Category: security
Intel and AMD CPUs alike could be affected by this alarming new cyberattack
Academic researchers from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam have discovered a new Spectre-based flaw in several major upcoming CPU chips, but the hardware manufacturers are seemingly unfazed by the findings. As reported by BleepingComputer researchers from the Systems and Network Security Group (VUSec Group) found a side-channel attack and dubbed it…
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Top mobile password managers could be exposing user details
Some of the most popular mobile password managers on Android have a serious security flaw that could cause the worst problem possible for users – leaking their credentials. Known as “Autospill,” the vulnerability involves a bug in the autofill function on Android devices. It was discovered by researchers at the…
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Green Card Lottery applicants see private data leaked online
Hundreds of thousands of people applying for the US Green Card Lottery have had their personally identifiable data (PII) exposed on the internet, due to sloppy data protection practices by a third party. This is according to a report from researchers at Cybernews, who found the data and notified the…
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Millions of patient scans and health records leaked online
Personally identifiable information (PII), as well as plenty of medical records belonging to millions of patients across the world have been found exposed on the internet and available to anyone who knows where to look. These are the findings of Aplite, which claimed to have found more than 3,800 accessible…
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This crafty iPhone attack makes you think your phone is safe…until it’s hacked
Lockdown Mode, an iPhone feature introduced with iOS 16, is not an antivirus, does not detect malware, and cannot prevent malware from operating. Therefore, hackers can create a fake Lockdown Mode and run malware operating in the background unabated, a report from Jamf Threat Labs has noted. “Apple‘s Lockdown mode…
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Your work laptop can keep using Windows 10 until 2028 – but it’ll cost you
Microsoft has confirmed that Windows 10 will live on beyond its end of support (EOS) date of October 14, 2025, but users will have to pay up to keep using the platform safely. Although Windows 10 22H2 has already been confirmed to be the final version of the operating system,…
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