Microsoft releases security updates: a “wormable” threat similar to WannaCry ransomware discovered
Microsoft has taken steps to release security updates for unsupported but still widely-used Windows operating systems like XP and Windows 2003. The company took...
.NET Core releases May 2019 updates
This month, during the Microsoft Build 2019, the team behind .NET Core announced that .NET Core 5 will be coming in 2020. Yesterday the...
Integer overflow flaw in libssh2 identified
This week, NATIONAL VULNERABILITY DATABASE (NVD) identified an integer overflow flaw in libssh2 before the release of version 1.8.1 which could lead to an...
Mozilla developers have built BugBug which uses machine learning to triage Firefox bugs
Yesterday the team at Mozilla announced that the company is receiving hundreds of bug reports and feature requests from Firefox users on a daily...
Microsoft announces: Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac, a fully automated DNA data storage, and...
Microsoft made a series of new announcements, earlier this week. These include a new Microsoft Defender ATP for Mac, a first fully automated DNA...
Researchers prove that Intel SGX and TSX can hide malware from antivirus software
Researchers Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, and Daniel Gruss from Graz University of Technology have published a research paper that demonstrates how the Intel SGX...
Google open sources ClusterFuzz, a scalable fuzzing tool
Google made its scalable fuzzing tool, called ClusterFuzz available as open source, yesterday. ClusterFuzz is used by Google for fuzzing the Chrome Browser, a...
Undetected Linux Backdoor ‘SpeakUp’ infects Linux, MacOS with cryptominers
Security Researchers have discovered a new backdoor trojan, dubbed as ‘SpeakUp’ which exploits known vulnerabilities in six different Linux distributions and has the ability...
Fortnite just fixed a bug that let attackers to fully access user accounts, impersonate...
Yesterday, Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, an online video game acknowledged the existence of a bug in the game (Fortnite). This bug could...
35-year-old vulnerabilities in SCP client discovered by F-Secure researcher
Yesterday, Harry Sintonen, researcher at F-Secure, discovered 35-year-old vulnerabilities associated with SCP (Secure Copy Protocol) client, a network protocol, that uses Secure Shell (SSH)...
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Cloudflare RCA: Major outage was a lot more than “a regular...
On July 2, 2019, Cloudflare suffered a major outage due to a massive spike in CPU utilization in the network. Ten days after the...
