Daily Archives: August 21, 2019

Stuff like sophisticated government spyware is scary and all – but don’t forget, a single .wmv file can pwn you via VLC

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VideoLAN has issued an update to address a baker’s dozen of CVE-listed security vulnerabilities in its widely used VLC player software.

The VLC update includes patches to clear up flaws that range in impact from denial of service (read: application crashes) to […]

By |August 21st, 2019|Cyber News|

30+ countries, 160,000 emails, $4.2m in cyber-heists… maybe it’s time for the Silence hacker crew to change its name

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Credits: The Register

The rapidly growing hacking crew dubbed Silence, has – in less than three years – gone from ransacking small regional banks in Eastern Europe to stealing millions from some of the largest international banks.

A report issued this morning by […]

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No REST for the wicked: Ruby gem hacked to siphon passwords, secrets from web devs

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Credits: The Register

An old version of a Ruby software package called rest-client that was modified and released about a week ago has been removed from the Ruby Gems repository – because it was found to be deliberately leaking victims’ credentials to a remote […]

By |August 21st, 2019|Cyber News|

Huawei goes all Art of War on us: Switches on ‘battle mode’ and vows to ‘dominate the world’

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Credits: The Register

An internal memo to Huawei staff sent by boss Ren Zhengfei is long on military metaphors and warns that the company needs to go into “battle mode” to counter trade barriers put up by the United States.

Ren said that […]

By |August 21st, 2019|Cyber News|