Kaspersky Has Detected Malware Deployed Inside Windows Event Logs
Add this to the list of things you wish you didn't know about; multistage malware which hides in the Windows Event Viewer and from there is able to do a wide variety…
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Automated Apoplexy, A Serious Problem With Aethon Robots In Hospitals Averted
Today's terrifying news about lousy security comes from a hospital near you, who you can only hope paid attention to the notice from Aethon that a security update needs to be applied…
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Confidential GPU Computing, NVIDIA’s Cloud Gets An Azure Lining
If you have been wondering how secure data being processed by GPUs on cloud solutions like Azure, or just how hard it will be to crack Skynet when it comes about this…
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A Single Legacy IPv6 Address On Your Network Can Spoil Your Security
There is a new research paper out from a collaboration of academics with good taste in titles explains how a single device on your network using a legacy EUI-64 IPv6 address can…
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Microsoft Outsmarts Trickbot With RouterOS Scanner
Trickbot has been causing headaches for IT security professionals for quite some time now, as it is a well designed and highly obfuscated suite of tools to infect machines with malware and…
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Ghosts Of Spectres Past Return To Haunt AMD And Intel
If you had hoped that the Spectre flaw had finally been exorcised and sent back to the grave then we have some bad news for you. Recently Intel's security team, which goes…
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C’mon Man, Now My APC UPS Is A Security Risk?
Congratulations on making it to Thursday, your reward is apparently three critical vulnerabilities which make 10 Smart-UPS models a possible infiltration point into your network. Two of the three vulnerabilities...
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Linux Has Been Smoked By A Dirty Pipe
Several pipelines have been in the news lately, but this one is a wee bit different as it refers to the pipelines in Linux used to pass data from one process to…
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NVIDIA Had Best Beware The Ides Of March
The fallout from the breach at NVIDIA continues to grow, with some serious repercussions for users spotted by The Register. The data stolen from NVIDIA seems to have included two...
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Panic At The Cisco! Five New Bugs, Three Of Which Are Perfect 10’s
Cisco decided to give us a great start to the week by providing details on five critical bugs affecting four models of routers, of which three bugs are of the highest severity. …
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Sniffing Out Malware’s EM Emissions With A Raspberry Pi?
The idea of sniffing out infected kit by monitoring their EM emissions seems to be a bit beyond what we can achieve at this point, however it seems that this ability is…
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The Good News Is SysJoker Runs On Anything, The Bad News Is It Is A Trojan
In general it is nice to see software which supports all major operating systems and which was written from scratch; except when it is a virus. SysJoker was just discovered thanks to…
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Add Spectra To Your List Of Worries, Using Bluetooth To Manipulate WiFi Traffic
If you were wondering what was going to hit the fan next, it is actually a vulnerability combined communications chips which was first reported to vendors in August 2019, yet remain unpatched…
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Hear Ye! Hear Ye! Patch Ye Thine Apache; For Log4j Safety
Rejoice for there is now a way to make your systems somewhat less vulnerable to the Log4Shell vulnerability in the form of a new patch from Apache. The previous 2.15...
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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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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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