Google is patching a serious bug in the desktop version of its Chrome browser that could let an attacker take over a computer simply by luring them to a website. Source: Google warns of system-controlling […]
Month: August 2019
Google Uncovers How Just Visiting Some Sites Were Secretly Hacking iPhones For Years
Beware Apple users! Your iPhone can be hacked just by visiting an innocent-looking website, confirms a terrifying report Google researchers released earlier today. The story goes back to a widespread iPhone hacking campaign that cybersecurity […]
MIT Boffins Create NanoTube RISC Processor
Those scientists at MIT have been very busy bees. With the world burning around us, they thought we’d need new technology to speed up the destruction. They’ve brought it to us in the form of […]
Cisco 220 Series Public Exploit Available
Cisco warns that public exploits for vulnerabilities to its Cisco 220 Series smart switches are available and should be upgraded to firmware release 1.1.4.4 as soon as possible. See more: Cisco 220 Series Smart Switches […]
Researcher Discloses Second Steam Zero-Day After Valve Bug Bounty Ban
More Woes for Valve after they banned a security researcher from its bug bounty program, the same researcher discovers another zero-day vulnerability affecting the Steam gaming client. Source: Researcher Discloses Second Steam Zero-Day After Valve […]
DejaBlue: Analyzing a RDP Heap Overflow
Check out this interesting piece looking into the latest RDP bugs (CVE-2019-1181 & CVE-2019-1182) patched by Microsoft in August. Read More: DejaBlue
VLC Media Player Allows Desktop Takeover Via Malicious Video Files
VideoLAN has released an updated version of its VLC Player to fix over a dozen bugs. Source: VLC Media Player Allows Desktop Takeover Via Malicious Video Files
