Security
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Chromium 73 Adds DuckDuckGo As A Default Search Engine Option Within Chrome
DuckDuckGo is an internet search engine, and it looks like any other search engine, however, under the hood, it really…
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Chrome Zero-Day Exploit Patched, Users Should Update Immediately
Security experts at Google have recommended that all Chrome users immediately update their browser, as the zero-day exploit labelled CVE-2019-5786…
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Researchers Find A New Method to Run Malicious Code From Your Browser Silently
Cyber attacks are common nowadays with precautionary measures becoming a necessity. In the latest event, a new browser attack has…
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Millions of Swedish Health Hotline Calls Exposed Online in a Massive Case of Data Breach
Data breach is becoming quite a nightmare for a lot of people with new breaches coming every now and then.…
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New Malware Might Make macOS Vulnerable Via Steganography
Malwares are usually targeted at Windows users. This is mainly because it accounts for a majority of the userbase around…
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Logitech Options App Plagued By PID Exploit, Security Vulnerability Fixed With New Update
Logitech Options is an app that controls all of Logitech’s mice and keyboards. It offers several different configurations like Changing…
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Facebook Has Another Slip Up, Exposes Millions of Private Photos to Third-Party Devs
A newly discovered Facebook bug has exposed private photos of nearly 6.8 million users. From September 12th to September 25th,…
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PhpMyAdmin Releases Security Update 4.8.4, Patches XSRF and XSS vulnerabilities
Cyber attacks are getting common day-by-day. Every other company is being hit by cyber attacks. The more time you spent…
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Google to Shut Down Google+ 4 Months Earlier After Second Data Hack
Google+ still hadn’t recovered from the data leak it suffered in October. And now it has to go through the…
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Adobe Addresses Critical Vulnerability CVE-2018-15982 in Flash Player as Report of an Exploit Makes Rounds
Adobe security bulletin just announced the release of a critical security update for its Flash Player. This recent update addresses…
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Out-of-Bounds Vulnerability In Microsoft VBScript Can Cause Internet Explorer To Crash
Microsoft VBScript is actually an active scripting language modeled on Visual Basic. It’s very similar to visual basic and can be…
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NSA Leaked Tool Used to Exploit Computers, UPnProxy Vulnerability Surfaces
IT has been over a year since The National Security Agency (NSA) hacking tool was leaked online but its aftermath…
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Critical Flaw In USPS’s Website Risked Data Of Millions Of Users
The United States Postal Service (USPS) has fixed its broken API that had exposed the account details of 60 million…
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Select Xorg X11 Server Versions Are Vulnerable To Privilege Escalation Exploits, OpenBSD and CentOS Affected
Xorg is a very famous X window system used in Linux. It’s a graphical user interface that uses the X11 standard, which…
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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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