Uber suffered a large-scale cyberattack in October of 2016 that exposed the confidential data of 57 million customers and drivers, the company disclosed today in a statement following a damning Bloomberg report. Read more
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Thanks to an investigation by third-party researchers into Intel’s hidden firmware in certain chips, Intel decided to audit its firmware and on Monday confirmed it had found 11 severe bugs that affect millions of computers and servers. Read more
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Sysadmins have been advised to watch for a coming HP printer firmware update that will plug a remote code execution vulnerability (among others) in its MFP-586 and the M553 printers. Read more
Google made many efforts to make the Play Store away from malicious apps, but some apps were able to fool the anti-malware protections and infect users with malware. Read more
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Researchers have devised numerous ways to extract data from computer systems by developing covert channels. These channels fall into four general groups: Read more
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The Open Web Application Security Project will on Monday, US time, reveal its annual analysis of web application risks, but The Register has sniffed out the final draft of the report and can report that it has found familiar attacks top its charts, but exotic exploits are on the rise. Read more
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Security researchers have warned that it might be possible to destabilise a container ship by manipulating the vessel stowage plan or “Bay Plan”. Read more
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Linus Torvalds has offered his thoughts on Linux security approaches, branding some security professionals as “f*cking morons” for focusing on process-killing rather than debugging. Read more
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The Information Security Analyst is a member of the Security Testing Team. The role’s overall responsibility is to coordinate and enhance the discovery of host vulnerabilities and issues, the distribution of those findings to the appropriate teams, and provide consultation services to facilitate remediation. Read more
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The IT security researchers at Bitdefender have discovered a banking malware that apparently has been developed after keeping the dangerous Zeus trojan in mind. Read more
Trojan that steals Gmail Password Read More »