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[Guide] How to Protect Your Devices Against Meltdown and Spectre Attacks

vendredi 5 janvier 2018 à 09:18
Recently uncovered two huge processor vulnerabilities called Meltdown and Spectre have taken the whole world by storm, while vendors are rushing out to patch the vulnerabilities in its products. The issues apply to all modern processors and affect nearly all operating systems (Windows, Linux, Android, iOS, macOS, FreeBSD, and more), smartphones and other computing devices made in the past 20

Hundreds of GPS Location Tracking Services Leaving User Data Open to Hackers

jeudi 4 janvier 2018 à 12:40
Security researchers have unearthed multiple vulnerabilities in hundreds of GPS services that could enable attackers to expose a whole host of sensitive data on millions of online location tracking devices managed by vulnerable GPS services. The series of vulnerabilities discovered by two security researchers, Vangelis Stykas and Michael Gruhn, who dubbed the bugs as 'Trackmageddon' in a

Meltdown and Spectre CPU Flaws Affect Intel, ARM, AMD Processors

jeudi 4 janvier 2018 à 07:34
Unlike the initial reports suggested about Intel chips being vulnerable to some severe ‘memory leaking’ flaws, full technical details about the vulnerabilities have now been emerged, which revealed that almost every modern processor since 1995 is vulnerable to the issues. Disclosed today by Google Project Zero, the vulnerabilities potentially impact all major CPUs, including those from AMD,

Huge Flaw Found in Intel Processors; Patch Could Hit 5-30% CPU Performance

mercredi 3 janvier 2018 à 17:48
The first week of the new year has not yet been completed, and very soon a massive vulnerability is going to hit hundreds of millions of Windows, Linux, and Mac users worldwide. According to a blog post published yesterday, the core team of Linux kernel development has prepared a critical kernel update without releasing much information about the vulnerability. Multiple researchers on

Critical Flaw Reported In phpMyAdmin Lets Attackers Damage Databases

mardi 2 janvier 2018 à 16:30
A critical security vulnerability has been reported in phpMyAdmin—one of the most popular applications for managing the MySQL database—which could allow remote attackers to perform dangerous database operations just by tricking administrators into clicking a link. Discovered by an Indian security researcher, Ashutosh Barot, the vulnerability is a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attack and