The Hacker News Apple has rolled out a fix for a critical sudo vulnerability in macOS Big Sur, Catalina, and Mojave that could allow unauthenticated local users to gain root-level privileges on the system. A …
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Mullvad That’s it. We are officially out of ports. We knew this day would come; that 16 bits of memory in the TCP packet simply wouldn’t be enough to provide port forwarding for everyone. That’s …
Ars Technica The Trump administration spent the last two years going to war with Huawei, calling the company a national security risk due to its alleged ties with the Chinese government. An executive order barred …
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9to5Linux Canonical released today a new Linux kernel security update for its Ubuntu 20.10 (Groovy Gorilla) and Ubuntu 20.04 LTS (Focal Fossa) systems to address a single security vulnerability. The vulnerability (CVE-2021-26708) was discovered by …
ZDNet TikTok, the video-sharing social network, drove a lot of interest from consumers last year. It also piqued their interest in Virtual Private Networks (VPNs), according to new research. The research by Brooklyn, NY-based security …
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ZDNet The inner workings of the Domestic Kitten hacking group’s surveillance operations have been disclosed by researchers. Domestic Kitten, also tracked as APT-C-50, is an advanced persistent threat (APT) group. First discovered in 2018, the …
The Hacker News Twin cyber operations conducted by state-sponsored Iranian threat actors demonstrate their continued focus on compiling detailed dossiers on Iranian citizens that could threaten the stability of the Islamic Republic, including dissidents, opposition …
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Mullvad Whenever you or our other dear customers reach out asking if we could please, please, pleeeease, set up a server in your country, those pleas do not go unnoticed. As with most choices in …
The Ziggy ransomware operation has shut down and released the victims’ decryption keys after concerns about recent law enforcement activity and guilt for encrypting victims. Over the weekend, security researcher M. Shahpasandi told BleepingComputer that the Ziggy Ransomware admin …
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Bleeping Computer Google has removed a popular Android barcode scanner app with over 10 million installs from the Play Store after researchers found that it turned malicious following a December 2020 update. After lying dormant …
Android app joins the dark side, sends malware update to millions Read More »
Naked Security Google, whose Project Zero bug-hunting team is often surprisingly vocal when describing and discussing software vulnerabilities, has taken a very quiet approach to a just-patched bug in its Chrome browser. Full article
Ars Technica Users of Google’s Chrome browser have faced three security concerns over the past 24 hours in the form of a malicious extension with more than 2 million users, a just-fixed zero-day, and new …
Chrome users have faced 3 security concerns over the past 24 hours Read More »