Security

Red Hat reverts Spectre (CVE-2017-5715) security updates due to boot issues reported by customers

Red Hat is going to release updates that are reverting previous patches for the Spectre vulnerability (Variant 2, aka CVE-2017-5715).…

8 years ago

The US Global surveillance bill has been signed by President Trump

US Government missed a historic opportunity to reform a dangerous surveillance law that opens to a global surveillance, instead it…

8 years ago

Meltdown and Spectre patches have a variable impact and can cause unwanted reboots, Intel warns

Intel has published the results of the test conducted on the Meltdown and Spectre patches and their impact on performance confirming…

8 years ago

North Korea Group 123 involved in at least 6 different hacking campaigns in 2017

North Korean hackers belonging to the North Korea Group 123 have conducted at least six different massive malware campaigns during…

8 years ago

Oracle January 2018 Critical Patch Update also addresses Spectre and Meltdown

Oracle rolled out the January 2018 Critical Patch Update that includes 237 security fixes in its products, the majority of…

8 years ago

Spectre/Meltdown patches had a significant impact on SolarWinds’s AWS infrastructure

Analysis conducted by SolarWinds on the impact on the performance of the Spectre/Meltdown patches on its own Amazon Web Services…

8 years ago

Lenovo spotted and fixed a backdoor in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switches

Lenovo discovered a firmware backdoor in RackSwitch and BladeCenter networking switch families during an internal security audit. Security experts at Levono…

8 years ago

Game of Drones – Researchers devised a technique to detect drone surveillance

A group of Israeli researchers at Ben Gurion University have built a proof-of-concept system against surveillance operated a surveillance drone.…

8 years ago

Security issue in Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) allows to gain full remote access to corporate devices

Security researchers from F-Secure have discovered a new issue in Intel's Advanced Management Technology (AMT) implementation that can be exploited…

8 years ago

Never too late, Skype supports end-to-end encryption for new Private Conversations feature

It's official, Microsoft's Skype is rolling out a new feature called Private Conversations, which uses end-to-end encryption. The latest version of…

8 years ago

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