If you own a Xiaomi smartphone or have installed the Mi browser app on any of your other brand Android device, you should enable a newly introduced privacy setting immediately to prevent the company from spying on your online activities. ...
Cybersecurity researcher Mordechai Guri from Israel’s Ben Gurion University of the Negev recently demonstrated a new kind of malware that could be used to covertly steal highly sensitive data from air-gapped and audio-gapped systems using a novel acoustic quirk in ...
A vulnerability affects all versions of the OpenSSH client released in the past two decades, ever since the application was released in 1999. The security bug received a patch this week, but since the OpenSSH client is embedded in a ...
Big changes on the IoT malware scene. Security researchers have spotted a version of the Mirai IoT malware that can run on a vast range of architectures, and even on Android devices. This Mirai malware strain is called Sora, a ...
Microsoft has released multiple microcode updates that mitigate additional variants of the speculative code execution vulnerabilities affecting Intel processors. The patches cover the recently disclosed CPU flaws generically referred to as Foreshadow or L1 Terminal Fault. All security gaps covered by ...
The bug can’t be squashed due to the boot ROM hardcoded onto Nvidia’s chip HACKERS HAVE CRACKED into the Nintendo Switch and figured out how to get the hybrid console to run Linux. According to hacker group fail0verflow, who posted a ...
A Florida software engineer was sentenced to 16 months in prison for helping run an illegal Bitcoin exchange suspected of laundering money for a group of hackers who targeted financial and publishing firms including JPMorgan Chase & Co. and Dow ...
Yahoo! is reminding folks that hackers broke into its systems, and learned how to forge its website’s session cookies. That allowed the miscreants to log into user accounts without ever typing a password. In warnings emailed out this week, the ...