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Security · September 16, 2020

Experts discovered BLESA attack, to which are vulnerable billions of Bluetooth devices

Experts from Purdue University have warned that billions of smartphones, tablets, laptops and other devices using Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) are vulnerable to a...

Security · September 15, 2020

Hackers are breaking into cloud servers mainly to mine Monero cryptocurrency

According to Aqua Security report, released this week, attacks on cloud systems have grown by a record 250% over the past year. Interestingly, hackers...

Security · September 14, 2020

IE and Adobe Flash Player users suffer from malicious ads on porn sites

Malwarebytes has discovered the Malsmoke group, whose malicious ads have infiltrated virtually all ad networks that partner with porn sites. Mostly IE and Adobe...

Security · September 11, 2020

Raccoon attack on TLS can be used to decrypt HTTPS traffic

The team of exerts has published a description of a theoretical Raccoon attack on TLS that can be used for decrypting HTTPS connections and...

Security · September 10, 2020

BLURtooth vulnerability allows overwriting Bluetooth authentication keys

Experts from CERT and the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) have released information on the BLURtooth vulnerability, which poses a threat to all devices...

Security · September 7, 2020

Due to vulnerability in File Manager plugin attacked millions of WordPress sites

Last week we reported that in the File Manager plugin was found dangerous vulnerability for WordPress, which allows uploading malicious files to vulnerable sites....

Security · September 4, 2020

Cisco fixed critical vulnerability in Jabber for Windows

This week, Cisco engineers fixed a vulnerability in several versions of Jabber for Windows, video conferencing and messaging application. Fixed issues included an RCE...

Security · September 2, 2020

Hackers attack vulnerability affecting over 350,000 WordPress sites

In the File Manager plugin has been discovered a dangerous vulnerability, which is used by over 700,000 WordPress-based resources and which allows executing commands...

Security · September 1, 2020

Attackers use a three-year-old RCE bug to install backdoors in Qnap NAS

Researchers from the Chinese company Qihoo 360 warn that attackers are still exploiting the RCE-bug in the firmware of Qnap NAS devices, which was...

Security · August 31, 2020

Researcher discovered critical vulnerabilities in Slack and received only $1,750 for it

Evolution Gaming specialist Oscar Vegeris described how at the beginning of 2020 he found a number of critical vulnerabilities in Slack, which made it...

Security · August 28, 2020

Researchers hacked 28000 printers to raise awareness to their insecurity

CyberNews experts spoke about their recent experiment on the insecurity of IoT devices, during which researchers hacked 28000 printers. should be noted that many...

Security · August 24, 2020

Gmail fixed a serious vulnerability that enables email-spoofing

Google developers have fixed a serious vulnerability in gmail that also affected G Suite. fact, the problem allowed an attacker to impersonate any Gmail...