reader comments 51 with 41 posters participating Share this story Until Wednesday, a single text message sent through Cisco’s Jabber collaboration application was all it took to touch off a self-replicating attack that would spread malware from one Windows user to another, researchers who developed the exploit said. The wormable attack was the result of ..
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reader comments 58 with 41 posters participating Share this story Hackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability that allows them to execute commands and malicious scripts on Websites running File Manager, a WordPress plugin with more than 700,000 active installations, researchers said on Tuesday. Word of the attacks came a few hours after the security flaw ..
reader comments 35 with 25 posters participating, including story author Share this story Telecoms and data-center operators take note: attackers are actively trying to exploit a high-severity zeroday vulnerability in Cisco networking devices, the company warned over the weekend. The security flaw resides in Cisco’s iOS XR Software, an operating system for carrier-grade routers and ..
reader comments 125 with 91 posters participating Share this story A billion or more Android devices are vulnerable to hacks that can turn them into spying tools by exploiting more than 400 vulnerabilities in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon chip, researchers reported this week. The vulnerabilities can be exploited when a target downloads a video or other content ..
reader comments 31 with 27 posters participating Share this story Hackers are actively exploiting two unrelated high-severity vulnerabilities that allow unauthenticated access or even a complete takeover of networks run by Fortune 500 companies and government organizations. The most serious exploits are targeting a critical vulnerability in F5’s Big-IP advanced delivery controller, a device that’s ..
Enlarge / A data center stock photo. I spy with my little eye some de-badged EMC Symmetrix DMX-3 or DMX-4 disk bays at right and some de-badged EMC CX disk bays at left. Disk arrays like these are a mainstay of traditional enterprise data center SANs. reader comments 39 with 25 posters participating, including story ..
reader comments 9 with 8 posters participating Share this story Microsoft has published unscheduled fixes for two critical vulnerabilities that make it possible for attackers to execute malicious code on computers running any version of Windows 10. Unlike the vast majority of Windows patches, the ones released on Tuesday were delivered through the Microsoft Store. ..
Enlarge / A mobile PC processor code-named Tiger Lake. It will be the first CPU to offer a security capability known as Control-Flow Enforcement Technology. reader comments 71 with 49 posters participating Share this story The history of hacking has largely been a back-and-forth game, with attackers devising a technique to breach a system, defenders ..
reader comments 33 with 22 posters participating Share this story A researcher has published exploit code for a Microsoft Windows vulnerability that, when left unpatched, has the potential to spread from computer to computer with no user interaction. So-called wormable security flaws are among the most severe, because the exploit of one vulnerable computer can ..
reader comments 45 with 35 posters participating Share this story Google has shipped security patches for dozens of vulnerabilities in its Android mobile operating system, two of which could allow hackers to remotely execute malicious code with extremely high system rights. In some cases, the malware could run with highly elevated privileges, a possibility that ..
