4 Major Privacy and Security Updates From Google You Should Know About

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Google has announced a number of user-facing and under-the-hood changes in an attempt to boost privacy and security, including rolling out two-factor authentication automatically to all eligible users and bringing …

Top 12 Security Flaws Russian Spy Hackers Are Exploiting in the Wild

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Cyber operatives affiliated with the Russian Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) have switched up their tactics in response to previous public disclosures of their attack methods, according to a new advisory jointly published …

New TsuNAME Flaw Could Let Attackers Take Down Authoritative DNS Servers

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Security researchers Thursday disclosed a new critical vulnerability affecting Domain Name System (DNS) resolvers that could be exploited by adversaries to carry out reflection-based denial-of-service attacks against authoritative nameservers. The …

Critical Flaws Hit Cisco SD-WAN vManage and HyperFlex Software

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Networking equipment major Cisco has rolled out software updates to address multiple critical vulnerabilities impacting HyperFlex HX and SD-WAN vManage Software that could allow an attacker to perform command injection …

New Stealthy Rootkit Infiltrated Networks of High-Profile Organizations

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An unknown threat actor with the capabilities to evolve and tailor its toolset to target environments infiltrated high-profile organizations in Asia and Africa with an evasive Windows rootkit since at …

New Qualcomm Chip Bug Could Let Hackers Spy On Android Devices

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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a new security vulnerability in Qualcomm’s mobile station modems (MSM) that could potentially allow an attacker to leverage the underlying Android operating system to slip malicious …

New Spectre Flaws in Intel and AMD CPUs Affect Billions of Computers

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When Spectre, a class of critical vulnerabilities impacting modern processors, was publicly revealed in January 2018, the researchers behind the discovery said, “As it is not easy to fix, it will haunt us …