SolarWinds Hackers Got Emails of Former Acting Illegal Head of DHS Chad Wolf, former temporary acting head of DHS, that a federal court said was illegally appointed, has another item for his resume. When the Russians hacked DHS by way of SolarWinds, they obtained Wolf’s emails. Try to comprehend, for a moment, the intelligence value […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]9 Years of AMD Processors Vulnerable to 2 New Side-Channel Attacks AMD processors from as early as 2011 to 2019 carry previously undisclosed vulnerabilities that open them to two new different side-channel attacks, according to a freshly published research. Known as “Take A Way,” the new potential attack vectors leverage the L1 data (L1D) cache […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Hamas Creates Fake Missile Warning App to Hack Israelis The Times of Israel is reporting that Hamas has created and was distributing a fake Code Red rocket warning app. The app, according to Clearsky Cyber Security, takes over the phone and is impossible to remove, even if the app is deleted. Once infected, the app […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Details Emerge on TicketFly Hack More details are coming out about the TicketFly attack. First thing is that the web site was based on WordPress. While WordPress is a very popular site for individuals and small businesses; using it for something as complex as a concert ticketing site is likely a mistake. Hackers were able […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]8 new Spectre-Class Vulnerabilities Researchers have reportedly found *8* new Spectre-class vulnerabilties. Intel has classified 4 of them high risk and 4 of them medium risk, although they are not releasing any details on them – yet. The entire set is being referred to as Spectre Next Generation or Spectre-NG. At least one of them […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Intel will NOT be patching all of its flawed chips After saying, for months, that it would release firmware updates to all chipsets produced in the last 5 years, Intel is now backtracking saying that it won’t produce patches for the Bloomfield line, Clarksfield, Gulftown, Harpertown, Jasper Forest, Penryn, SoFIA 3GR, the Wolfdale line, and the […]
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