Hacking

Boffins discovered seven new Meltdown and Spectre attacks

Researchers who devised the original Meltdown and Spectre attacks disclosed seven new variants that leverage on a technique known as transient…

7 years ago

Cyber espionage group used CVE-2018-8589 Windows Zero-Day in Middle East Attacks

Kaspersky revealed that the CVE-2018-8589  Windows 0-day fixed by Microsoft Nov. 2018 Patch Tuesday has been exploited by at least one APT group…

7 years ago

Facebook flaw could have exposed private info of users and their friends

Security experts from Imperva reported a new Facebook flaw that could have exposed private info of users and their friends A…

7 years ago

Cathay Pacific waited six months before disclosing the security breach

Cathay Pacific has admitted that it was under attack for three months and it took six months to disclose the…

7 years ago

Google Services down due to BGP leak, traffic hijacked through Russia, China, and Nigeria

Google services were partially inaccessible on Monday due to a BGP leak that caused traffic redirection through Russia, China, and…

7 years ago

Expert found a way to bypass Windows UAC by mocking trusted Directory

David Wells, a security expert from Tenable, devised a method to bypass Windows’ User Account Control (UAC) by spoofing the…

7 years ago

Reading the Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report

According to Android Ecosystem Security Transparency Report the number of potentially harmful applications has fallen from 0.66% in Lollipop to…

7 years ago

A critical flaw in GDPR compliance plugin for WordPress exploited in the wild

A critical security vulnerability affects a GDPR compliance plugin for WordPress has been already exploited in the wild to take…

7 years ago

CVE-2018-15961: Adobe ColdFusion Flaw exploited in attacks in the wild

Experts at Volexity discovered that a recently patched remote code execution flaw (CVE-2018-15961) affecting the Adobe ColdFusion has been exploited in the…

7 years ago

Security Affairs newsletter Round 188 – News of the week

A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs. Let me…

7 years ago

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