A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. AVG will sell user’s personal data to third-parties A string could be used to crash Google Chrome Pentagon on manual mission to build nation-wide security database Tech finds 1.5M […]
Hilton Worldwide has issued an official statement informing its customers that the alleged data breach is currently under investigation. As reported by Brian Krebs of Krebs on Security, several sources are claiming that Point-of-Sale (PoS) registers utilized by several businesses operating within a large quantity of Hilton Hotel and franchise properties across the United States. These claims result from the […]
Adobe has released a new Flash Player update that patches 23 critical vulnerabilities in the popular software. Update your version asap. Adobe has released a new Flash Player update that fixes 23 critical vulnerabilities in the popular software. According to the security bulletin issued by Adobe, Version 18.0.0.231 and earlier of the Flash Player for Windows and […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Lockerpin, the first known Android lock-screen ransomware How did jihadists hack into top UK ministerial emails if no security breach took place? Vodafone Australia has hacked a Fairfax journalist’s […]
It seems incredible, but as already happened for Skype it is possible to crash the latest version of Google Chrome with a simple tiny URL. The flaw was discovered last week by the expert Andris Atteka who filed also a bug report. “Recently I reported a crash bug in Google Chrome (issue #533361). This issue reminded […]
DARPA is sustaining researchers to seek innovations in software obfuscation solutions to contrast criminals that try to reverse engineer software. DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Project Agency) and a team of researchers are turning towards new methods to overcome reverse engineering by using obfuscation to secure government and business security. The Research Team, remodeling a safe-ware program is […]
A security expert discovered a critical flaw in the VxWorks, one of the most reliable real-time operating systems for the IoT also used by the Curiosity Rover. The Canadian security researcher Yannick Formaggio has discovered an important flaw in VxWorks which is the real-time operating system (RTOS) developed by the Wind River, an Intel’s subsidiary. VxWorks is one […]
A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Every week the best security articles from the best sources free for you in your email box. Carbanak trojan reloaded! A new variant spotted in the wild Fiat Chrysler distributes the fix for flawed Jeep via mailed USB DoJ defines new rules for spying with the […]
Another cyber attack hit computer systems at the Pentagon, this time the food court computers have been hacked exposing employees’ bank information. In August, alleged Russian hackers have hacked an unclassified emailing server of the Pentagon, it was just one of the numerous attacks against the US Government systems. According to the NBC news, US […]
Security experts at Check Point security discovered a flaw in WhatsApp Web that could be exploited by attackers to compromise hundreds of millions users, According to the security firm Check Point a vulnerability in the popular messaging service WhatsApp Web exposes up to 200 million of its users at risk of cyber attack. WhatsApp Web allows […]