CVE-2020-14664

Vulnerability in the Java SE product of Oracle Java SE component: JavaFX. The supported version that is affected is Java SE: 8u251. Difficult to exploit vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker with network access via multiple protocols to compromise Java SE. Successful attacks require human...

What Is a Side Channel Attack?

Computers constantly give off more information than you might realize—which hackers can use to pry out their secrets...

Fake “Corona Antivirus” distributes BlackNET remote administration tool

Scammers and malware authors are taking advantage of the coronavirus crisis in full swing. We have seen a number of spam campaigns using COVID-19 as a lure to trick people into installing a variety of malware, but especially data stealers. As more of us work from home, the need to secure your...

Scripting Engine Information Disclosure Vulnerability

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when Chakra improperly discloses the contents of its memory, which could provide an attacker with information to further compromise the user’s computer or data. To exploit the vulnerability, an attacker must know the memory address of where the objec...

Popular forms of cybercrime you should be aware of

By David Balaban Cybercrime is any criminal activity where the main object as a target and/or as a tool is a computer or network... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Popular forms of cybercrime you should be aware of...

10 Powerful But Not Yet Promoted Antivirus for PC, Mac, Android, iPhone

By Lesley Haught The vulnerability of the regular computer user is at an all-time high. Not even the strongest of world governments have been able to stay safe from attacks, unauthorized accesses, and data leakages attempted by hackers, malware programs. The big question, then, that every compute...

Arbitrary Code Execution

firefox/thunderbird is vulnerable to arbitrary code execution. Insufficient vetting of parameters passed with the Prompt:Open IPC message between child and parent processes can result in the non-sandboxed parent process opening web content chosen by a compromised child process. When combined with...

Beckhoff CP7731-0000-0050 Industrial Computer Detection

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Acromag XVME-6700 Industrial Computer Detection

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Locked Computers

This short video explains why computers regularly came with physical locks in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The one thing the video doesn't talk about is RAM theft. When RAM was expensive, stealing it was a problem...

Former Mozilla CTO Harassed at the US Border

This is a pretty awful story of how Andreas Gal, former Mozilla CTO and US citizen, was detained and threatened at the US border. CBP agents demanded that he unlock his phone and computer. Know your rights when you enter the US. The EFF publishes a handy guide. And if you want to encrypt your...

How to Check Your Computer for Hacked Asus Software Update

Hackers compromised Asus’s Live Update tool to distribute malware to almost 1 million people. Here’s how to see if your computer has it...

An Argument that Cybersecurity Is Basically Okay

Andrew Odlyzko's new essay is worth reading -- "Cybersecurity is not very important": Abstract: There is a rising tide of security breaches. There is an even faster rising tide of hysteria over the ostensible reason for these breaches, namely the deficient state of our information infrastructure...

USB Cable with Embedded Wi-Fi Controller

It's only a prototype, but this USB cable has an embedded Wi-Fi controller. Whoever controls that Wi-Fi connection can remotely execute commands on the attached computer...

CVE-2018-8552

An information disclosure vulnerability exists when VBScript improperly discloses the contents of its memory, which could provide an attacker with information to further compromise the user's computer or data, aka "Windows Scripting Engine Memory Corruption Vulnerability." This affects Internet...

Windows Update の利用手順 – Windows 7 の場合

本ブログ記事は初級レベルから中級レベルのコンピューター ユーザーを対象にしています。 Windows 10 をお使いのお客...

Microsoft Windows: Hardware-based encryption: Restrict encryption algorithms

This policy setting allows you to manage BitLocker 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...

HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel Driver Null Pointer Vulnerability

HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel driver is a kernel driver for AMD64 from HWiNF Czech Republic. A security vulnerability exists in HWiNFO AMD64 Kernel driver version 8.98 and earlier. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to directly read physical memory and copy content to virtual addresses...

How to protect your computer from malicious cryptomining

Noticing that your computer is running slow? While sometimes a telltale sign of infection, these days that seems doubly true. And the reason is: malicious cryptomining. So, what, exactly, is it? We'll tell you how bad this latest malware phenomenon is for you and your computer, plus what you can ...

Jumping Air Gaps

Nice profile of Mordechai Guri, who researches a variety of clever ways to steal data over air-gapped computers. Guri and his fellow Ben-Gurion researchers have shown, for instance, that it's possible to trick a fully offline computer into leaking data to another nearby device via the noise its...