discovered in 2017 while the experts were instigating into a […]

Adds bug bounty class for Meltdown and Spectre attacks on Windows and Azure Microsoft has created a new class of bug bounty specifically for speculative execution bugs like January’s Meltdown and Spectre processor CPU design flaws. Noting that the Project Zero discoveries “represented a major advancement in the research in […]

Ilia Luk-Zilberman, the Chief Technical Officer (CTO) of CTS Labs, the company behind yesterday’s disclosure of 13 vulnerabilities affecting AMD processors, has published an open letter today, explaining his company’s controversial actions that managed to enrage a huge portion of the tech and security research communities. CTS Labs faced a massive […]

Earlier this month, Microsoft announced it would be bundling Intel microcode (BIOS) updates meant to fix the graver version of the Spectre vulnerability as Windows Update packages made available via the Microsoft Update Catalog portal. Yesterday, Microsoft greatly expanded the number of such packages, extending support from the initial Skylake 6th […]

Adobe has patched a set of critical vulnerabilities which can lead to remote code execution, information leaks, and file deletion. On Tuesday, the tech giant’s security advisory noted that the vulnerabilities impact Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Connect, and Adobe Dreamweaver CC. Two vulnerabilities which relate to Flash, a use-after-free flaw (CVE-2018-4919) and […]

SAP released March 2018 SAP Security Patch Day that addresses High and Medium priority vulnerabilities in its products, including three decade-old issues in SAP Internet Graphics Server. March 2018 SAP Security Patch Day includes 10 Security Notes, three rated High priority and 7 rated as Medium priority. The company also released […]

  Hackers allegedly stole hundreds of reports using a security flaw in an online tool used by the police. In normal circumstances, police are the investigating authority but Gwent County Police in the United Kingdom is in hot water and being investigated for not informing complainers that reports they filed have […]