Secret Charges Against Julian Assange Revealed Due to “Cut-Paste” Error
Has Wikileaks founder Julian Assange officially been charged with any unspecified criminal offense in the United States? — YES
United States prosecutors have accidentally revealed the existence of criminal charges against Wikileaks founder Julian Assange in a recently unsealed court...
Why you need to know about Penetration Testing and Compliance Audits?
We live in an age where data flows like water, becoming the new life source of our everyday ventures.
As such, you can just imagine what all of that entails and the weight that data receive, especially when it...
Popular AMP Plugin for WordPress Patches Critical Flaw – Update Now
A security researcher has discovered a critical vulnerability in one of the popular and widely active plugins for WordPress that could allow a low-privileged attacker to inject malicious code on AMP pages of the targeted website.
The vulnerable WordPress plugin...
0-Days Found in iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9, Xiaomi Mi6 Phones
At Pwn2Own 2018 mobile hacking competition held in Tokyo on November 13-14, white hat hackers once again demonstrated that even the fully patched smartphones running the latest version of software from popular smartphone manufacturers can be hacked.
Three major flagship...
7 New Meltdown and Spectre-type CPU Flaws Affect Intel, AMD, ARM CPUs
Disclosed earlier this year, potentially dangerous Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities that affected a large family of modern processors proven that speculative execution attacks can be exploited in a trivial way to access highly sensitive information.
Since then, several more variants...
63 New Flaws (Including 0-Days) Windows Users Need to Patch Now
It's Patch Tuesday once again…time for another round of security updates for the Windows operating system and other Microsoft products.
This month Windows users and system administrators need to immediately take care of a total of 63 security vulnerabilities, of...
Another Facebook Bug Could Have Exposed Your Private Information
Another security vulnerability has been reported in Facebook that could have allowed attackers to obtain certain personal information about users and their friends, potentially putting the privacy of users of the world's most popular social network at risk.
Discovered by...
Cynet Review: Simplify Security with a True Security Platform
In 1999, Bruce Schneier wrote, "Complexity is the worst enemy of security." That was 19 years ago (!) and since then, cyber security has only become more complex.
Today, controls dramatically outnumber staff available to support them. The...
Top 5 Factors That Increase Cyber Security Salary The Most
Our partner Springboard, which provides online courses to help you advance your cybersecurity career with personalized mentorship from industry experts, recently researched current cybersecurity salaries and future earning potential in order to trace a path to how much money...
New APIs Suggest WPA3 Wi-Fi Security Support Coming Soon to Windows 10
Windows 10 users don't have to wait much longer for the support of latest WPA3 Wi-Fi security standard, a new blog post from Microsoft apparently revealed.
The third version of Wi-Fi Protected Access, in-short WPA3, is the next generation of...
Hacker Who DDoSed Sony, EA and Steam Gaming Servers Pleads Guilty
A 23-year-old hacker from Utah pleaded guilty this week to launching a series of denial-of-service (DoS) attacks against multiple online services, websites, and online gaming companies between 2013 and 2014.
According to a Justice Department (DoJ) press release, Austin Thompson,...
Here’s How Hackers Could Have Spied On Your DJI Drone Account
Cybersecurity researchers at Check Point today revealed details of a potential dangerous vulnerability in DJI Drone web app that could have allowed attackers access user accounts and synced sensitive information within it, including flight records, location, live video camera...
New Android API Lets Developers Push Updates Within their Apps
You might have read somewhere online today that Google is granting Android app developers powers to forcefully install app updates…but it is not true.
Instead, the tech giant is providing a new feature that will help users to have up-to-date...
StatCounter Analytics Code Hijacked to Steal Bitcoins from Cryptocurrency Users
Late last week an unknown hacker or a group of hackers successfully targeted a cryptocurrency exchange with an aim to steal Bitcoins by compromising the web analytics service it was using.
ESET malware researcher Matthieu Faou this weekend spotted malicious...
Unpatched VirtualBox Zero-Day Vulnerability and Exploit Released Online
An independent exploit developer and vulnerability researcher has publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability in VirtualBox—a popular open source virtualization software developed by Oracle—that could allow a malicious program to escape virtual machine (guest OS) and execute code on the...
Popular WooCommerce WordPress Plugin Patches Critical Vulnerability
If you own an eCommerce website built on WordPress and powered by WooCommerce plugin, then beware of a new vulnerability that could compromise your online store.
Simon Scannell, a researcher at RIPS Technologies GmbH, discovered an arbitrary file deletion vulnerability...
The Pirate Bay Like 9 Best Torrent Sites (Updated Nov 2018)
The Pirate Bay torrent search engine is one of the world's most famous and best torrent sites. But it has been caught second time mining digital currencies using visitors' computers.
Like many popular torrent sites, the pirate bay also uses...
Flaws in Popular Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Decrypt Data
We all have something to hide, something to protect. But if you are also relying on self-encrypting drives for that, then you should read this news carefully.
Security researchers have discovered multiple critical vulnerabilities in some of the popular self-encrypting...
Apple’s New MacBook Disconnects Microphone “Physically” When Lid is Closed
Apple introduces a new privacy feature for all new MacBooks that "at some extent" will prevent hackers and malicious applications from eavesdropping on your conversations.
Apple's custom T2 security chip in the latest MacBooks includes a new hardware feature that...
New Intel CPU Flaw Exploits Hyper-Threading to Steal Encrypted Data
A team of security researchers has discovered another serious side-channel vulnerability in Intel CPUs that could allow an attacker to sniff out sensitive protected data, like passwords and cryptographic keys, from other processes running in the same CPU core...
Instagram flaw exposes user passwords
A security flaw in Instagram’s recently released “Download Your Data” tool could have exposed some user passwords, the company reportedly told users.
The tool, revealed by Instagram right before the GDPR regulation went into effect, is designed to let users...
Julian Assange Charges, Japan’s Top Cybersecurity Official, and More Security News This Week
Safer browsing, more bitcoin scams, and the rest of the week's top security news.
SMS 2FA database leak drama, MageCart mishaps, Black Friday badware, and more
Plus, why is Kaspersky Lab getting into chess? Roundup What a week it has been: we had the creation of a new government agency, a meltdown flashback, and of course, Patch Tuesday.…
Is retaining a cybersecurity attorney a good idea for your business?
Cybersecurity is so complicated that businesses, large and small, are retaining legal counsel specializing in security. Learn two more steps businesses should take before a cyberattack hits.
Machine Learning Can Create Fake ‘Master Key’ Fingerprints
Researchers have refined a technique to create so-called DeepMasterPrints, fake fingerprints designed to get past security.
