The simple line of code made it possible for attackers to view private Yahoo Mail images. Yahoo has decided to retire the use of the ImageMagick library following a researcher’sRead More →
The Outlaw Dark Web market has shut down this week under mysterious circumstances, and while admins said the site closed down after a hack, many believe this was just anotherRead More →
NAND flash memory chips, the building blocks of solid-state drives (SSDs), include what could be called “programming vulnerabilities” that can be exploited to alter stored data or shorten the SSD’sRead More →
Fedora, openSUSE and Ubuntu are now available in the Windows Store, making life easier for Windows-dominant organizations to run open source software. I’m a Linux user. And, as the oldRead More →
Hackers got access to usernames, email addresses, and plaintext passwords thanks to improper hashing. DaFont.com was hacked earlier this month, the company announced, exposing its entire database of almost 700,000Read More →
Security researchers have had a busy week since the WannaCry ransomware outbreak that wreaked havoc on computers worldwide. News of the infection and the subsequent viral images showing everything fromRead More →
A tool released on Friday decrypts PCs running a fuller suite of Windows versions. New hope glimmered on Friday for people hit by last week’s virulent ransomware worm after researchersRead More →
Windows XP wasn’t vulnerable to the WannaCry worm but still could be infected with the ransomware. Now there’s a tool to decrypt Windows XP machines attacked by WannaCry. French securityRead More →
We have found evidence of much more sophisticated actors leveraging the NSA ETERNALBLUE exploit to infect, install backdoors and exfiltrate user credentials in networks around the world, including the US,Read More →
BGinfo.exe older than version 4.22 can be used to bypass application whitelisting using vbscript inside a bgi file. This can run directly from a webdav server. My main inspirationRead More →
