by Surur
4 days
Chinese security company Qihoo 360 has discovered a new form of malware currently in the wild which is actively exploiting a zero-day flaw in Internet Explorer to install a backdoor trojan on the PC of Windows users. Users do not...
by Surur
7 days
Google’s Project Zero team has done it again, releasing a “Medium Severity” exploit for Windows 10 S which means users will be able to run arbitrary code on Microsoft’s locked down operating system, Windows...
by Surur
1 week
A security researcher has found that LinkedIn’s AutoFill plugin is vulnerable to leaking member data, including name, email address, location, phone number and where you work if the site using the feature is vulnerable to cr...
1 week
Shortly after a similar ban by Russia last week, Iran may be moving to effect a ban on the Telegram messaging service. According to a report by the Guardian, the middle-eastern country is on the verge of banning the service in the...
1 week
Google is taking down fake ad blockers from the Chrome Web Store in response to reports that these extensions were fake. An AdGuard researcher found that 5 ad-blocking extensions on the Chrome Web store were fake, they were malici...
1 week
With Windows 10, Microsoft lets you choose whether UWPS can access all your file libraries by default or not. This means for an app, you’ll have had to give it access not only to save and read from your file system but which...
by Surur
2 weeks
A Microsoft employee is currently facing federal charges for money-laundering and conspiracy related to a wave of ransomware attacks in 2012. 41-year-old Raymond Uadiale was then involved in laundering the money victims of the R...
2 weeks
Security researchers have found that Android manufacturers have been engaging in a dangerous game. In a test of over 1200 phones from a dozen manufacturers, the security firm SRL found that for some phones, several OEMs would te...
1 month
Microsoft has come under fire for shipping a keylogger with Windows 10, hoovering up user data from typing users and uploading it to Redmond servers. Naturally, Microsoft did not have an actual keylogger, it would use Windows diag...
by Anmol
1 month
Since Windows 10 was launched back in 2015, Microsoft has been advertising it as the best Windows yet in terms of security. The claims, however, weren’t backed by an independent firm until now. A security report published b...
by Surur
1 month
A security researcher has discovered that Firefox has been protecting your stored passwords weakly for the past 9 years, using an outdated scheme which can be cracked by modern GPUs in less than 1 minute. Firefox and Thunderbird b...