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Two weeks ago we reported about a 7-year-old critical remote code execution vulnerability in Samba networking software (re-implementation of SMB networking protocol) that allows a remote hacker to take full control of a vulnerable Linux and Unix machines. To know Read More …
Infamous hacking group Shadow Brokers has promised to release more zero-day exploits, such as the one that has made life a misery for some 300,000 people across the world via WannaCry. Now, the group isn’t just after wreaking havoc, but Read More …
What if your laptop is listening to everything that is being said during your phone calls or other people near your laptop and even recording video of your surrounding without your knowledge? Sounds really scary! Isn’t it? But this scenario Read More …
Yahoo is once more at the center of a security scandal after an ImageMagick library exploit was found leaking user email content. The discovery was made by security researcher Chris Evans, who demonstrated the exploit, showing just how easy it was Read More …
Cisco Systems has finally released an update for its IOS and IOS XE software to address a critical vulnerability, disclosed nearly two months back in the CIA Vault 7 leak, that affects more than 300 of its switch models. The Read More …
Miscreants can turn the tables on Microsoft and use its own antivirus engine against Windows users – by abusing it to install malware on vulnerable machines. A particularly nasty security flaw exists in Redmond’s anti-malware software, which is packaged and Read More …
In the digital world we live in, technologies are rapidly evolving. Cyber threats are not lagging behind. While developers build more and more complex programs, hackers find new, smarter ways to attack. New threats can break connections that were considered Read More …
That vulnerability that Intel discovered and disclosed last week after going undetected for almost a decade is much worse than originally thought as it allows hackers to remotely gain full control over affected PCs running Windows, without even needing a Read More …
Updated: Since the below-reported vulnerability is highly critical and it would take a few weeks for sysadmins to protect their enterprise network, the research team has not yet disclosed the technical details of the vulnerability. Meanwhile, I have talked with Read More …
The internal inter-chip communications of devices like smartphones are a “huge, mostly unaudited attack surface,” according to Gal Beniamini of Google’s Project Zero, in his promised follow-up to last week’s demonstration of how to attack Wi‑Fi chips over the air. Read More …