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A rare DDoS (distributed denial-of-service) attack has been registered on the Internet’s DNS root servers. More particularly, four nodes – B, C, G, and H – have been affected by slight timeouts. Two different attacks have been carried out by…
Microsoft’s December Patch Tuesday is already a fact. MS15-DEC contains twelve security bulletins, eight of which critical and four – important. All critical updates are dealing with remote code execution vulnerabilities. Two of the important updates are taking care of…
Multiple user complaints have been registered concerning Microsoft’s latest Windows 10 v 1511 update KB 3122947. Many users say that they got the update but it failed to install. As a result, error 0x80070643 was displayed. However, not all Windows…
A new rare technique, used by a cybercriminal group to steal payment card data, has been identified by security researchers. Cyber criminals are using a piece of sophisticated malware that is activated before the Windows operating system boots. Hence, the…
In the beginning of 2015, the security researchers Gabriel Lawrence and Chris Frohoff revealed a Remote Code Execution vulnerability that could be exploited via the Apache Commons Collections. The latter is just one of the most well-known and widely used…
A new Trojan targeting Android devices – Rootnik – has just been analyzed by security vendors. Rootnik is designed to use a customized commercial root tool known as Root Assistant, developed by a Chinese company. Root Assistant was developed to…
Here are the results of our poll… Windows updates should be as painless as possible. However, we’ve been seeing mostly awkwardness coming from latest Microsoft patches. The way Windows updates are installed on your machine seems to be more important…
Windows 10 may be advertised as the best version of Microsoft’s operating system. However, its dubious reputation among users and professionals has flipped the coin multiple times. There may be two sides to every story, but Microsoft really needs to…
If you haven’t heard – we’re in the midst of a ransomware tsunami. However, disasters often come in pairs. The vicious ransomware attacks are triggered by a strong current of fake tech-support scams. The double threat is currently sweeping away…
When a series of malicious attacks are taking place, be sure that botnets are involved. Botnets are one of the most dangerous cyber threats, compromising both network and home computers. As you probably know, a botnet is a group of…
If your offline reality pretty much involves around being onlinе when awake, then you must ask yourself how secure your information is. More precisely, think about your password habits. Are they healthy enough to be bypassed by security breaches, identity…
Not only regular, tax-paying people impatiently await Christmas – cyber crooks are just as restless. Yes, malicious software doesn’t take vacations and it ‘works’ all year round. However, with Christmas just around the corner, malicious actors are suddenly a tad…
Throughout the years, the Pirate Bay has been on and off multiple times. The torrent tracking website and its founders have been prosecuted and charged. There’s even a specific term coined for the matter – the Pirate Bay trial –…
Do you know what day is today? It’s November 30th and it’s the Day of Computer Security! This annual celebration is dedicated not only to computer geeks and professionals but to all PC users around the Web. The initiative was…
Potentially unwanted applications, also known as potentially unwanted programs (PUPs and PUAs) are a major pain for both home and enterprise users. Considering how vulnerable an enterprise environment can be and how sneaky a suspicious browser extension is, Microsoft has…
Have you heard of Mr. Grey? Well, not that one. The Mr. Grey we are talking about is a Russian hacker that is discovered to have participated in the theft of 1.2 billion passwords from 420.000 websites. According to both…
A new vulnerability has been discovered. It affects some VPN services and can be leveraged to disclose real IP addresses. Among the users who are endangered by this flaw are the active users of BitTorrent. The vulnerability, dubbed ‘Port Fail’,…
A new research on 4000 devices from 70 different vendors reveals the alarming reuse of private keys. The research has been led by Stefan Viehböck from SEC Consult. The senior security consultant has investigated the HTTPS certificates and SSH keys…
A new version of CryptoWall arrived in the beginning of November. Some researchers immediately dubbed it CryptoWall 4.0, while others were more precautious and referred to it as to a ‘point release’. A couple of weeks later, all doubts evaporated.…
You would think that a corporate giant such as Microsoft would deal with an ongoing issue in a gallant and user-friendly way. However, lately things appear to be more chaotic than gallant over at MS headquarters. And we have one…
