Medical files, containing personal data of patients of University of Washington Medicine, were mistakenly exposed following a data error. UW Medicine, in a press release dated February 20, 2019, has…
Read MoreThe Dark Web is once again is hosting a ‘clearance sale’ of at least 617 million user credentials, collectively coming from recently hacked services including ShareThis, Whitepages, 500px, Dubsmash, and…
Read MoreAn article on ZedNet reads how a security researcher published proof-of-concept (PoC) code for a vulnerability impacting Ubuntu and other Linux distros. Canonical, the parent company of Ubuntu operating system,…
Read MoreA major security flaw under CVE-2019-05736 that has affected runC is now patched, thanks to the hard work of its developers. The vulnerability enabled a guest container’s root privileges to…
Read MoreMicrosoft Office for decades has been mocked for being a bloatware office suite and a favorite target of exploits and hacks for those who wants to take advantage. This is…
Read MoreThe legacy-dependence of the financial sector is very evident, many banks are still using legacy hardware and software to perform their day-to-day operations. Such a legacy system performs admirably when…
Read MoreThe Japanese government is seen as very proactive in its goal of making the 2020 Tokyo Olympics secure as possible, yes including the sector of cybersecurity. Headed by the National…
Read MoreNew attacks that target a recent PHP framework vulnerability have been detected. It was last month that a code vulnerability was detected in the ThinkPHP framework; ThinkPHP is a rapid-development…
Read MoreAs the 2019 Windows update season starts, we are set to witness the last full year of Windows 7 support, while Windows 8.x and 10 will continue to receive updates…
Read MoreA new variant of side-channel attack is recently discovered being actively exploited in the wild against Windows and Linux targets. Publicly revealed in a paper titled ‘Page Cache Attacks’ published…
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