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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.…
If you are a user of the Brave browser, you are probably aware that its developers announced the integration of Tor into a new private tab feature. The new functionality integrates Tor into the browser and gives users a new…
Have you heard of the Data Transfer Project (DTP)? It is a recently announced open-source, service-to-service project created by Google, in partnership with Microsoft, Facebook and Twitter. The project is in fact a data portability platform intended mainly for consumers…
A new botnet has been detected by security researchers at NewSky security, with their discovery being confirmed by researchers from Qihoo 360 Netlab, Rapid7, and Greynoise. The botnet in question has compromised more than 18,000 routers in a single day,…
Cisco has released more fixes for a range of critical and high severity vulnerabilities found in several groups of products – Policy Suite, SD-WAN, and Nexus. Let’s have a closer look at the Policy Suite flaws. Vulnerabilities in Cisco Policy…
Microsoft is initiating a bug bounty program that is focused on customer security. The program is called Identity Bounty Program and it will offer bounties ranging from $500 to $100,000 for unveiling security vulnerability in the company’s identity services. What…
Blackgear is a previously detected cyber espionage campaign that dates back to 2008. The malware has been known to target organizations in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan, with the targets primarily being public sector agencies and high-tech companies. According to…
It is a trend that is not going away – cybercriminals will always be attempting to circumvent security defenses with the assistance of increasingly sophisticated techniques. This leads us to the so-called fileless malware where the effectiveness of an attack…
Yet another vulnerability, identified as CVE-2018-0369, in Cisco software has been patched. Rated severe, the flaw is described as an IPv4 Fragmentation vulnerability which could lead to a denial of service if used with three other medium severity bugs. CVE-2018-0369…
GitHub has been known to support JavaScript and Ruby by providing security alerts, and now the same becomes valid for Python. In other words, GitHub has updated its security alerts feature by adding support for Python projects. This relatively new…
