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  • New Attack Lets Android Apps Capture Loudspeaker Data Without Any Permission
  • Google Adds New Option to 'Auto-Delete' Your Location History and Activity Data
  • Warning — Unpatched Critical 'Wormable' Windows SMBv3 Flaw Disclosed
  • Poor Rowhammer Fixes On DDR4 DRAM Chips Re-Enable Bit Flipping Attacks
  • Adobe Releases Patches for 'Likely Exploitable' Critical Vulnerabilities
  • Download: The 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey Results

Warning — Unpatched Critical 'Wormable' Windows SMBv3 Flaw Disclosed

Published: 2020-03-11 12:27:42

Popularity: 3303

Author: noreply@blogger.com (Ravie Lakshmanan)

Keywords:

  • cyber security
  • remote code execution
  • smb vulnerability
  • smb worm
  • windows security
  • windows updates
  • wormable exploit

    • Shortly after releasing its monthly batch of security updates, Microsoft late yesterday separately issued an advisory warning billions of its Windows users of a new critical, unpatched, and wormable vulnerability affecting Server Message Block 3.0 (SMBv3) network communication protocol. It appears Microsoft originally planned to fix the flaw as part of its March 2020 Patch Tuesday update only,

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    Poor Rowhammer Fixes On DDR4 DRAM Chips Re-Enable Bit Flipping Attacks

    Published: 2020-03-10 21:35:34

    Popularity: 1809

    Author: noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)

    Keywords:

  • cyber security
  • DRAM Chip
  • DRAM RowHammer Vulnerability
  • DRAM Vulnerability
  • RAM hacking
  • RowHammer Attack
  • Vulnerability

    • Remember rowhammer vulnerability? A critical issue affecting modern DRAM (dynamic random access memory) chips that could allow attackers to obtain higher kernel privileges on a targeted system by repeatedly accessing memory cells and induce bit flips. To mitigate Rowhammer vulnerability on the latest DDR4 DRAM, many memory chip manufacturers added some defenses under the umbrella term Target

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    Download: The 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey Results

    Published: 2019-12-10 16:22:30

    Popularity: 442

    Author: noreply@blogger.com (The Hacker News)

    Keywords:

  • cyber security
  • Cyber Security Certifications
  • cybersecurity
  • cybersecurity jobs
  • cybersecurity salary
  • hacking jobs

    • The 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey was an online survey published in The Hacker News and created to provide insight into the details related to cybersecurity compensation. There were over 1,500 security professionals who completed the survey. Today you can access the aggregated and analyzed 2020 Cybersecurity Salary Survey Results and gain insight to the main ranges and factors of current

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    Adobe Releases Patches for 'Likely Exploitable' Critical Vulnerabilities

    Published: 2019-12-10 16:58:49

    Popularity: 810

    Author: noreply@blogger.com (Unknown)

    Keywords:

  • Adobe
  • adobe software update
  • cyber security
  • download software update
  • patch Tuesday
  • Security patch
  • software update

    • The last Patch Tuesday of 2019 is finally here. Adobe today released updates for four of its widely used software—including Adobe Acrobat and Reader, Photoshop CC, ColdFusion, and Brackets—to patch a total of 25 new security vulnerabilities. Seventeen of these flaws have been rated as critical in severity, with most of them carrying high priority patches, indicating that the vulnerabilities

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    New Attack Lets Android Apps Capture Loudspeaker Data Without Any Permission

    Published: 2019-07-17 10:52:05

    Popularity: 7377

    Author: noreply@blogger.com (Swati Khandelwal)

    Keywords:

  • Android
  • android apps
  • cyber security
  • Google
  • side channel attack
  • Smart Speaker
  • smartphone security

    • Earlier this month, The Hacker News covered a story on research revealing how over 1300 Android apps are collecting sensitive data even when users have explicitly denied the required permissions. The research was primarily focused on how app developers abuse multiple ways around to collect location data, phone identifiers, and MAC addresses of their users by exploiting both covert and side

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    Google Adds New Option to 'Auto-Delete' Your Location History and Activity Data

    Published: 2019-05-02 07:45:38

    Popularity: 3748

    Author: noreply@blogger.com (Swati Khandelwal)

    Keywords:

  • cellphone location tracking
  • cyber security
  • geolocation
  • Google
  • Google Location History
  • GPS location tracking
  • how to trace location
  • location history
  • Online security
  • Privacy

    • Google is giving you more control over how long you want the tech company to hold on to your location history and web activity data. Google has introduced a new, easier, privacy-focused auto-delete feature for your Google account that will allow you to automatically delete your Location History and Web and App Activity data after a set period of time. Google's Location History feature, if

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