Microsoft Explains How It's Fighting Coronavirus-Related Cyber Attacks By Nathaniel Mott Microsoft published a blog post explaining how it's defending Windows users against coronavirus-related cyber attacks.
Windows 10 Fall Creators Update Support Extended Because of Coronavirus By Nathaniel Mott Microsoft announced that it will support Windows 10 version 1709, the Fall Creators Update, until October 13 because of COVID-19.
The Coronavirus Cyber Scam Business Keeps Growing By Nathaniel Mott Researchers have discovered thousands of malicious websites taking advantage of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.
Fake Coronavirus Quarantine Text Messages May Be Result of Cyberattack By Niels Broekhuijsen The U.S. Health and Human Services Department suffered an hours-long cyberattack that might have led to false quarantine messages.
People Are Using a Live Coronavirus Map to Distribute Malware, Because They Suck By Nathaniel Mott Malware distributors are reportedly using a live Coronavirus infection tracker to attack unwitting web browsers.
Rowhammer Attacks Pushed Through Despite Security Mitigations By Nathaniel Mott Researchers found ways to conduct Rowhammer attacks on DDR4 RAM despite the industry's mitigations.
Infostealers Already Cracking Chrome’s Latest Updates By Michelle Ehrhardt Chrome 80's new AES-256 algorithm fails to keep infostealers away from user cookies and passwords.
EU Needs Its Own Operating System, Finnish Minister Says By Niels Broekhuijsen The EU needs its own operating system for independence and cybersecurity, Finnish minister Katri Kulmuni said.
Hackers Have More Earning Potential Than IT Pros, Bounty Program Report Finds By Nathaniel Mott HackerOne's latest report said a hacker's potential earnings is "well above" $90,000.
Kr00k Security Flaw Exposes Wi-Fi Traffic of Raspberry Pi, MacBooks, Routers and More: What to Do By Nathaniel Mott A security vulnerability called Kr00k can be exploited to reveal the Wi-Fi traffic of devices using chips from Broadcom and Cypress.
Intel Says it Doubled Down on Fixing Security Bugs in 2019 By Lucian Armasu Intel released a report claiming it found almost two-thirds of related security bugs discovered in 2019, with most of the remaining found through its bug bounty program.
Kaspersky Blames Microsoft For Buggy Windows 10 Patch By Lucian Armasu Kaspersky Labs blamed Microsoft for the latest Windows 10 update breaking features on users' systems, after Microsoft revoked vulnerable UEFI signatures and forgot to tell Kaspersky about it.
Kingston's USB Flash Drive the D300 IronKey Receives NATO Security Certification By Zak Storey With impressive write speeds and strong encryption support the D300 IronKey has also received NATO level security certification as well
A WordPress Extension Put 200,000 Websites at Risk of Being Taken Over By Nathaniel Mott The ThemeGrill Demo Importer extension for WordPress reportedly put 200,000 websites at risk of being taken over.
Peripherals In Dell, HP, Lenovo PCs Leave Millions Vulnerable To Attack, Research Finds By Lucian Armasu Eclypsium researchers have uncovered that millions of systems made by Dell, HP, Lenovo and others could be exploited and taken over because the peripheral firmware isn't signed and encrypted.
US Agencies Publicly Blame North Korea for Numerous Malware Campaigns By Nathaniel Mott U.S. agencies publicly blamed North Korea for numerous malware campaigns.
US, EU Launch New Broad Inquiries Into Big Tech Companies By Lucian Armasu The U.S. FTC and the European Commission have started inquiries into big technology companies to learn how they've been abusing their market positions to kill off or hurt smaller players.
Intel Discovers Security Flaw in CSME Firmware By Lucian Armasu The flaw means vulnerability to privilege escalation, denial of service and information disclosure.
US Feds Say Huawei Is Using Telecom Backdoors it Made Mandatory By Lucian Armasu The U.S. government claimed to WSJ that it has evidence Huawei has backdoor access to U.S. telecom equipment.
Research: Macs Saw Almost Twice as Much Malware as Windows PCs in 2019 By Niels Broekhuijsen Malwarebytes' latest malware report found that threats against Macs increased by over 400% year-over-year.
