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Intel Has a New Major CPU Security Flaw (But It Probably Doesn’t Affect You!)
Intel doesn’t have a particularly good history in recent years when it comes to security flaws being discovered within their processor releases. Admittedly, AMD has certainly had a few problems here and there too, but I think it would be both fair and accurate to say that Intel has been…
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Major Windows Security Flaw Discovered Within 7-ZIP Compression Software
I daresay that many of you reading this probably have some kind of compression software installed on your PC or laptop. It’s a pretty common kind of program and is mostly utilised as a means of decompressing files that have been downloaded from the internet (the purpose of the compression…
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Windows 10 PrintNightmare Continues to Plague Microsoft… And Users!
One of the more consistent issues for the Windows 10 operating system over the last year has been updates that have created problems with printers. Since the beginning of the year, however, and the discovery of the PrintNightmare security flaw, Microsoft has had an incredibly tough time in solving the…
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Valve Pays Researcher $7,500 For Finding Unlimited Steam Wallet Bug
As you may be aware, many online companies offer bug bounty programs to people known as white hat hackers. The basic premise of this is that although they do their own in-house security testing (or at least they should), it’s often far more cost-effective and successful to simply open to…
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Windows Defender Had a Huge 12-Year-Old Security Exploit
First introduced with the launch of Windows 7, Defender has largely proven to be a pretty decent bit of integrated virus protection for all versions of the operating system released since. Is it perfect? No. However, for most users presuming you don’t download or click anything mildly dubious, it does…
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HP Support Assistant Flaws May Expose PCs to Hackers
I must admit that I’m not personally a fan of ‘mainstream’ PC/laptop suppliers. Not necessarily because I have a problem with their quality, but because they often come packed with at least half-a-dozen pre-installed applications that I’d politely describe as bloatware. Of these, HP users will undoubtedly be aware of…
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Microsoft Confirm Windows XP Is Also Affected By Newly Discovered Office Zero-Day Flaw
Microsoft recently released an official statement confirming that Windows XP is also vulnerable to a newly discovered Zero-Day flaw. The security flaw affects users of Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. The programs that initiate this security flaw are Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007…
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$100K Microsoft Bug Bounty Winner Says He Has Lost Most Of His Reward
Just two days ago we brought you the news that a security researched bagged a healthy $100,000 “bug bounty” from Microsoft for discovering a major class of security vulnerability in its Windows 8.1 operating system. Now the British security researcher James Forshaw has been speaking to the press about his…
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Microsoft Pays $100,000 Bounty For Windows 8.1 Exploit Discovery
Microsoft pledged to offer researchers and software developers up to $100,000 if they were able to find various exploits in its new Windows 8.1 operating system. Engadget reports that Microsoft has duly delivered and has just forked out a hefty $100,000 to a software technology specialist for discovering a major…
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German Security Provider Says 750 PayPal Phishing Sites Are Created Daily
PayPal phishing schemes drive me mad. I probably get about 5-10 emails everyday across my various work and personal email accounts from phishing sites trying to trick me into handing over PayPal details. A German email security provider has shed light on why this is such a frequent occurrence. Apparently…
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Flaws In UEFI Can Be Abused To Install UEFI Bootkit
According to a PC World report, via Softpedia, three researchers demonstrated a UEFI vulnerability at the 2013 Black Hat conference. Andrew Furtak, Oleksandr Bazhaniuk and Yuriy Bulygin demonstrated two attack methods that can be used to bypass the secure boot to install a UEFI bootkit. One of the attack techniques relies…
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NSA May Have Backdoors Built Into Intel And AMD Processors
In an interesting story covered by the Australian Financial Review it is revealed that experts think the NSA has hardware level backdoors built into Intel and AMD processors. Steve Blank, recognised as one of Silicon Valleys leading experts, says that he would be extremely surprised if the American NSA does not…
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Reports Suggest MSI.com Has Been Hacked And Injected With Malware Code
According to unconfirmed reports MSI.com has recently been hacked and can distribute Malware code. The report states that cyber-criminals have hacked MSI.com and have altered it to distribute malware that is hosted by Kristians1(dot)net and some other shady websites. The writer of the report, Conrad Longmore of Dynamoo’s Blog, reports…
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Microsoft Internet Explorer 11 Bug Bounty Claimed By Google Employee!
Microsoft and other big browser companies often give out “bug bounties” for people who can discover exploits in their software. Microsoft offered up a rather large bug bounty for Internet Explorer 11 and is offering up to $11,000 for every security flaw people can find in the browser. Katie Moussouris,…
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A US Department “Handles” Malware Infection By Destroying The Infected Equipment
You’d think the American government departments, with all their funding and extra-legal powers, would know how to effectively deal with a malware infection. Well apparently not. According to a report by the US Department of Commerce’s inspector general the Economic Department administration “dealt” with a malware infection by destroying the…
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