Pirates Secure Plundervolt On The Waters Of Skylake
If you've never heard of Intel Software Guard Extensions then there is good chance you can happily ignore Pludervolt, but for those with servers that make use of it you will want…
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It’s Not A VPN-busting Bug, It’s A Social Media Enhancer For UNIX Users
Kidding aside, this vulnerability applies to most UNIX based OSes, with most Linux distros, Android, iOS, macOS, FreeBSD, and OpenBSD all affected. The attacker needs to be able to intercept your data,…
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Qualcomm’s Insecure TrustZone
There is a bug in Qualcomm's Secure Execution Environment, found on LG, Pixel, Samsung, Xiaomi, HTC, Sony, OnePlus, and many other phones, which breaks their Qualcomm's Secure Execution Environment. Thankfully it was…
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Here’s An Actual Concern About 5G
The ubiquitous coverage that 5G will offer, except when anything thicker than a piece of cardboard interrupts the signal, means that any vulnerabilities could be quite worrying. In fact it seems that…
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Not The Best Day To Have Intel Inside
If you use Intel PMxDrv drivers, for integration with software such as LabVIEWTM, DIAdem, MLab your own inhouse .NET API you had better patch as soon as you can! Three...
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Trend Micro Employee Took The Fable Of The Pyromaniac Firefighter A Little Too Seriously
The headline pretty much says it all, 68,000 customers of Trend Micro are now receiving phishing and spam calls thanks to the nefarious deeds of a single employee, now an ex-employee. The…
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Is It Paranoia If Everything Really Is Listening To You?
If you have always had a sneaking suspicion that Amazon's and Google's voice assistants are spying on you, you may well be right. Apart from the previous worries about practices the actual…
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This Andriod Vulnerability Demonstrates The Importance Of a Good CV(E)
There is a security vulnerability affecting Pixel 1 and 2 devices, Galaxy S7 through S9, the Huawei P20 and various models of Xiaomi, Oppo and Motorola devices as well ... which has…
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Interesting, An Inoculation Against WannaCry
WannaCry/WannaCrypt has been roaming around the internet for a few years now, long enough that the Bitcoin wallet you are instructed to pay to get your files back is only monitored by…
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Not The NetCAT You Think It Is
When naming new vulnerabilities, you should probably check to see if the fancy moniker you planning to use might already be in use by a well known utility. Network techs are already…
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Double Check That iOS Version
If you don't keep your Apple devices up to date someone might be spying on you, and this time it isn't Apple. Older versions of the OS suffer from a...
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Lenovo Is In A Bundle Of Trouble … Again
You might recall SuperFish from years back, or perhaps it was when Lenovo chose to hard code 12345678, the third most popular password of 2015, to protect their ShareIT...
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A Friendly Reminder About Password Reuse And Just How Pwned You Are
Password reuse is common, according to this Google study it is a significant problem which affects hundreds of thousands of people and their many different accounts. There are tools such...
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Lightning Strikes Over The Air With This Hacked Cable
At Def Con in Los Vegas this year a security enthusiast that goes by the handle _Mg_ was selling O.MG cables, which are fully functional Lightning cables with an wee extra embedded…
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You Can’t Always Hear What Hertz You
Infrasound and ultrasound have been in the news, most recently posited as the cause of strange symptoms at the Cuban embassy. The next time you hear about this, it could be much…
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That New SWAPGS Spectre Flaw Was Already Patched
We only found out about the SWAPGS variant of Spectre V1 which affects Intel processors yesterday, but apparently Microsoft quietly pushed a Windows 10 patch for it last month. The...
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Time To Update Those NVIDIA Drivers And Secure Your System
If you are running NVIDIA drivers older than version 431.60, released July 23rd you should update as soon as possible as the previous drivers are currently Exploit Ready. NVIDIA released...
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Patch Up That iThang; A Half Dozen Interactionless Vulnerabilities Are Looking For You
The good news is that upgrading to iOS 12.4 will protect you from five recently discovered security issues with iMessage; the bad news is that there were six revealed. Researchers from Google's…
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