Tuesday, June 27th, 2017
A new strain of ransomware dubbed “Petya” is worming its way around the world with alarming speed. The malware is spreading using a vulnerability in Microsoft Windows that the software giant patched in March 2017 — the same bug that was exploited by the recent and prolific WannaCry ransomware strain.
According ...
Posted in Internet, Security, Windows | No Comments
Friday, May 5th, 2017
Earlier this week Intel announced a critical escalation of privilege bug that affects its remote management features shipping with Intel Server chipsets for past 7 years, which, if exploited, would allow a remote attacker to take control of vulnerable PCs, laptops, or servers.
The vulnerability, labeled CVE-2017-5689, affects Intel remote management ...
Posted in Hardware, Internet, Security | No Comments
Saturday, April 15th, 2017
This is getting a ton of press lately, but here is Microsoft's response to the latest leaks:
Today, Microsoft triaged a large release of exploits made publicly available by Shadow Brokers. Understandingly, customers have expressed concerns around the risk this disclosure potentially creates. Our engineers have investigated the disclosed exploits, and ...
Posted in Internet, Security, Windows | No Comments
Saturday, April 8th, 2017
There's a new zeroday attack in the wild that's surreptitiously installing malware on fully-patched computers. It does so by exploiting a vulnerability in most or all versions of Microsoft Word.
The attack starts with an e-mail that attaches a malicious Word document, according to a blog post published Saturday by researchers ...
Posted in Internet, Security, Windows | No Comments
Wednesday, February 1st, 2017
For the past half year Netgear has been working on fixing a serious and easy-to-exploit vulnerability in many of its routers. And it's still not done.
While Netgear has worked to fix the issue, the list of affected router models increased to 30, of which only 20 have firmware fixes available ...
Posted in Hardware, Internet, Networking, Security | No Comments
Page 2 of 62«12345...102030...»Last »
