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Category: Computers & Programming
Ouch. More than half a million Activision accounts hacked. Call of Duty players, change passwords and implement 2FA immediately!
What is GPT-2 and how do I install, configure and use it to take over the world?
Twitter hackers charged – 17-year-old Florida teen, 19-year-old UK teen, and 22-year-old Floridian arrested today.
Widespread Twitter attack – here’s how it played out.
It was pretty clear from the start that the hack against Twitter was more than a simple security breach of a handful of user accounts. The smash and grab attack struck celebrities, politicians, and billionaires including Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Kayne West, Binance and companies like Apple,…
If you’re running a BIG-IP device, you’re under attack right now.
New CallStranger exploit takes advantage of UPnP vulnerability in millions of routers, gaming systems, TVs, printers, and other Internet-connected attachable devices.
Researchers just announced the discovery of a UPnP vulnerability that impacts any UPnP device exposed on the Internet. The attack, called CallStranger (CVE-2020-12695), is being used for massive DDoS attacks , to exfiltrate data, and to scan ports from Internet-facing UPnP devices. How the CallStranger exploit works The attack takes advantage of a Callback header…
Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday breaks record with 129 patches including CVEs for 11 critical remote-code execution vulnerabilities.
NSA issues security alert warning of new wave of cybersecurity attacks against email servers conducted by Russia’s GRU.
The NSA says that members of Unit 74455 of the GRU Main Center for Special Technologies (GTsST), a division of the Russian military intelligence service, have been attacking email servers running the Exim mail transfer agent (MTA). Also known as “Sandworm,” this group has been hacking Exim servers since August 2019 by exploiting a critical…
Forget the 26 new USB bugs found in Linux and Windows, it’s the security fuzzer tool that discovered them that’s the news.
A research team from Purdue University has created a tool, USBFuzz, which fuzzes calls to the USB driver stack. Apparently the tool is pretty groundbreaking. The researchers said, “At its core, USBFuzz uses a software-emulated USB device to provide random device data to drivers (when they perform IO operations).” The researchers tested the tool on:…












