Chrome 90 Will Utilize AMD and Intel Hardware Security Features
If you are running a Tiger Lake or Zen 3 processor on a recent version of Windows 10 you now have the option to enable chip level security on...
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A Newly Detected Qualcomm Vulnerability Affects Almost One In Three Phones
There is a flaw in Qualcomm’s Mobile Station Modem, a component in a vast number of Android phones from Google, Samsung, LG, Xiaomi, and OnePlus. The vulnerability is not in...
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QNAP Owners; Get Busy Patching Or Get Busy Crying
QNAP owners have had a busy year, with a large number of patches being pushed out to protect against a variety of threats. Their work is not yet done as another wave…
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Valve Finally Fixes The Steam Remote Code Execution Flaw
When you are logged into Steam, generally your only concern was protecting your wallet and avoiding bad trades with strangers. However there was a much more sinister issue which Valve knew about…
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QNAP Caught Sleeping On Vulnerabilities For Four Months
Two separate security firms discovered security flaws in QNAP's firmware, version 4.3.6.1446, back in October and November of 2020. As is common, they gave four months grace to allow QNAP to develop…
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Want To Play With A Spectre Exploit For Yourself?
The Spectre exploit certainly lives up to it's name, living on to haunt older hardware like Intel's Skylake family of CPUs but the news is not all horrible. Google have released proof-of-concept…
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We Can See You Haven’t Changed Your Webcam Password
You would think with sites like Insecam.org being relatively well known that the lesson to change your webcam's default password is at least as important as changing your default router password. …
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The SolarWinds Hack Gets Worse, But Offers A Tiny Bit Of Amusement
In August 2020 an unidentified company uploaded a piece of malware to a public malware repository in the hopes of getting advice on how to deal with it. It is unknown at…
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Red Canary Blows The Whistle On Silver Sparrow
A new mysterious piece of malware has been found sitting on tens of thousands of Macs, which for the moment seems happy just to exist as it is not doing anything at…
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Those Cute Little Favicons Always Did Seem Pretty Sus
Move over LSOs and get out of the way super cookies, there's a new way to track people's movement on the internet that works on just about every browser. It's those cute…
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Announcing The Supermicro Spy Chip Sequel
If you had thought that the story about the mysterious and possibly invisible spy chip Bloomberg reported on a couple of years back would peter out after they failed to present much…
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Apple’s Silent Blastdoor
Apple has been very successful convincing people about the security of iOS by not saying a thing about it. Those of us who follow tech media are usually quite aware of the…
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Corrupting NTFS With A Single Shortcut
Starting with Windows 10 1803 and continuing to this day is a simple and rather uncouth trick to corrupt a NTFS disk and prompt a reboot, which may not successfully launch. It…
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Update Your GeForce Drivers Now … Not For The FPS But For The Security
These new WHQL drivers don't have much in the way of performance updates but do not let that convince you to skip this one and wait for the next one. Instead, you…
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SolarWinds Is Sorry To Sunburst Your Bubble
There is a lot of news about SUNBURST, the Solarwinds hack which has ruined the holiday season of many a system administrator, and it seems there several other interesting things about this…
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Qualcomm and Google’s Three Years Of Android Updates
Qualcomm and Google hit the headlines with an announcement that they will now "support 4 Android OS versions and 4 years of security updates." This is certainly not a bad...
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You And I And UEFI Vulnerabilities
Recent security research has revealed that someone is teaching Trickbot new tricks, and this one is right nasty. Trickbot started out as a minor villain, a trojan that enabled nefarious...
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It’s Brave To Take On CNAME
There is an eternal war on the internet (no, not that one) between users who value the privacy of their metadata and browsing habits and advertisers that want to collect as much…
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