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Today, a team of academics from universities across the world, along with vulnerability researchers from Bitdefender, have disclosed a new security flaw in Intel processors. Named Load Value Injection, or LVI for short, this is a new class of theoretical attacks against Intel CPUs. While the attack has been deemed only a theoretical threat, Intel […] More
Mozilla has released Firefox 74, and it comes with a number of key changes and new features. High on the list of anticipated features is DNS-over-HTTPS, which sends the domain name you typed to a compatible DNS server using an encrypted HTTPS connection rather than plain text, a move that prevents third parties from seeing […] More
In a person-to-person business transaction, when the other person doesn’t know you or know who you are, she may accept credentials that vouch for your identity. Identity management in computer networks is about the following: Whether a set of digital credentials under examination by a service or application can vouch for your identity, and can […] More
A vulnerability impacting Avast and AVG AntiTrack privacy software opened up user PCs to Man-in-The-Middle (MiTM) attacks, browser session hijack, and data theft. Disclosed by David Eade on March 9, the security researcher said the security flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-8987, is a certification validation issue that affects Avast AntiTrack before 1.5.1.172 and AVG AntiTrack before […] More
A ransomware campaign has returned with a new trick to fool the unwary into compromising their network with file-encrypting malware. And it’s an attack which many Windows machines won’t even recognise as potentially malicious. The new variant of Paradise ransomware – which has been active in one form or another since 2017 – spreads via […] More
Microsoft’s first report from its Detection and Response Team (DART), which helps customers in deep cyber trouble, details the case of a large customer with six threat actors simultaneously on its network, including one state-sponsored hacker group that had been stealing data and email for 243 days. The company announced DART in March 2019 as […] More
The proliferation of Internet of Things devices and unsupported operating systems is leaving networks open to simple cyberattacks which, in many cases, should have already been consigned to the dustbin of history. Conficker first emerged in 2008, exploiting flaws in Windows XP and older Microsoft operating systems to spread itself to vulnerable machines and rope […] More
Image: ZDNet The FBI has arrested a Russian national believed to be behind Deer.io, a Shopify-like platform that hosts online stores where hackers advertise and sell hacked accounts and stolen user information. The suspect, named Kirill Victorovich Firsov, was arrested on Saturday, March 7, at the John F. Kennedy Airport, in New York, according to […] More
