“Celebrating Stephen Hawking” with a 419 scam

The recently departed Stephen Hawking is apparently back from the dead, now a target for scammers wanting to extract some quick cash from the unwary in the form of a vaguely surreal 419 scam. The whole thing begins with an email from, er, Stephen Hawking titled "Celebrating Stephen Hawking." Clic...

The digital entropy of death: link rot

Hot on the heels of a grim blog about digital death comes…another blog about digital death. Except in this case, the recently deceased would be the links that tie the web together, otherwise known as link rot. Link rot is a weird thing. Say I blog for Puppy Chow and I write an article about the...

Hacker Adrian Lamo who tipped off FBI about Chelsea Manning dies at 37

By Waqas Adrian Lamo, a hacker who was once in the news This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Hacker Adrian Lamo who tipped off FBI about Chelsea Manning dies at 37...

CVE-2018-6319

In Sophos Tester Tool 3.2.0.7 Beta, the driver accepts a special DeviceIoControl code that doesn't check its argument. This argument is a memory address: if a caller passes a NULL pointer or a random invalid address, the driver will cause a Blue Screen of Death. If a program or malware does this ...

Friday Squid Blogging: Squid that Mate, Die, and Then Sink

The mating and death characteristics of some squid are fascinating. Research paper. EDITED TO ADD 2/5: Additional info and photos. As usual, you can also use this squid post to talk about the security stories in the news that I haven't covered. Read my blog posting guidelines here...

Microsoft’s Jan. 2018 Patch Tuesday Lowdown

Microsoft on Tuesday released 14 security updates, including fixes for the Spectre and Meltdown flaws detailed last week, as well as a zero-day vulnerability in Microsoft Office that is being exploited in the wild. Separately, Adobe pushed a security update to its Flash Player software. Last week...

K7 AntiVirus Denial of Service Vulnerability (CNVD-2018-01153)

K7 AntiVirus is home user friendly virus removal software that protects computers from viruses, Trojans, malware and spyware threats. A denial of service vulnerability exists in the driver file K7FWHlpr.sys in K7 AntiVirus 15.1.0306. The vulnerability arises due to an unverified input value from...

‘Dark Overlord’ Hackers Leak Student Data After Sending Death Threats

By Waqas On October 2nd, an unknown group sent death threats to This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: ‘Dark Overlord’ Hackers Leak Student Data After Sending Death Threats...

App Layering/Unidesk: Boot failure after windows updates cmimcext.sys

Windows updates causes server to fail boot with error message file missing cmimcext.sys. BSOD with0xc000000f stop code. This can apply to a newly imported OS layer or to a new version of an existing OS layer...

Petya expands its scope: A global ransomware threat

Ransomware remains a formidable threat for individual users and businesses alike, particularly as new sample families continue to be discovered by security researchers. What makes ransomware so dangerous is the fact that victims are denied access to their most important files and data - a problem...

CVE-2016-8610: to cause a denial of service“SSL-Death Alert”vulnerability patch analysis-vulnerability warning-the black bar safety net

Recently, one for OpenSSL Red AlertSSL Death Alertvulnerability security patch caught our attention. Other serious security vulnerabilities, this vulnerability also caught our attention, because according to the vulnerability discoverer said, there is this vulnerability of OpenSSL Web servermay b...

Even A Single Computer Can Take Down Big Servers Using BlackNurse Attack

Yes, you only need a single laptop with a decent internet connection, rather a massive botnet, to launch overwhelming denial of service DoS attacks in order to bring down major Internet servers and modern-day firewalls. Researchers at TDC Security Operations Center have discovered a new attack...

OpenSSL remote anonymous denial of service vulnerability (SSL Death Alert)

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Julian Assange is not Dead, but his Internet Connection is Cut by 'State Party'

Don't worry — Julian Assange is alive and kicking! But his Internet connection is dead. Earlier today, Wikileaks tweeted that its co-founder, Julian Assange, had his internet connection intentionally cut by an unidentified "state party." The non-profit organization said it had "activated...

RHEL 7 : org.ovirt.engine-root (RHSA-2016:1967)

An update for org.ovirt.engine-root is now available for RHEV Engine version 4.0. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Moderate. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each...

Windows 10 Blue Screen of Death Gets QR Code

If you are a Microsoft’s Windows user, you may have encountered the infamous Blue Screen of Death BSOD. The Blue Screen of Death generally appears when Windows encounters any critical error due to software or hardware issues, displaying a sad face and no information other than "Your PC ran into a...

Haunted Empire-Wake of Death - Customized SSL, WebView code execution vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Haunted Empire-Wake of Death published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Death Tour- Racing Action Game - Base64 encoded String, Customized SSL vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Death Tour- Racing Action Game published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Police Driver Death Race - Base64 encoded String, Customized SSL, Dangerous filesystem permissions vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Police Driver Death Race published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...

Circle of Death -Drinking game - External URLs, Unsafe deleting vulnerabilities

HackApp vulnerability scanner discovered that application Circle of Death -Drinking game published at the 'play' market has multiple vulnerabilities...