The security experts Florian Bogner devised a method dubbed AVGater to escalate privileges by abusing the quarantine feature of some antiviruses. Several popular antivirus solutions are affected by flaws that could beRead More →
AS DANGEROUS AS they may be, the Kremlin-linked hacking group known as APT28, or Fancy Bear, gets points for topicality. Last year, the group hacked the Democratic National Committee and theRead More →
Intel’s management engine – in most Positive Technologies plans to demonstrate at the next Black Hat conference how to hack over USB into Intel Management Engine of most CPUs sinceRead More →
In Part 1 of this series, we’ll be exploiting a stack buffer overflow using a Saved Return Pointer Overwrite attack. Hopefully, you’re all caught up on the necessary prerequisite knowledge afterRead More →
A Google-developed kernel fuzzer has helped locate dozens of Linux security flaws. Google researcher Andrey Konovalov has revealed 14 flaws in Linux kernel USB drivers that he found using aRead More →
Networked consumer and business printers manufactured and sold by Brother contain an unpatched vulnerability that can be abused by a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition on the device.Read More →
Experts discovered flaws in IEEE P1735 electronics standard, which describes methods for encrypting electronic-design intellectual property (IP). Crypto flaws in the IEEE P1735 electronics standard expose highly-valuable intellectual property in plaintext. The IEEE P1735 electronics standard providesRead More →
Cisco said that changes to its implementation of the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) over an Ethernet VPN has created a vulnerability in its IOE XE software. The networking giant hasRead More →
TorMoil threatens Mac and Linux versions of Tor browser; Windows and Tails not affected. Mac and Linux versions of the Tor anonymity browser just received a temporary fix for aRead More →
The annual mobile Pwn2Own zero-day competition has been renewed for the sixth time. So, we get to see new hacks for devices from leading brands like Apple, Samsung, etc. Earlier thisRead More →
