Security
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Apple Users Not Running The Latest Security Update Might Find Themselves In A Curious Problem
If you’re an Apple user then you probably have your latest updates installed, but if you don’t, then you might…
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RSA’s Report Shows Phishing Attacks make up 50% of all Cyber crime in this quarter, Caution Advised
Black Friday and Cyber Monday are bringing about several special offers for the people all over the world. Unfortunately, with…
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Researchers Find Critical Vulnerability In Optical In-Display Fingerprint Sensors, Allowed Attackers To Unlock Devices Instantly
In-Display Fingerprint sensors seem like an upcoming trend in smartphones. Conventional fingerprint sensors have become quite reliable over the years,…
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U.S Senate Bill Cracks Down On Robocalls, Offenders Face Up To $10,000 In Penalties
U.S Senators John Thune and Ed Markey introduced a bill this Friday which cracks down on illegal spam robocalls. Illegal…
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Vulnerability In Android Exposes Sensitive Data From RSSI Broadcasts, Can Be Used To Locate Users In Local Wifi Networks
Google has been hard at work cleaning up Android’s code and making future releases safer. They have consistently made design…
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D-Link’s Central Wifi-Manager Seems To Be Vulnerable To Privilege Escalation Attacks Through Trojan File
D-Link’s Central Wifi-Manager is quite a nifty tool. It’s a web-based wireless Access Point management tool, enabling you to create…
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DJI Fixes Massive Vulnerability In User Accounts That Could’ve Allowed Hackers To Take Control Of Your Drone And Steal Personal Information
DJI drones are the hot trend of 21st century. However, as functional and well built they are, some vulnerabilities in…
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VirtualBox Zero-Day Vulnerability Goes Public, No Security Patch Yet Available
A zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox was publicly disclosed by an independent vulnerability researcher and exploit developer Sergey Zelenyuk. VirtualBox is…
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WordPress Plugin, WooCommerce’s Critical Vulnerability Patched Via 3.4.6 Update
If you have ever owned an eCommerce website, there is almost cent percent probability that you must have heard about…
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Your Data Might Be At Risk Even In Encrypted Drives, Researchers Find Major Vulnerabilities In Hardware Encryption Present In Some SSDs
This year we have seen a lot of activism on user data and privacy. The Facebook fiasco also happened along…
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Security Flaw In New Bluetooth Chips Could Expose Millions of Users To Remote Attacks
According to a report from theHackerNews Security researchers have found a new vulnerability in Bluetooth chips that could potentially expose…
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Twitter Trolling Becomes Harder With This Change of Policy
Social media is full of trolls but Twitter is a cesspool of toxic insects that attack anything and everything, It…
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Report: Your Brower’s “Do Not Track” Isn’t Respected by Twitter, Facebook and Other Major Players
Right now, if you head to the privacy settings of your browser, there is a feature called “Do Not Track.”…
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Microsoft October 2018 Patch Slightly Flawed and Unable To fully Rectify Jet Database Engine Vulnerability
On the 20th of September, Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) went public with the information of a remove code…
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Phishing Attack on Azure Blog Storage Dodges Users by Displaying a Signed SSL Certificate from Microsoft
A latest phishing attack on Office 365 has been observed to be using a phishing attack which seemingly utilizes a…
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WhatsApp Might Be Getting Ads As Facebook Looks For More Ways To Monetize The App
WhatsApp, the go to texting app for most people these days. It was founded in by 2009 by Brian Acton and…
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Torii Botnet Targeting Poorly Secure IoT Devices
Torii is the codename for a new strain or botnet that has been discovered by Avast’s threat labs team. According to…
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Google Does Damage Control After Chrome Faces A lot Of Backlash For Automatic Sign In Feature In Recent Update
The first thing that most of us noticed was the UI redesign in the latest chrome update underlying which were…
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Firefox Quantum, Beta and Nightly Affected by ‘Reap Firefox’ Crash Attack
A particular vulnerability in the present Firefox browser has been unraveled by the security researcher and basically the creater of…
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EternalBlue Vulnerability Puts Pirated Windows Systems at Malware Risk
Pirated Windows versions have always been vulnerable when it comes to security. A recent report published by Heise Online confirms…
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Unit 42 Researchers Discover Xbash – Malware Which Destroys Linux and Windows Based Databases
A new malware known as ‘Xbash’ has been discovered by Unit 42 researchers, a blog post at Palo Alto Networks…
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Network Manager VPNC is Infected with Username Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
A username privilege escalation vulnerability has been found in the network manager VPNC plugin. This injection vulnerability is exploited by…
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NetBSD 7.2 comes with Security & Stability Enhancements as well as USB 3.0 Support
NetBSD has come out with a new release for the 7.x series. The second feature update of NetBSD 7, NetBSD…
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Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in Apache Struts 2.x Resolved in Update
In an advisory published on the Confluence website maintained by the ASF community, a remote code execution vulnerability in the…
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Windows Task Scheduler Micropatch Released by 0patch
Earlier this week, a user on Twitter who goes by the username SandboxEscaper posted on the social media platform’s feed…
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