Samsung TVs Can Be Bricked Remotely
Samsung's solution to a large theft of their TVs has revealed a hitherto unknown feature on their products called TV Block, an ability for them to remotely brick their products. When a…
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Tag: Security
IT Won’t Give You Admin? This Windows Installer Bug Can Fix That
There once was a zero day exploit called CVE-2021-41379, which let a user gain elevated access to a system with a malformed MSI-type installer. The exploit allowed them to delete files they…
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The Security On Older Intel BIOS Firmware Is A Bit Floppy; Get Patching!
The good news is that there are patches being provided for most of the affected processors, but unfortunately some older processor families such as Kaby Lake are likely to remain vulnerable as…
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Cisco Is 10 Out Of 10 This Week For The Impact of Two Vulnerabilities That Is
The Register has a sneaking suspicion that is code for a set of credentials used for debugging during manufacturing which was not removed before the switches sent, regardless the effect is that…
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LANtenna, Sniffing Packets Out Of Your LAN Cables On The Cheap
A researcher at the Ben Gurion University of the Negev has successfully sniffed UDP packets out of CAT6 cabling and decoded them into human readable text, without spending more than $30. The…
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ASUS ROG Armoury Crate, Breach Status Full RGB Alert
RGB lovers beware, for the ASUS ROG Armoury Crate app will happily load a DLL from a folder inside C:\ProgramData\, which anyone and their dog can write to. That means that the…
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Daemon Day At Apple, Three iOS Zero Day Vulnerabilities Published
A security researcher, currently known only as Illusion of Chaos has published three iOS vulnerabilities which have apparently been exploited in the wild, possibly for over a year, and which...
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BrakTooth! You Know That BrakTooth
Researchers from the Singapore University of Technology and Design have some bad news for Bluetooth fans, as they found a serious vulnerability in a large number of Bluetooth components which they have…
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The Other Apple Announcement, A Fix For A Zero-Click iMessage Bug
Amongst the hype of new iWatches, iPads and other shiny new iThangs it is possible you missed hearing about two bugs which Apple has just released patches for. If you did miss…
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Shine Little Glowworm, Glimmer, Glimmer; Light Our Audio Secrets, Below, Above
There is a newly detected vulnerability called Glowworm, which describes the ability for sneaky types to listen to your computer audio via the power LED on your speakers. It turns out that…
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LemonDuck Still Sucks, It’s A Linux And Windows Miner That Isn’t Afraid To Learn New Skills
Lemonduck is not new malware, it has been driving sysadmins nuts since 2019 but some of what it does is rather unique. It started as a cryptocurrency miner which spread...
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The Terrible Tuesday For Both Linux And Windows Sysadmins
There are a pair of newly discovered vulnerabilities to add to the nightmares of sysadmins everywhere, both those running Windows and Linux infrastructures. In one case it is an issue...
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Slay Spectre and Meltdown With No Penalty?
Researchers at the Columbia University School of Engineering and Applied Science have some great news ... theoretically anyways. ZeRØ adds a new set of memory instructions as well as and a new…
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Your WiFi Just Became More Secure Thanks To The FragAttacks Project
It was just revealed by the FragAttacks project that there were a dozen vulnerabilities affecting all Wi-Fi security protocols since the first one was released in 1997; from WEP through WPA3 all…
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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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