Malware Can Exploit New Flaw in Intel CPUs to Launch Side-Channel Attacks

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A new research has yielded yet another means to pilfer sensitive data by exploiting what’s the first “on-chip, cross-core” side-channel in Intel Coffee Lake and Skylake processors. Published by a …

Bug in Apple’s Find My Feature Could’ve Exposed Users’ Location Histories

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Cybersecurity researchers on Thursday disclosed two distinct design and implementation flaws in Apple’s crowdsourced Bluetooth location tracking system that can lead to a location correlation attack and unauthorized access to …

Google Cloud Certifications — Get Prep Courses and Practice Tests at 95% Discount

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As cloud computing continues to grow, Google Cloud is quickly becoming one of the most popular solutions.  However, relatively few engineers know this platform well. This leaves the door open …

Researchers Find 3 New Malware Strains Used by SolarWinds Hackers

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FireEye and Microsoft on Thursday said they discovered three more malware strains in connection with the SolarWinds supply-chain attack, including a “sophisticated second-stage backdoor,” as the investigation into the sprawling espionage …

Google Will Use ‘FLoC’ for Ad Targeting Once 3rd-Party Cookies Are Dead

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Signaling a major shift to its ads-driven business model, Google on Wednesday unequivocally stated it would not build alternate identifiers or tools to track users across multiple websites once it …

CISA Issues Emergency Directive on In-the-Wild Microsoft Exchange Flaws

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Following Microsoft’s release of out-of-band patches to address multiple zero-day flaws in on-premises versions of Microsoft Exchange Server, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued an emergency directive warning …

Hackers Now Hiding ObliqueRAT Payload in Images to Evade Detection

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Cybercriminals are now deploying remote access Trojans (RATs) under the guise of seemingly innocuous images hosted on infected websites, once again highlighting how threat actors quickly change tactics when their …