Siemens disclosed several vulnerabilities in some of its SICLOCK central plant clocks, including ones that have been rated as âcritical.â Siemens is warning of the presence of six vulnerabilities in some of its SICLOCK central plant clocks that used to synchronize time in industrial environments. “In the event of failure or loss of reception from the […]
This week researchers demonstrated that most Android phones released since 2012 are still vulnerable to the RAMpage attack. In 2012, security researchers identified a bug in modern DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips that could lead to memory corruption. In 2015, Google Project Zero researchers demonstrated “rowhammer“, a working exploit of this attack providing privilege […]
Iranian APT groups continue to very active, recently Charming Kitten cyber spies attempted to pose as an Israeli cyber-security firm that uncovered previous hacking campaigns. The Iranian Charming Kitten ATP group, aka Newscaster or Newsbeef, launched spear phishing attacks against people interested in reading reports about it. The Newscaster group made the headlines in 2014 when experts at iSight issued a report describing the […]
Some Samsung devices are randomly sending photos taken with the camera to contacts in the address book without permission. Do you have a Samsung smartphone? There is something you need to know. Some devices are randomly sending photos taken with the camera to contacts in the address book without permission. The problem affected Galaxy S9 and S9+ […]
Yesterday the social network giant Facebook started notifying 800,000 users affected by a blocking bug. The company has already fixed it. When a Facebook user blocks someone, the blocked user will be not able to interact with him, this means that he will not see his posts, it will not able to start conversations on Messenger or […]
On Friday, Facebook provided a 748-page long report to Congress that confirms the social network shared data with at least 61 tech firms after 2015. This is the worst period in the history of the social network, now Facebook admitted to having shared users’ data with 61 tech firms. The problem is that Facebook allowed tech companies […]
Microsoft published technical details of 2 zero-days that have been recently discovered after someone uploaded a weaponized PDF file to VirusTotal. Security researchers from Microsoft have published technical details of two zero-day vulnerabilities that have been recently discovered after someone uploaded a weaponized PDF file to VirusTotal. The two issues were addressed by Microsoft with […]
NSA is deleting hundreds of millions of records of phone calls and text messages dating back to 2015 due to technical irregularities. The US National Security Agency announced it is deleting hundreds of millions of records of phone calls and text messages dating back to 2015 due to technical irregularities in some data received from telecommunications service providers. “Consistent with […]
The maintainers of the Trezor multi-cryptocurrency wallet service reported a phishing attack against some of its users that occurred during the weekend. I had some issues yesterday, when accessing your site. It seems to be related with DNS. Is https://t.co/wGje8x5lRN legit? — Carsten đčđ ⥠(@CarstenBKK) July 1, 2018 The attack appears more complex respect […]
FireEye reported the PROPagate code injection technique that was observed for the first time in a malware distribution campaign in the wild. Security experts from FireEye have documented the PROPagate code injection technique that was observed for the first time in a malware distribution campaign in the wild. The PROPagate code injection technique was first discovered […]