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New Mac Malware Exploits GateKeeper Bypass Bug that Apple Left Unpatched

New Mac Malware Exploits GateKeeper Bypass Bug that Apple Left Unpatched
June 25, 2019Mohit Kumar
Cybersecurity researchers from Intego are warning about possible active exploitation of an unpatched security vulnerability in Apple'...

OpenSSH Now Encrypts Secret Keys in Memory Against Side-Channel Attacks

OpenSSH Now Encrypts Secret Keys in Memory Against Side-Channel Attacks
June 22, 2019Mohit Kumar
In recent years, several groups of cybersecurity researchers have disclosed dozens of memory side-channel vulnerabilities in modern proce...

PoC Released for Outlook Flaw that Microsoft Patched 6 Month After Discovery

PoC Released for Outlook Flaw that Microsoft Patched 6 Month After Discovery
June 22, 2019Swati Khandelwal
As we reported two days ago, Microsoft this week released an updated version of its Outlook app for Android that patches a severe remote c...

Beware! Playing Untrusted Videos On VLC Player Could Hack Your Computer

Beware! Playing Untrusted Videos On VLC Player Could Hack Your Computer
June 21, 2019Swati Khandelwal
If you use VLC media player on your computer and haven't updated it recently, don't you even dare to play any untrusted, randomly...

Security Flaw in Pre-Installed Dell Support Software Affects Million of Computers

Security Flaw in Pre-Installed Dell Support Software Affects Million of Computers
June 21, 2019Swati Khandelwal
Dell's SupportAssist utility that comes pre-installed on millions of Dell laptops and PCs contains a security vulnerability that cou...

Important Flaw in Outlook App for Android Affects Over 100 Millions Users

Important Flaw in Outlook App for Android Affects Over 100 Millions Users
June 20, 2019Swati Khandelwal
Update (22 June 2019)  — More technical details and proof-of-concept for the OutLook for Android vulnerability has been released that we...

Tor Browser 8.5.2 Released — Update to Fix Critical Firefox Vulnerability

Tor Browser 8.5.2 Released — Update to Fix Critical Firefox Vulnerability
June 20, 2019Mohit Kumar
Important Update (21 June 2019) ➤  The Tor Project on Friday released second update ( Tor Browser 8.5.3 ) for its privacy web-browser that...

New Critical Oracle WebLogic Flaw Under Active Attack — Patch Now

New Critical Oracle WebLogic Flaw Under Active Attack — Patch Now
June 19, 2019Mohit Kumar
Oracle has released an out-of-band emergency software update to patch a newly discovered critical vulnerability in the WebLogic Server. ...

5 Keys to Improve Your Cybersecurity

5 Keys to Improve Your Cybersecurity
June 18, 2019The Hacker News
Cybersecurity isn't easy. If there was a product or service you could buy that would just magically solve all of your cybersecurity p...

RAMBleed Attack – Flip Bits to Steal Sensitive Data from Computer Memory

RAMBleed Attack – Flip Bits to Steal Sensitive Data from Computer Memory
June 12, 2019Swati Khandelwal
A team of cybersecurity researchers yesterday revealed details of a new side-channel attack on dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) that c...

New Flaw in WordPress Live Chat Plugin Lets Hackers Steal and Hijack Sessions

New Flaw in WordPress Live Chat Plugin Lets Hackers Steal and Hijack Sessions
June 11, 2019Mohit Kumar
Security researchers have been warning about a critical vulnerability they discovered in one of a popular WordPress Live Chat plugin, whi...

Hacker Discloses Second Zero-Day to Bypass Patch for Windows EoP Flaw

Hacker Discloses Second Zero-Day to Bypass Patch for Windows EoP Flaw
June 07, 2019Wang Wei
An anonymous security researcher going by the name of SandboxEscaper today publicly shared a second zero-day exploit that can be used to byp...

New Brute-Force Botnet Targeting Over 1.5 Million RDP Servers Worldwide

New Brute-Force Botnet Targeting Over 1.5 Million RDP Servers Worldwide
June 07, 2019Swati Khandelwal
Security researchers have discovered an ongoing sophisticated botnet campaign that is currently brute-forcing more than 1.5 million publi...

Cryptocurrency Firm Itself Hacked Its Customers to Protect Their Funds From Hackers

Cryptocurrency Firm Itself Hacked Its Customers to Protect Their Funds From Hackers
June 06, 2019Mohit Kumar
Are you using Komodo's Agama Wallet to store your KMD and BTC cryptocurrencies? Were your funds also unauthorisedly transferred ove...

Critical Flaws Found in Widely Used IPTV Software for Online Streaming Services

Critical Flaws Found in Widely Used IPTV Software for Online Streaming Services
June 06, 2019Wang Wei
Security researchers have discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in a popular IPTV middleware platform that is currently being used...

SUPRA Smart TV Flaw Lets Attackers Hijack Screens With Any Video

SUPRA Smart TV Flaw Lets Attackers Hijack Screens With Any Video
June 03, 2019Wang Wei
I have said it before, and I will say it again — Smart devices are one of the dumbest technologies, so far, when it comes to protecting u...

Hackers Stole Customers' Credit Cards from 103 Checkers and Rally's Restaurants

Hackers Stole Customers' Credit Cards from 103 Checkers and Rally's Restaurants
May 31, 2019Swati Khandelwal
If you have swiped your payment card at the popular Checkers and Rally's drive-through restaurant chains in past 2-3 years, you shoul...

Flipboard Database Hacked — Users' Account Information Exposed

Flipboard Database Hacked — Users' Account Information Exposed
May 29, 2019Mohit Kumar
Flipboard, a popular social sharing and news aggregator service used by over 150 million people, has disclosed that its databases contain...

Update: Hacker Disclosed 4 New Microsoft Zero-Day Exploits in Last 24 Hours

Update: Hacker Disclosed 4 New Microsoft Zero-Day Exploits in Last 24 Hours
May 23, 2019Mohit Kumar
Less than 24 hours after publicly disclosing an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Windows 10 , the anonymous hacker going by online alias ...

PoC Exploit For Unpatched Windows 10 Zero-Day Flaw Published Online

PoC Exploit For Unpatched Windows 10 Zero-Day Flaw Published Online
May 22, 2019Mohit Kumar
An anonymous hacker with an online alias "SandboxEscaper" today released proof-of-concept (PoC) exploit code for a new zero-day...
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