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A bug-hunter who previously disclosed Windows security flaws has publicly revealed another zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft’s latest operating systems.

The discovered hole can be exploited by malware and rogue logged-in users to gain system-level privileges on Windows 10 and recent […]

Institute For Ethical Hacking Course and Ethical Hacking Training in Pune – India

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Brit security software slinger Sophos has advised its customers to uninstall Microsoft’s most recent Patch Tuesday run – the same patches that protect PCs and servers against the latest Intel cockups.

In an advisory note published over the weekend, Sophos admitted the latest […]

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Boeing has admitted that pilot training simulators for the controversial 737 Max did not accurately reproduce what happened if the infamous MCAS system went gaga.

In a statement, the American aircraft manufacturer said it had “made corrections to the 737 […]

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Terrorists have been caught strapping Wi-Fi-activated backup triggers to bombs in Indonesia, police claimed this week.

The explosives were discovered in a raid earlier this month, and included a switching mechanism that enabled them to be detonated using a signal […]

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The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has become the latest government body to plead with admins to implement security best practices on Microsoft’s Office 365 platform.

The UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) made a similar appeal in December 2018. The […]

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Oguserscom — a forum popular among people involved in hijacking online accounts and conducting SIM swapping attacks to seize control over victims’ phone numbers — has itself been hacked, exposing the email addresses, hashed passwords, IP addresses and private messages for nearly 113,000 […]

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Security weaknesses at the heart of some of Cisco’s network routers, switches, and firewalls can be exploited by hackers to hide spyware deep inside compromised equipment.

In order to exploit these flaws, dubbed 😾😾😾 or Thrangrycat by their discoverers, a miscreant or […]

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A security flaw in WhatsApp can be, and has been, exploited to inject spyware into victims’ smartphones: all a snoop needs to do is make a booby-trapped voice call to a target’s number, and they’re in. The victim doesn’t […]

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Cisco Talos researchers have uncovered an SQLite use-after-free() vulnerability that could allow an attacker to, in theory, remotely execute code on an affected device.

“An exploitable use after free vulnerability exists in the window function functionality of Sqlite3 3.26.0,” said Talos […]

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Systemd, Linux, AMD and shoddy randomness
File this one under bad situations that probably don’t affect anyone.

It reemerged that some older generation AMD processors fail to generate random numbers after waking up from suspend, which has knock on effects into […]