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An alarming discovery was recently made during the Black Hat conference held in Las Vegas. Security researchers from Positive Technologies reported that vulnerabilities in mPOS (mobile Point-of-Sale) machines allow attackers to take over customer accounts and steal credit card data.…
Social Mapper is a new open source intelligence tool that uses facial recognition to correlate social media profiles. The tool has been developed by Trustwave, a company that provides ethical hacking services. Apparently, the tool has already been tested in…
A warning has been issued by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) about a severe vulnerability that could be leveraged in DoS attacks in the open-source BIND software. The vulnerability was discovered by security researcher Tony Finch of the University of…
Bitcoin owners that use Bitcoin ATMs should be extra careful. Security researchers have uncovered malware that is specifically crafted to target these ATMs. This malware is being traded on the Dark Web, and its price is quite high. The shift…
Part of the source code of Snapchat was leaked and made public on GitHub. Apparently, an iOS update in May exposed a small amount of the app’s source code. However, Snapchat was able to identify the mistake and rectify it…
A computer virus outbreak on the evening of August 3 compromised Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC), the world’s largest dedicated independent semiconductor foundry. The outbreak affected a number of computer systems and fab tools in Taiwan. The virus that hit…
A couple of new critical security flaws were found in HP printers. CVE-2018-5924, CVE-2018-5925 in HP Printers One of the vulnerabilities resides in the firmware of certain HP printers, and it has been classified as very critical. This vulnerability is…
A new attack on Wi-Fi protected access protocols has been discovered. The new technique to crack WPA PSK (Pre-Shared Key) passwords enables outside users to capture access credentials easily. The discovery of the attack was accidental – the Hashcat developers…
A new vulnerability has been discovered, CVE-2018-14773, that affects Drupal, the popular open-source content management system. More specifically, the vulnerability resides in a component of a third-party library called Symfony Http Foundation component. The component is part of Drupal Core,…
Cisco just announced a big acquisition, in the size of $2.35 billion in cash. The company is acquiring cloud-based identity and access management solutions provider Duo Security. “Cisco (NASDAQ: CSCO) today announced its intent to acquire privately-held Duo Security, headquartered…
Last year, security researchers uncovered that the popular PC cleaner CCleaner was backdoored. Older versions of Piriform CCleaner -v5.33.6162 and CCleaner Cloud v1.07.3191- had been compromised, and as a result millions of users were affected. New Changes in CCleaner Version…
Numerous Steam users have reported that a game titled Abstractism is consuming way too much CPU power to mine for cryptocurrency. The game was also selling marketplace items that were masqueraded as goods from popular games such as Team Fortress…
New security statistics reveal that spam is one of the most common methods used to distribute malware to potential victims. Because of the high click rate, malicious email messages continue to be a preferred technique among cybercriminals. F-Secure researchers recently…
Ubuntu 18.04 has been updated with a brand new security guidance released by the National Cyber Security Centre, a department of GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters). The guidance was developed after testing on devices running Ubuntu 18.04 LTS. More about the…
Printers are often the weakest link in an organization, with printer vulnerabilities being exploited in various malicious campaigns to compromise entire networks. One such vulnerability was disclosed in 2017, and enabled hackers to carry out remote code execution attacks on…
CVE-2018-10901 is the identifier of a recently disclosed vulnerability in Linux kernel. More specifically, the vulnerability resides in the KVM virtualization subsystem, a full virtualization solution for Linux on x86 hardware containing virtualization extensions. Using KVM, a user can run…
Perhaps you know but John McAfee hasn’t been part of the company for more than 20 years. However, his name continues to be associated with it, despite his many other business endeavors. One of his most recent business ventures has…
EU’s fine on Google in the size of $5 billion has been followed by a wave of penalties against huge corporations. It turns out that the European Commission has issued a fine against four big manufacturers of consumer electronics –…
Microsoft has released lots of fixes for the latest versions of Windows 10. More particularly, the company has released Windows 10 build 17134.191 for Windows 10 version 1803 also known as the April 2018 Update, and Build 16299.579 for Windows…
Bluetooth exploits are not anything new on the hacking horizon but they can cause security risks to vulnerable devices. A new vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-5383, fits the description of a great threat as it is a highly critical cryptographic flaw.…
