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BRIGHTNESS Attack Can Takeover Air-Gapped Systems To Steal Data

Researchers have devised a new strategy to target air-gapped systems. Dubbed BRIGHTNESS, the attack method exploits the screen brightness settingsBRIGHTNESS At…

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Android Bluetooth Vulnerability Allowed Exploit Without User Interaction

Google has revealed a serious security flaw affecting its Android OS. As disclosed, a Bluetooth subsystem vulnerability affected the AndroidAndroid Bluetooth V…

Android

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Open-Source Security in 2020: Myths and Fac

Open-source software isn't a completely chaotic and breached wasteland of vulnerabilities. It's a global effort to make the development lifecycle faster.

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Realtek Patched DLL Hijacking Vulnerability In HD Audio Driver

Realtek has recently confirmed a serious vulnerability in its HD Audio Driver Package for Windows. Upon exploit it could allowRealtek Patched DLL Hijacking Vul…

Windows

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WhatsApp Desktop Platform Security Flaw Allowed Access To Local File System

A researcher found numerous security flaws in the WhatsApp Desktop platform for both Windows and macOS. The vulnerabilities could allowWhatsApp Desktop Platfor…

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Patches to make Sudo utility less open to abu

A flaw that gave out root privileges gets patched. It is a utility that,ÂsaidDan Goodin inÂArs Technica,Âcan be found in "dozens of Unix-like operating systems…

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5 High Impact Flaws Affect Cisco Routers, Switches, IP Phones and Cameras

Several Cisco-manufactured network equipments have been found vulnerable to five new security vulnerabilities that could allow hackers to take complete control…

Cisco

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Flaw in Philips Smart Light Bulbs Exposes Your WiFi Network to Hackers

There are over a hundred potential ways hackers can ruin your life by having access to your WiFi network that's also connected to your computers, smartphones, …

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Linux and macOS PCs hit by serious Sudo vulnerabili

Have you heard that Linux andÂmacOSÂsystems have been hit by a nasty little bug in the Sudo utility? The good news is it has already been patched.

Linux Apple

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Twitter Revealed Exploitation of Android App Flaw That Allowed Matching Phone Numbers With User Accounts

Towards the end of 2019, a researcher found a serious flaw in Twitter for Android app. The bug allowed matchingTwitter Revealed Exploitation of Android App Fla…

Android

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This WhatsApp Bug Could Have Let Attackers Access Files On Your PCs

A cybersecurity researcher today disclosed technical details of multiple high severity vulnerabilities he discovered in WhatsApp, which, if exploited, could ha…

Windows

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WordPress Plugin “Code Snippets” Vulnerability Risked Over 200K Websites

Researchers have found another WordPress plugin to be posing a threat to hundreds of thousands of websites. Specifically, they aWordPress Plugin “Code Snippets…

WordPress

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Hackers Exploited Twitter Bug to Find Linked Phone Numbers of Users

Twitter today issued a warning revealing that attackers abused a legitimate functionality on its platform to unauthorizedly determine phone numbers associated …

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Sudo Bug Lets Non-Privileged Linux and macOS Users Run Commands as Root

Joe Vennix of Apple security has found another significant vulnerability in sudo utility that under a specific configuration could allow low privileged users o…

Linux Apple

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Critical Flaw in Zoom Could Allow Attackers to Mess With Meetings

A serious vulnerability existed in the Zoom video conferencing app that the vendor has recently patched. The flaw in theCritical Flaw in Zoom Could Allow Attac…

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RCE in OpenSMTPD library impacts BSD and Linux distr

Security researchers have discovered a vulnerability inside a core email-related library used by many BSD and Linux distributions.ÂThe vulnerability, tracked a…

Linux

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Ragnarok Ransomware Exploits Citrix Vulnerability To Target Vulnerable Servers

Here is another incident to reemphasize the need for patching the serious Citrix vulnerability (CVE-2019-19781). A new ransomware called RagnarokRagnarok Ranso…

Citrix

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Microsoft Azure Flaws Could Have Let Hackers Take Over Cloud Servers

Cybersecurity researchers at Check Point today disclosed details of two recently patched potentially dangerous vulnerabilities in Microsoft Azure services that…

Azure

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Critical OpenSMTPD Bug Opens Linux and OpenBSD Mail Servers to Hackers

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new critical vulnerability (CVE-2020-7247) in the OpenSMTPD email server that could allow remote attackers to take …

Linux

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New 'CacheOut' Attack Leaks Data from Intel CPUs, VMs and SGX Enclave

Another month, another speculative execution vulnerability found in Intel processors.If your computer is running any modern Intel CPU built before October 2018…

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Zoom Bug Could Have Let Uninvited People Join Private Meetings

If you use Zoom to host your remote online meetings, you need to read this piece carefully.The massively popular video conferencing software has patched a secu…

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RHEL 8 Still Vulnerable to 'Magellan 2' SQLite Bugs, as Patches Dr

Are you a RHEL user? Severe bugs in the ubiquitous SQLite engine ' used in thousands of software applications ' continue to pose a major security threat, secur…

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Hackers Exploited Trend Micro Antivirus Zero-day In Mitsubishi Electric Hack

The Japanese electronics giant Mitsubishi Electric disclosed a hack last week. It now turns out that the attackers exploited aHackers Exploited Trend Micro Ant…

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MDhex Vulnerabilities Discovered In GE Healthcare Medical Devices

Researchers have discovered six different critical MDhex vulnerabilities, in medical devices. These vulnerabilities, upon exploitation, could allow an adversar…