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Chinese authorities are secretly installing surveillance apps on smartphones of foreigners at border crossings in the Xinjiang region who are entering from neighboring Kyrgyzstan, an international investigation revealed.
Xinjiang (XUAR) is an autonomo… Continue reading China’s Border Guards Secretly Installing Spyware App on Tourists’ Phones
Google has started rolling out this month’s security updates for its mobile operating system platform to address a total of 33 new security vulnerabilities affecting Android devices, 9 of which have been rated critical in severity.
The vulnerabilities… Continue reading Android July 2019 Security Update Patches 33 New Vulnerabilities
Microsoft has introduced a new password-protected folder within its OneDrive online file storage service that will allow you to keep your sensitive and important files protected and secured with an extra layer of authentication.
Dubbed Personal Vault,… Continue reading Microsoft Adds 2FA-Protected “Personal Vault” Within OneDrive Cloud Storage
As we reported two days ago, Microsoft this week released an updated version of its Outlook app for Android that patches a severe remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-1105) that impacted over 100 million users.
However, at that time, very few… Continue reading PoC Released for Outlook Flaw that Microsoft Patched 6 Month After Discovery
If you use VLC media player on your computer and haven’t updated it recently, don’t you even dare to play any untrusted, randomly downloaded video file on it.
Doing so could allow hackers to remotely take full control over your computer system.
That’… Continue reading Beware! Playing Untrusted Videos On VLC Player Could Hack Your Computer
Dell’s SupportAssist utility that comes pre-installed on millions of Dell laptops and PCs contains a security vulnerability that could allow malicious software or rogue logged-in users to escalate their privileges to administrator-level and access sens… Continue reading Security Flaw in Pre-Installed Dell Support Software Affects Million of Computers
Update (22 June 2019) — More technical details and proof-of-concept for the OutLook for Android vulnerability has been released that we have covered in a separate article here.
Microsoft today released an updated version of its “Outlook for Android” t… Continue reading Important Flaw in Outlook App for Android Affects Over 100 Millions Users
At its developer conference held earlier this week in New York, the MongoDB team announced the latest version of its database management software that includes a variety of advanced features, including Field Level Encryption, Distributed Transactions, … Continue reading MongoDB 4.2 Introduces End-to-End Field Level Encryption for Databases
Cybersecurity researchers discover a critical flaw in the popular Evernote Chrome extension that could have allowed hackers to hijack your browser and steal sensitive information from any website you accessed.
Evernote is a popular service that helps … Continue reading Critical Flaw Reported in Popular Evernote Extension for Chrome Users
A team of cybersecurity researchers yesterday revealed details of a new side-channel attack on dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) that could allow malicious programs installed on a modern system to read sensitive memory data from other processes runni… Continue reading RAMBleed Attack – Flip Bits to Steal Sensitive Data from Computer Memory