Emma Davis

News · March 15, 2022

Qnap warns that Dirty Pipe vulnerability affects most of the company’s NAS

Taiwanese company Qnap warns users that the recently discovered Dirty Pipe problem in Linux, which allows attackers to gain root privileges, affects most NAS...

News · March 14, 2022

The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine stared using the Clearview AI face recognition system

The Ministry of Defence of Ukraine stared using the Clearview AI facial recognition system - in this way, an American startup helps the Ukrainian...

News · March 11, 2022

The developers fixed 16 dangerous vulnerabilities in the UEFI of HP devices

Firmware security company Binarly has discovered more than a dozen UEFI vulnerabilities on HP devices and probably other manufacturers. vulnerabilities were assigned 16 CVE...

News · March 10, 2022

Dirty Pipe Vulnerability Allows Rooting Almost All Linux Distributions

Data was disclosed about the vulnerability of local privilege escalation in Linux, called Dirty Pipe. A PoC exploit has also been published for a...

News · March 10, 2022

Imperva coped with a DDoS attack with a capacity of 2.5 million requests per second

Security firm Imperva reported that they recently copd with a ransomware DDoS attack targeting an unnamed website that peaked at 2.5 million requests per...

News · February 22, 2022

Chinese hack group APT10 attacks Taiwanese financial sector

According to CyCraft, a Taiwanese security company, the Chinese hack group APT10 (aka Stone Panda, MenuPass and Bronze Riverside) has been attacking the local...

News · February 21, 2022

Privilege escalation vulnerability found in snap-confine

Several vulnerabilities have been found in Snap that is developed by Canonical. The most serious of vulnerabilities, the one in snap-confine, can be used...

News · February 18, 2022

US authorities say Russian hackers attacked US defense contractors

The US government said that from January 2020 to February 2022, Russian government hackers regularly attacked and compromised several of the country's defense contractors....

News · February 17, 2022

Microsoft warns of ice phishing in blockchain and smart contracts

Microsoft has warned of new threats to blockchain and Web3 security, including so-called "ice phishing". to the Microsoft 365 Defender Research Team, phishing has...

News · February 16, 2022

Researcher shows how to extract text from pixelated images

Bishop Fox lead researcher Dan Petro has demonstrated a method for extracting text from pixelated images. Moreover, it is possible to completely restore the...

News · February 15, 2022

Hack group TA2541 was attacking the aviation and transport sectors for years

Proofpoint specialists discovered a hack group, which was assigned the ID TA2541. The researchers believe that the attackers have been operating since 2017 from...

News · February 14, 2022

On the eve of the Super Bowl, the San Francisco 49ers were attacked by extortionists

On the eve of the Super Bowl (the main sporting event of the year in the United States, the final match for the title...