Cyber Security Newsfeeds from around the world
Reports are now in that a team of hacktivists named ‘The Ghost Squad Hackers’ was responsible for the downtime caused on the Google-owned Youtube servers. They disclosed to the world by self-boasting about the disruption on Twitter this morning without…
Continue ReadingAs technology evolves, so do hackers. Armed with a deviously brilliant mind and superior knowledge of the latest technologies, today’s hackers are breaching organisations’ cybersecurity with surprising ease. The latest victim of a sophisticated cyber f…
Continue ReadingA security researcher from Colombia has found a way of gaining admin rights and boot persistence on Windows PCs that’s simple to execute and hard to stop –all the features that hackers and malware authors are looking for from an exploitation technique.
Continue ReadingYesterday, the SEC issued an investigative report under Section 21(a) that advises public companies subject to the internal accounting controls requirements of Exchange Act Section 13(b)(2)(B) of the need to consider cyber threats when implementing int…
Continue Reading1) Path traversal Description. The vulnerability allows a remote attacker to obtain potentially sensitive information. The weakness exists due to path traversal in the web interface on D-Link routers. A remote attacker can send a /.. or // after “GET /…
Continue Reading#1233425: NovelMiner Monero Mining Malware. Translated from Chinese website Using short links to jump to long URLs is a common way for users to share links, especially in the case of word limit, long URLs are not conducive to display, short-chain gener…
Continue ReadingCurrent Description. In Universal Media Server (UMS) 7.1.0, the XML parsing engine for SSDP/UPnP functionality is vulnerable to an XML External Entity Processing (XXE) attack. Remote, unauthenticated attackers can use this vulnerability to: (1) Access …
Continue ReadingDescription. Huawei Mate 10 pro smartphones with the versions before BLA-AL00B 8.1.0.326(C00) have an improper authentication vulnerability. App Lock is a function to prevent unauthorized use of apps on smartphones, an attacker could directly change th…
Continue Reading“View As” Facebook hack affects 90 million users In late September Facebook revealed details of a security breach they had apparently first spotted close to two weeks earlier. The problem was rooted in a feature (View as) allowing users to view their F…
Continue ReadingA fairly serious 4-year old libssh bug has left servers vulnerable to remote compromise, fortunately, the attack surface isn’t that big as neither OpenSSH or the GitHub implementation are affected. The bug is in the not so widely used libSSH library, n…
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