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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…

2 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

3 years ago

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…

4 years ago

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…

5 years ago

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…

11 years ago

$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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago

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.…

11 years ago

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…

11 years ago