RAMpage Attack Explained—Exploiting RowHammer On Android Again!

A team of security researchers has discovered a new set of techniques that could allow hackers to bypass all kind of present mitigations put in place to prevent DMA-based Rowhammer attacks against Android devices.

Dubbed RAMpage, the new technique (CV… Continue reading RAMpage Attack Explained—Exploiting RowHammer On Android Again!

Unpatched WordPress Flaw Gives Attackers Full Control Over Your Site

UPDATE—WordPress has released version 4.9.7 to finally patch this vulnerability that could allow remote attackers to gain full control over affected websites. You are recommended to install the latest available version of WordPress as soon as possible…. Continue reading Unpatched WordPress Flaw Gives Attackers Full Control Over Your Site

Android Gets New Anti-Spoofing Feature to Make Biometric Authentication Secure

Google just announced its plan to introduce a new anti-spoofing feature for its Android operating system that makes its biometric authentication mechanisms more secure than ever.

Biometric authentications, like the fingerprint, IRIS, or face recogniti… Continue reading Android Gets New Anti-Spoofing Feature to Make Biometric Authentication Secure

Thousands of Mobile Apps Expose Their Unprotected Firebase Hosted Databases

Mobile security researchers have discovered unprotected Firebase databases of thousands of iOS and Android mobile applications that are exposing over 100 million data records, including plain text passwords, user IDs, location, and in some cases, finan… Continue reading Thousands of Mobile Apps Expose Their Unprotected Firebase Hosted Databases

Google Developer Discovers a Critical Bug in Modern Web Browsers

Google researcher has discovered a severe vulnerability in modern web browsers that could have allowed websites you visit to steal the sensitive content of your online accounts from other websites that you have logged-in the same browser.

Discovered b… Continue reading Google Developer Discovers a Critical Bug in Modern Web Browsers

Popular Flight Tracker Flightradar24 Suffers Data Breach

One of the world’s most popular flight tracking services Flightradar24, which shows real-time aircraft flight information on a map, has suffered a massive data breach that may have compromised email addresses and hashed passwords for more than 230,000 … Continue reading Popular Flight Tracker Flightradar24 Suffers Data Breach

TRON Cryptocurrency Founder Buys BitTorrent, µTorrent for $140 Million

BitTorrent, the company which owns the popular file-sharing client uTorrent, has quietly been sold for $140 million in cash to Justin Sun, the founder of blockchain-focused startup TRON.

TRON is a decentralized entertainment and content-sharing platfo… Continue reading TRON Cryptocurrency Founder Buys BitTorrent, µTorrent for $140 Million

Ex-CIA employee charged with leaking ‘Vault 7’ hacking tools to Wikileaks

A 29-year-old former CIA computer programmer who was charged with possession of child pornography last year has now been charged with masterminding the largest leak of classified information in the agency’s history.

Joshua Adam Schulte, who once creat… Continue reading Ex-CIA employee charged with leaking ‘Vault 7’ hacking tools to Wikileaks

New ‘Lazy FP State Restore’ Vulnerability Found in All Modern Intel CPUs

Hell Yeah! Another security vulnerability has been discovered in Intel chips that affects the processor’s speculative execution technology—like Specter and Meltdown—and could potentially be exploited to access sensitive information, including encryptio… Continue reading New ‘Lazy FP State Restore’ Vulnerability Found in All Modern Intel CPUs

Microsoft June 2018 Patch Tuesday Pushes 11 Critical Security Updates

It’s time to gear up for the latest June 2018 Microsoft security patch updates.

Microsoft today released security patch updates for more than 50 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet Explorer, Edge, MS Office, MS Office Exchange Server, ChakraC… Continue reading Microsoft June 2018 Patch Tuesday Pushes 11 Critical Security Updates