Actively exploited vulnerability gives extraordinary control over server fleets
Hackers are exploiting a maximum-severity vulnerability that has the potential to give them complete control over thousands of servers, many…
Category: Security
Address bar shows hp.com. Browser displays scammers’ malicious text anyway.
Tech support scammers have devised a method to inject their fake phone numbers into webpages when a target’s web browser…
Spy-catcher saw “stupid” tech errors others made. FBI says he then made his own.
Twenty-eight-year-old Nathan Laatsch was, until yesterday, a cybersecurity employee at the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). He had a Top Secret…
Millions of low-cost Android devices turn home networks into crime platforms
Millions of low-cost devices for media streaming, in-vehicle entertainment, and video projection are infected with malware that turns consumer networks…
Found in the wild: 2 Secure Boot exploits. Microsoft is patching only 1 of them.
Researchers have unearthed two publicly available exploits that completely evade protections offered by Secure Boot, the industry-wide mechanism for ensuring…
Windows 11’s most important new feature is post-quantum cryptography. Here’s why.
Microsoft is updating Windows 11 with a set of new encryption algorithms that can withstand future attacks from quantum computers…
An $8.4 billion money launderer has been operating for years on US soil
As the underground industry of crypto investment scams has grown into one of the world’s most lucrative forms of cybercrime,…
Ubuntu disables Intel GPU security mitigations, promises 20% performance boost
Ubuntu users could see up to a 20 percent boost in graphics performance on Intel-based systems under a change that…
“Microsoft has simply given us no other option,” Signal says as it blocks Windows Recall
Signal Messenger is warning the users of its Windows Desktop version that the privacy of their messages is under threat…
Thousands of Asus routers are being hit with stealthy, persistent backdoors
Thousands of home and small office routers manufactured by Asus are being infected with a stealthy backdoor that can survive…