- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 1st, 2018
GandCrab Ransomware Spreads Using Multiple Known Vulnerabilities
The malware forces reboot to start encrypting the disk
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 28th, 2018
50 Million Facebook Users Affected by Account Take Over Security Issue
40 million more also having their access tokens reset
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 27th, 2018
Study Finds 83 Percent of Home Routers are Vulnerable to Attacks
28% of them are exposed to critical or high security risks
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 21st, 2018
Zero-Day Windows Jet Database Engine Vulnerability Allows Remote Code Execution
Out-of-bounds write needs user interaction
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 20th, 2018
Western Digital My Cloud NAS Vulnerable to Authentication Bypass for Over a Year
Issue still not fixed although WD was notified a year ago
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 10th, 2018
Zero-Day Tor Browser Exploit Bypassed NoScript to Execute Malicious Code
Bug fixed by NoScript developer four hours later
- Security
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- September 8th, 2018
390K Websites at Risk Because of Public .Git Repos
Misconfigured servers exposed database passwords, API keys
- Security
- By Marius Nestor
- July 10th, 2018
New Variant of Spectre Security Flaw Discovered: Speculative Buffer Overflows
It's a variant of the first Spectre security vulnerability
- Linux Distributions
- By Marius Nestor
- June 16th, 2018
Lazy FPU Vulnerability Now Patched for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7, CentOS 7 PCs
Users are urged to update their installations immediately
- Microsoft
- By Bogdan Popa
- June 14th, 2018
Microsoft Explains How a Windows Security Bug Gets a Fix (Or Not)
Company details security servicing criteria
- Security
- By Bogdan Popa
- May 3rd, 2018
Microsoft Fixes Critical Remote Code Execution Flaw in hcsshim Library
Updated version of the library available on GitHub
- Security
- By Marius Nestor
- April 23rd, 2018
Nvidia Tegra X1 Coldboot Vulnerability Lets Anyone Hack a Nintendo Switch
An unpatchable flaw was found in Nvidia Tegra X1 chip
- Linux
- By Marius Nestor
- April 4th, 2018
Canonical Outs Major Kernel Update for Ubuntu 17.10 to Fix 22 Vulnerabilities
It's also available for Ubuntu 16.04 LTS HWE systems
- Security
- By Marius Nestor
- March 28th, 2018
After Meltdown and Spectre, Intel CPUs Are Now Vulnerable to BranchScope Attacks Updated
BranchScope is a newly discovered side-channel attack
- Apple
- By Marius Nestor
- March 26th, 2018
Apple's iOS 11 Camera QR Code Reader Is Vulnerable to Malicious Attacks
It can be tricked to redirect users to malicious websites
- Security
- By Marius Nestor
- February 13th, 2018
Telegram Zero-Day Vulnerability Lets Hackers Pwn Your PC to Mine Cryptocurrency
It can also be used to deliver multi-purpose malware
- Other Tips, Tricks and Tutorials
- By Marius Nestor
- January 13th, 2018
How to Check If Your Linux PC Is Vulnerable to Meltdown & Spectre Security Flaws
These are the worse chip flaws in the history of computing