Survey: Americans Spent $1.4B on Credit Freeze Fees in Wake of Equifax Breach

Almost 20 percent of Americans froze their credit file with one or more of the big three credit bureaus in the wake of last year's data breach at Equifax, costing consumers an estimated $1.4 billion, according to a new study. The findings come as lawmakers in Congress are debating legislation tha...

How to generate a complete crash dump file or a kernel crash dump file in vSphere by using an NMI from the ESX host

When you have a computer that is frozen but not crashing, you might need to have an analysis done on a DMP file produced while the machine is in its hung state. You may want to use the CTRL+SCROLL LOCK+SCROLL LOCK keyboard shortcut to generate a crash dump file. This shortcut may be useful in...

Microsoft Windows Multiple Vulnerabilities (KB4074596)

This host is missing a critical security update according to Microsoft KB4074596 SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2018 Greenbone AG Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only ifdescription...

openSUSE: Security Advisory for plasma5-workspace (openSUSE-SU-2018:0397-1)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2018 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

Security update for plasma5-workspace (important)

This update for plasma5-workspace fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: - CVE-2018-6790: Desktop notifications could have been used to load arbitrary remote images into Plasma, allowing for client IP discovery boo1079429 - CVE-2018-6791: A specially crafted fil...

Security update for plasma5-workspace (important)

This update for plasma5-workspace fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: - CVE-2018-6790: Desktop notifications could have been used to load arbitrary remote images into Plasma, allowing for client IP discovery boo1079429 - CVE-2018-6791: A specially crafted fil...

OPENSUSE-SU-2018:0398-1 Security update for plasma5-workspace

This update for plasma5-workspace fixes security issues and bugs. The following vulnerabilities were fixed: - CVE-2018-6790: Desktop notifications could have been used to load arbitrary remote images into Plasma, allowing for client IP discovery boo1079429 - CVE-2018-6791: A specially crafted fil...

CVE-2018-6407

An issue was discovered on Conceptronic CIPCAMPTIWL V3 0.61.30.21 devices. An unauthenticated attacker can crash a device by sending a POST request with a huge body size to /hy-cgi/devices.cgi?cmd=searchlandevice. The crash completely freezes the device...

CVE-2018-6407

An issue was discovered on Conceptronic CIPCAMPTIWL V3 0.61.30.21 devices. An unauthenticated attacker can crash a device by sending a POST request with a huge body size to /hy-cgi/devices.cgi?cmd=searchlandevice. The crash completely freezes the device...

chaiOS “Text Bomb” Can Freeze & Crash Your iPhone

By Uzair Amir A software developer Abraham Masri has managed to identify a This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: chaiOS Text Bomb Can Freeze Crash Your iPhone...

Anti-Virus Updates Required Ahead of Microsoft’s Meltdown, Spectre Patches

Microsoft said it is holding off delivering security updates to Windows PCs for Spectre and Meltdown CPU flaws until hosted anti-virus software confirms it does not make unsupported calls into Windows kernel memory. Affected are PCs running certain AV products that bypass Windows built-in Kernel...

Amazon Key Weakness Vulnerability

Amazon Key is a smart lock service from Amazon USA. A security vulnerability exists in Amazon Key 2017-11-16 and earlier versions. An attacker could use the vulnerability to freeze the camera feed...

CVE-2017-16867

Amazon Key through 2017-11-16 mishandles Cloud Cam 802.11 deauthentication frames during the delivery process, which makes it easier for 1 delivery drivers to freeze a camera and re-enter a house for unfilmed activities or 2 attackers to freeze a camera and enter a house if a delivery driver fail...

CVE-2017-16867

Amazon Key through 2017-11-16 mishandles Cloud Cam 802.11 deauthentication frames during the delivery process, which makes it easier for 1 delivery drivers to freeze a camera and re-enter a house for unfilmed activities or 2 attackers to freeze a camera and enter a house if a delivery driver fail...

CVE-2017-16867: Undefined Security Weakness

Amazon Key through 2017-11-16 mishandles Cloud Cam 802.11 deauthentication frames during the delivery process, which makes it easier for 1 delivery drivers to freeze a camera and re-enter a house for unfilmed activities or 2 attackers to freeze a camera and enter a house if a delivery driver fail...

Windows NTLM Auth Hash Disclosure / Denial Of Service

Hello, I want to share some information with the people on the list. On May 24, I found a problem with NTLM auth on Windows. Under certain circumstances a shared folder on Windows can be abused remotely to obtain the user credentials and to freeze the machine. This was already reported to MSRC on...

Experian Flaw Lets Attacker Obtain Credit Freeze PIN and Access Account

By Waqas Plenty of consumers decided to go for a credit freeze This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Experian Flaw Lets Attacker Obtain Credit Freeze PIN and Access Account...

Experian Site Can Give Anyone Your Credit Freeze PIN

An alert reader recently pointed my attention to a free online service offered by big-three credit bureau Experian that allows anyone to request the personal identification number PIN needed to unlock a consumer credit file that was previously frozen at Experian. Experian's page for retrieving...

Moving Forward and Backward From the Equifax breach

By now most financially or technically savvy people are aware of the breach disclosed by Equifax on September 7th. Equifax reports that the incident affected 143 million Americans, which is well over half of the estimated 250 million adults in the United States. The data accessed is as sensitive ...

Equifax aftermath: How to protect against identity theft

Who here is scrambling around in the aftermath of the recent breach at Equifax to figure out if you've been compromised? Who here is wondering what to do about it if you are? If you're one of the 143 million Americans whose data was accessed by cybercriminals, then you probably raised your hand...