CYBERPOL Organization urges a joint effort between private firms and law enforcement to remove illegal and harmful content from the Internet. CYBERPOL, the International Cyber Security Organization ICSO, said that illegal and harmful content capable of affecting the physical, emotional and psychological well-being of all Internet users are increasing at alarming and disturbing rates. It […]
Security Expert Brett Buerhaus has discovered a critical flaw on admin.google.com, which could be exploited by to Hijack an account and disable 2FA Authentication. Even the giants have their Achilles heel, the Google Apps administrator console is affected by a critical cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to force a Google Apps admins […]
Google Project Zero team disclosed a new unpatched flaw affecting Windows 8.1 systems, the cyber security community is divided between those for and against. The Google Project Zero team has disclosed the details of two more unpatched Windows vulnerabilities due to its disclosure policy. Google has released the details of another Windows vulnerability that Microsoft failed to fix […]
Experts at Sucury firm have analyzed a malvertising scheme that has hijacked at least two distinct Google AdWords advertising campaigns. Malvertising campaigns are one of privileged attack vector exploited by criminal crews, their efficiency depends on the ability of attackers to compromise large audience channels. In September 2014 Malwarebytes firm discovered a large scale malvertising campaign exploiting Google’s […]
Google is not able to direct control the distribution of bug patches for its devices, and 60 percent of Android phones is exposed to security risks. The security expert Todd Bearsley published an interesting blog post on Rapid7 Security Street blog explaining that the Metasploit framework currently includes 11 different exploits for WebView. “WebView is the core component […]
Google Project Zero team disclosed a new unpatched vulnerability affecting Windows 8.1 systems unleashing the wrath of Microsoft for its disclosure policy. Google’s Project Zero hacking team has disclosed the details of a new unpatched Windows 8.1 Privilege Escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 8.1 OS. It is the second flaw in Windows 8.1 OS publicly disclosed by […]
Google Project Zero team has disclosed the details of an unpatched flaw affecting Windows 8.1 systems and reported to Microsoft in September. The experts at the Google Project Zero team have ethically disclosed the details of an unpatched Windows 8.1 vulnerability reported to Microsoft in September. The team has waited for 90 days before publicly disclose the […]
Gmail has been blocked in China, experts speculated that the Chinese Government used the China’s Great Firewall to interfere with the email service. Bad news for Chinese Gmail users, the popular email service offered by Google was blocked in China. Anti-censorship and privacy advocates speculated on filtering activity operated by the national Great Firewall system. According to the freedom […]
Security researchers at Google have discovered several serious flaws affecting the NTP protocol, which are remotely exploitable by the attackers. Security experts at Google have uncovered several serious flaws in the Network Time Protocol (NTP), including several buffer overflows that are remotely exploitable. The Network Time Protocol is a networking protocol for clock synchronization between […]
A security expert discovered a critical CSRF vulnerability in Blogger.com that allows an attacker to write posts in any blog hosted on the popular platform. The Egyptian security expert Mazen Gamal Mesbah (@MazenGamal) has discovered a critical CSRF (Cross-site request forgery) vulnerability in the free weblog publishing tool Blogger.com. The vulnerability could be exploited by an attacker to write posts […]