Microsoft has reminded users to patch the Windows flaw traced as BlueKeep and CVE-2019-0708 owing to the high risk of misuse. The flaw impacts Windows Remote Desktop Services (RDS) and it was addressed by Microsoft with its May 2019 Patch Tuesday updates. The vulnerability has been labeled by the company as Continue Reading
To address recently revealed SQLite and WebKit security vulnerability, Apple this week released updates for iTunes and iCloud for Windows applications. iTunes for Windows 12.9.5 was issued with patches for as many as 25 flaws. Of these, four affect SQLite, while the residual 21 were addressed in WebKit. The SQLite Continue Reading
It was reported yesterday that the online graphic-design tool website Canva was massively breached wherein a hacker pilfered upwards of 139 million accounts of registered users. Now, according to the security notice published by the company, Flipboard, the highly popular social sharing and news aggregation app, has been hacked twice in Continue Reading
Chinese hackers compromised upwards of 50,000 MS-SQL and PHPMyAdmin as part of a large-scale cryptojacking drive called Nansh0u. The malicious campaign is allegedly being conducted by an APT-style Chinese hacking group who has already infected nearly 50,000 servers and are connecting a classy kernel-mode rootkit on compromised systems to avert Continue Reading
Two weeks following Microsoft’s warning of Windows RDP worms, a million internet-facing boxes are still vulnerable. Designated CVE-2019-0708 and called BlueKeep, the flaw can be misused by malefactors to perform malevolent code and install malware on susceptible machines without the need for any user verification: a hacker simply has to Continue Reading
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