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- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 18th, 2018
Report Says Facebook Believes Spammers Were Behind September Security Attack
Social network's investigation blames fake advertisers
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 18th, 2018
Code Execution Vulnerability Patched in Library Used by VLC, Other Media Players
The stack-based buffer overflow can be exploited remotely
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 18th, 2018
Facebook Creates War Room to Combat Fake News Ahead of September Elections
Machine learning and AI are used to block fake accounts
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 18th, 2018
Thousands of Neoflam Clients Had Their Data Leaked After Buying Frying Pans
The company exposed the private info of around 7500 clients
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 17th, 2018
Cisco Patches Remotely Exploitable High Risk Security Bugs in Multiple Products
Could lead to disclosure of confidential info, DoS condition
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 17th, 2018
Tumblr Patches Security Issue that Would Leak Emails, Hashed-Salted Passwords
The bug affected Tumblr's Recommended Blogs feature
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 17th, 2018
Information of 396K Users Exposed in Facepunch Data Breach
The leak included salted MD5 password hashes and usernames
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 17th, 2018
FBI Releases Document with Measures for Defending Against Payroll Phishing Scams
Scammers replace direct deposit information to steal funds
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 17th, 2018
Oracle Patched Over 300 Vulnerabilities in Its Q3 2018 Critical Patch Update
Only CVE-2018-2913 got a perfect 10 risk rating
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 16th, 2018
VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion Affected by Critical Out-of-Bounds Read
SVGA security bug allows guest to execute code on host
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 16th, 2018
New iOS Passcode Bypass Allows Viewing and Sharing Photos from Locked iPhones
Works on iOS 12.0.1, uses VoiceOver to bypass screen lock
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 16th, 2018
Author of LuminosityLink Remote Access Trojan Gets 30 Months Sentence
FBI also seized all the money he made by selling his RAT
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 16th, 2018
Multiple Vulnerabilities Allow Attackers to Take Full Control of Linksys Routers
Linksys fixed all vulnerabilities, patch available
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 16th, 2018
Sony Fixed PlayStation 4 Message Exploit Leading to a DoS Condition
Console bricking message actually sent them into crash loop
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 16th, 2018
Info of 685 Million Users at Risk Because of Multiple Branch.io XSS Flaws
The DOM-based XSS vulnerabilities are now fixed
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 15th, 2018
400 Percent Increase in Cryptocurrency Mining Attacks Against iOS Devices
Four-fold increase against devices using the Safari browser
- By Sergiu Gatlan
- October 15th, 2018
Malware Campaign Distributes Data Stealer Trojan/RAT, Circumvents Anti-Malware
Uses complex obfuscation techniques to avoid detection