Author Archives: Savia Lobo

Yesterday, the Swedish networking and telecommunications company, Ericsson reported an issue in their core software which caused network disturbances for some of its customers. This issue was responsible for a data outage across 11 countries including … Continue reading Ericsson’s expired software certificate issue causes massive outages in UK’s O2 and Japan’s SoftBank network services→

On Wednesday, Dell announced that it had discovered a security breach on November 9th. This breach tried to extract Dell’s customer information including names, email addresses, and hashed passwords. The company said, “Though it is possible… Continue reading Dell reveals details on its recent security breach→

Early this week, Microsoft posted a report on what caused the multi-factor authentication outage in its Office 365 and Azure last week, which prevented users from signing into their cloud services for 14 hours. Microsoft researchers reported that they … Continue reading How 3 glitches in Azure Active Directory MFA caused a 14-hour long multi-factor authentication outage in Office 365, Azure and Dynamics services→

Early this week, the U.S.Postal Service patched an API exploit that could allow users with an account on USPS.com to view other users’ account details and also modify account details on their behalf. This exploit had an impact on 60 million USPS … Continue reading U.S. Postal Service patches an API exploit that impacted 60 million USPS users’ data→

Yesterday, researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam’s VUSec group announced that the new Rowhammer attack, known as ECCploit, bypasses ECC protections built into several widely used models of DDR3 chips. The… Continue reading Researchers discover a new Rowhammer attack, ‘ECCploit’ that bypasses Error Correcting Code protections→

ZTE Corporation, a Chinese multinational telecommunications company, is assisting Venezuela to create a system that can monitor citizen behavior through a new identification card named ‘Fatherland Card’. A few years ago, in 2008, Venezuelan… Continue reading Chinese company ZTE Corp to assist the Venezuelan government to monitor citizen behavior using ‘Fatherland Card’→

A group of researchers recently disclosed seven additional attacks in the Spectre and Meltdown families. These seven attacks are said to impact the AMD, ARM, and the Intel CPUs to a certain extent. The researchers have presented an execution of these a… Continue reading Seven new Spectre and Meltdown attacks found→