[ad_1] While the perpetrators haven’t been identified, there are suspicions that it may be a Middle Eastern country trying to clamp down on criticism of its human rights practices. There was a failed attempt on May 12th to compromise the phone of a UK-based human rights lawyer who helped a Saudi dissident in Canada and […]
Category: vulnerability
Internet Explorer security flaw allows hackers to steal files
[ad_1] The vulnerability affects Windows 7, Windows 10 and Windows Server 2012 R2. This wouldn’t be an issue if it weren’t for the disclosure of the flaw. Page posted details of the exploit after Microsoft reportedly declined to roll out an urgent security fix. It instead said a fix would be “considered” in a future […]
Researchers find 36 security flaws in LTE
[ad_1] On top of this, the problem is rarely consistent. One carrier can have different vulnerabilities on two pieces of networking equipment, while one piece of network gear can have create headaches on two separate carriers. The research team plans to officially present its findings at a conference in May, and they’re sharing their tool […]
DHS issues warning about Medtronic implantable defibrillator flaws
[ad_1] (This is one of the affected Medtronic programmers, which allow doctors to tweak the implant’s settings.) Implantable defibrillators are placed under the skin to monitor the patient’s heart. If they detect a wildly irregular rhythm, they shoot out electric shocks to restore the person’s normal heartbeat. The vulnerabilities allow bad actors to change or […]
Facebook Messenger bug let other people see who you’d been talking to
[ad_1] In a blog post, Imperva security researcher Ron Masas explains how a CSFL attack could exploit the properties of iFrame elements to determine the state of an application. Running this process through individual Messenger contacts would yield one of two states, full or empty, indicating whether a user had ever communicated with that contact […]