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How do you feel about a decade-old vulnerability in a range of Unix-based operating systems, like Linux, OpenBSD, NetBSF, FreeBSD and Solaris? Unfortunately, this question is not a theoretical one as such a vulnerability (identified as CVE-2017-1000364) has been discovered,…
CVE-2017-9948 is a stack buffer overflow vulnerability recently discovered in Microsoft Skype 7.2, 7.35, and 7.36 before 7.37. The Skype flaw involves MSFTEDIT.DLL mishandling of remote RDP clipboard content within the message box, as explained by researchers. The highly severe…
SamSam ransomware has been around since at least March 2016, but research indicates that it is active once again. This time around, the criminals behind the ransomware are demanding a huge amount of ransom, AlientVault researchers say. Related Story: SamSam…
Have you ever pondered on the type of personal information that search giant Google indexes? Perhaps you haven’t? Here’s some food for thought – Google has silently altered its search engine indexing to exclude medical data. Why is that a…
Have you heard of Google Backup and Sync? Apparently, Backup and Sync is a new feature Google is about to start rolling out on June 28. The feature will assist users in backing up their important files to the cloud.…
Earlier this month, security experts from Check Point made a report about a browser hijacker and malware downloader dubbed Fireball. The security company claimed that the Chinese malware had infected more than 250 million systems. Microsoft, on the other hand,…
Windows 10 is vulnerable to a bypass of PatchGuard kernel protection in the operating system. The bypass, dubbed GhostHook, makes the OS vulnerable to rootkits. Even though Windows 10’s protection against rootkit attacks has been known to be quite efficient…
Symantec just fixed three flaws (CVE-2017-6326, CVE-2017-6324, CVE-2017-6325) in the Symantec Messaging Gateway (SMG). The vulnerabilities were of the remote code execution, privilege escalation and file inclusion types. A security advisory addressing the vulnerabilities has been issued. Related Story: Symantec…
Are you a user of OpenVPN? The software patched four vulnerabilities just this week. One of the flaws is quite severe – a remote code execution bug that could allow an authenticated attacker to run code on a compromised box.…
PoS terminals have been a primary victim of hacking attacks in 2016, a new Trustwave report shows. Attacks targeting sales terminals increased to 31% last year, whereas e-commerce incidents fell to 26%. 49% of Data Breaches in 2016 Happened in…
Honda has suffered a WannaCry cyberattack which led to the interruption of one of their domestic vehicle plants in Japan for a whole day. The Japanese automobile company said that it had shut its plant in Sayama, near Tokyo, on…
Kaspersky recently filed anti-trust complaints against Microsoft with the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. The anti-virus company did the same in the end of 2016 with Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service. As to why, Kaspersky believes that Microsoft…
MacRansom and MacSpy are two samples of new Mac malware that has been created by the same person. That person is also offering the two pieces for sale via the malware-as-a-service model on two dark web portals. Potential customers and…
Kaspersky has filed anti-trust complaints against Microsoft with the European Commission and the German Federal Cartel Office. The anti-virus company has already done the same in the end of 2016 with Russia’s Federal Antimonopoly Service. The reason for these measures?…
Executioner (Cellat) ransomware is yet another crypto virus recently discovered by security researchers at MalwareHunterTeam. The Executioner ransomware encrypts the user’s data and appends six random characters to the encrypted files. The crypto virus also changes the desktop wallpaper of…
CryMore ransomware is a new crypto virus which has been created by a hacker known as TMC. The ransomware may encrypt or delete files based on a predefined list of file extensions. To remove CryMore ransomware, read this article carefully…
Google just released patches for CVE-2017-5070 and 29 other flaws in Chrome in the latest stable version of the browser, Chrome 59.0.3071.86. Google paid out $23,500 to external researchers for their findings. Besides the Chrome flaws, a type confusion vulnerability…
For one reason or another, companies often choose to fix serious security gaps in silence. That’s exactly what happened with IBM just recently when they released a workaround quietly, addressing a flaw in its enterprise backup software. The vulnerability, given…
Old malware doesn’t disappear, as evident by recent revivals of old cases. Just yesterday we wrote about the renewed distribution of the well-known Backdoor.Nital and Gh0st RAT. This article is dedicated to another old malware piece of the worm kind…
Duo Security has analyzed the security state of 4.6 million endpoint devices including 3.5 million mobile phones. The devices have been taken from various industries and world regions which makes the analysis quite comprehensive and indicative. The study was based…
