Snapchat internal staff has allegedly abused their role in the company to spy on Snapchat users using and internal tools and steal data. Snapchat is a multimedia messaging app that makes pictures, videos, and messages (snaps) available for a short time before they become inaccessible to their recipients. Initially, it was only allowing person-to-person photo sharing, but now […]
Sophos is warning users of potential problems with the recent Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates and is saying to roll back it if they want the PC to boot. The security firm has informed its customers of potential problems with the latest Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates and is asking them to uninstall the patch if they […]
US Commerce Department will delay 90 days before to apply the announced Huawei ban to avoid huge disruption of the operations. During the weekend, the Reuters agency revealed in exclusive that Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the telco giant. On Thursday, President Trump added Huawei Technologies to […]
Experts discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in the Linux Kernel, tracked as CVE-2019-11815, that affects the implementation of RDS over TCP. Experts discovered a memory corruption vulnerability in Linux Kernel that resides in the implementation of the Reliable Datagram Sockets (RDS) over TCP. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2019-11815 could lead to privilege escalation, it received a […]
The Reuters agency revealed in exclusive that Alphabet Inc’s Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the telco giant. The news a bomb, Google has suspended some business with Huawei after Trump’s ban on the Chinese telco giant. In November, The Wall Street Journal reported that the US Government is urging its allies […]
Unistellar attackers have already wiped roughly 12,000 unsecured MongoDB databases exposed online over the past three. Every time hackers deleted a MongoDB database they left a message asking the administrators to contact them to restore the data. Unfortunately, the criminal practice of deleting MongoDB databases and request a ransom to restore data is common, experts […]
A new political misinformation campaign was uncovered and blocked by Facebook, this time it was not operated by Russia but Israel’s Archimedes Group Facebook uncovered and blocked a misinformation campaign powered by Israel’ Archimedes Group, the corporation used fake accounts to manipulated political campaigns. According to Facebook, the Archimedes Group used hundreds of pages, accounts, […]
White hat hackers at Google Project Zero are tracking cyber attacks exploiting zero-days before the vendor released security fixes. Experts at Google Project Zero are tracking cyber attacks exploiting zero-days as part of a project named 0Day ‘In the Wild.’ “Today, we’re sharing our tracking spreadsheet for publicly known cases of detected zero-day exploits, in the […]
Microsoft has renewed its Attack Surface Analyzer tool to take advantage of modern, cross-platform technologies. The first version of the Attack Surface Analyzer 1.0 was released back in 2012, it aims at detecting and changes that occur in the Windows operating systems during the installation of third-party applications. The Analyzer has been released on GitHub, it […]
Titan Security Keys are affected by a severe vulnerability, for this reason, Google announced it is offering a free replacement for vulnerable devices. Google announced it is offering a free replacement for Titan Security keys affected by a serious vulnerability that could be exploited by to carry out Bluetooth attacks. The Titan Security Keys were introduced by […]