Military worldwide have publicly shared online their exercise routes recorded through the fitness tracker Strava revealing the fitness sessions conducted inside or near military bases We discussed many times privacy risks related to IoT devices, here we are to discuss an alarming case, fitness tracker Strava revealed details of Military Bases. American and allied military worldwide have publicly shared their exercise […]
Over the weekend, Microsoft rolled out out-of-band updates to disable mitigations for one of the Spectre attack variants because they can cause systems to become unstable. The situation is becoming embarrassing! Just after the release of the Meltdown and Spectre security updates Intel excluded any problems for their deployments citing testing activities of conducted by other tech […]
On Saturday Malwarebytes issued a buggy update to its home and enterprise products that caused serious problems for the users, including excessive memory usage, connectivity issues, and in some cases system crashes. A buggy update rolled out over the weekend by Malwarebytes to its home and enterprise products caused serious problem for the users, including […]
Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 4) -Let’s try to summarize the most important event occurred last week in 3 minutes. The threats that most of all characterized this week are IoT botnets and malvertising. Security experts at NewSky’s believe the operators of the recently discovered Satori botnet are launching a new massive hacking campaign against routers to infect and recruit them in the […]
Lenovo has fixed a hardcoded password vulnerability in Lenovo Fingerprint Manager Pro affecting a dozen laptop models running Windows 7, 8 and the 8.1 OS. The PC vendor Lenovo has fixed a hardcoded password vulnerability, tracked as (CVE-2017-3762), affecting a dozen Lenovo laptop models that run versions of Microsoft Windows 7, 8 and the 8.1 […]
The shipping giant Maersk chair Jim Hagemann Snabe revealed its company reinstalled 45,000 PCs and 4,000 Servers after NotPetya the attack. The shipping giant Maersk was one of the companies that suffered the NotPetya massive attack, in August 2017 the company announced that it would incur hundreds of millions in U.S. dollar losses due to the ransomware massive […]
Intel recommended OEMs, cloud service providers, system manufacturers, software vendors as well as end users to stop deploying the current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches. While the Linux father Linus Torvalds defines the Spectre updates “utter garbage”, Intel warns to stop installing current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches. Intel explained its approach in its technical note about Spectre mitigation […]
The popular Linus Torvalds harshly criticizes the Spectre patches issued by Intel to patch the Spectre variant 2 flaw affecting its processor chips. Security experts harshly criticize the patch issued by Intel to patch the Spectre variant 2 flaw affecting its processor chips. Intel has decided to do not disable the prediction feature in future chips until the […]
Cybersecurity week Round-Up (2018, Week 3) -Let’s try to summarize the most important event occurred last week in 3 minutes. The week started with the discovery of a new variant of the dreaded Mirai Botnet dubbed Okiru, for the first time a malware targets ARC based IoT devices, billions of IoT devices are potentially at […]
Red Hat is going to release updates that are reverting previous patches for the Spectre vulnerability (Variant 2, aka CVE-2017-5715). Just after the release of Spectre and Meltdown patches many experts argued a significative impact on performance and stability of systems running them. While Meltdown and Spectre Variant 1 could be theoretically being addressed by […]