Security
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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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Apache Struts 2.3.25 and 2.5.17 resolve Cryptojacking Exploit Vulnerability
Information regarding a severe vulnerability found in Apache Struts was revealed last week. A proof of concept of the vulnerability…
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Dell EMC VPlex GeoSynchrony Users Requested to Upgrade to v6.1 to Avoid Insecure File Permissions Vulnerability
An insecure file permissions vulnerability has been discovered in the Dell EMC VPlex Geosynchrony. It’s found to affect versions older…
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Android Vulnerability Leaks Sensitive Data through WiFi Broadcast
A vulnerability has been found in the Android operating system which broadcasts sensitive system data through WiFi broadcasting signals. This…
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Linux Kernel 4.20 to drop NSA-developed Speck Algorithm
Linux kernel is one of the most common kernels found underlying operating systems. Its latest released version is 4.18.5 and…
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User Impersonation Vulnerability found in ownCloud v0.1.2
ownCloud is a client-server software which grants administrators several privileges such as carrying out commands by acting as the intended…
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Q4OS v2.6 updates Trinity to version 14.0.5
The Debain-based Linux distribution Q4OS has just released its version 2.6. Still a part of the version 2.x branch, this…
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Nitrux 1.0.15 brings Kernel 4.18.5 and Plasma 5.13.4 for Most Secure and Integrated Performance Yet
Nitrux 1.0.15 has just hit the shelves following a release statement last week. Nitrux is an Ubuntu-based desktop Linux distribution…
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Linux From Scratch & Beyond Linux From Scratch 8.3 Release uses Linux Kernel 4.18.5
Linux From Scratch version 8.3 has been announced by its renowned editor, Bruce Dubbs, along with Beyond Linux From Scratch…
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A Round Up of Firefox Updates: v62.0 Brings CSS Shape and Font Support
Mozilla has pushed out a whole round of updates to its web browsing products over the last few days. Mozilla…
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