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Cyber-Security Firm Discovers Firmware Backdoor in Many Gigabyte Motherboards
Cyber-Security firm, Eclypsium has revealed today that they have discovered a hidden security backdoor in the firmware of GIGABYTE motherboards. Security Backdoor in Gigabyte Motherboards As shared by Wired.com, the cyber-security company Eclypsium discovered that many Gigabyte motherboards use a code within the firmware to update quietly in the background.…
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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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Google Warns Windows 7 Chrome Users To Update Immediately!
Google Warns Of “Serious” Windows 7 Bug Despite Microsoft’s best efforts, there is still a remarkably high number of people clinging to Windows 7 rather than making the update to 10. With the operating system having less than a year of official support left, however, users are, sooner or later,…
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Intel Gives Up On Making Some Spectre Microcode Fixes
Intel Gives Up On Spectre Microcode For Older CPUs At the start of the year, Intel got caught unprepared when Spectre and Meltdown were revealed. Since then, Intel has been in firefighting mode from the start. So far, Intel is using software-based mitigations only. For post-Haswell based CPUs, Intel has already released new microcode updates for Spectre. Unfortunately for…
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Intel Shows Full List of CPUs Affected by Spectre & Meltdown
The Intel fix can cause some problems. You don’t mess with security flaws, which is why Intel has been working hard on fixes for Spectre and Meltdown. The company even worked closely with the likes of AMD, ARM Holdings, and some operating system vendors in order to make sure that the…
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Qualcomm Security Flaw Letting Others Read Your Messages
When it comes to privacy we all like the idea that we can keep some secrets to ourselves. If you write it down in your diary you often have to worry about others reading it, so some decide to share their secrets via their mobile phone with friends. Sadly it…
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Google Researcher Publishes Unpatched Windows 8.1 Security Vulnerability
Usually, found security exploits are reported before publicised and so was MSRC-20544 exploit for Windows 8.1. But 90 days after the security researcher from Google had reported the flaw to Microsoft, it still wasn’t patched and he instead chose to release the information to the public in order to pressure Microsoft…
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Mobile Network Vulnerability Means Hackers Could Listen in to Calls
A vulnerability in mobile networks has been discovered that allows hackers to monitor phone calls and track user locations. The weakness, part of the SS7 global mobile network, has been around for a long time, built in as part of a function that keeps calls connected when a phone is on…
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Samsung Smart Phones Have Security Flaw in Security Function
Modern smartphones have advanced security features in one form or another, and it is no different with Samsung’s smartphones. Samsung employs a feature called Find My Phone that allows users to track, lock and even ring their phone in case it is stolen or otherwise lost. What sounds like a…
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BadUSB Security Flaw and What It Means
You might have heard the term BadUSB in the news sometime during the last couple of months, but it’s still not widely known. We first saw the presentation of the security flaw by Karsten Nohl during the Black Hat conference this year. While scary, it didn’t have the big impact…
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Bug in Bash Shell Creates Major Security Hole for Linux Users
A major security bug has been discovered in the GNU Borne Again Shell (Bash) – a command-line shell that’s used across a wide array of Linux and Unix operating systems. The bug leaves systems running these OS’s open to the attack, and is centred around how Bash handles environmental variables that…
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