A bug in Facebook’s SDK has caused a large number of iOS apps to begin crashing including Spotify, Tinder, Pinterest, and any other app that makes use of the Facebook API like PUBG and yes, even Mario Kart.
If you or your ISP are running BIG-IP devices, they are almost certainly under active attack right now. On Wednesday, F5 Networks issued patches for a remote code execution vulnerability in BIG-IP devices. Within hours, security researchers reported targeted attacks against BIG-IP devices.
In concept, a mobile phone jammer is pretty simple. It transmits signals on the same frequency as a cell phone which disrupts the radiowaves. I’ve had the circuit below in my collection of electronics schematics for quite some time.
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 rolled out patches for a whopping 129 vulnerabilities in June’s Patch Tuesday. It marked the 4th month in a row that MS released patches for more than 110 CVEs. MS has already patched 616 CVEs – and it’s only June!
The United States typically fell within the top 10, albeit not the top position as you’d expect from the country that invented the damn thing. But that changed with the latest analysis. The US now sits in the 11th position with 25% of US households having access to speeds of up to 25 Mbps or…
Word spread on social media of a particular photograph that is causing some phones to go into a continuous reboot sequence when the photo is set as the screensaver. It’s been tested and yeah, it does trigger the reboot. In some instances, you cannot escape out of the sequence effectively bricking the phone and requiring…
Facebook’s R&D department rolled out their third app this week and this one shows promise – if they can pry off Twitter’s death grip over the second screen market. The new app is called Venue and it’s built to engage fans during live events. It works much like Twitter and its hashtags fans use to…
Have no doubt about it. America’s skirmish with China has more to do with fear than anger. America is about to lose their #1 position on the world’s stage and they know it. And China is posed to step into the pole position. What will it take to overtake the US? Technological advances. And what’s…
Websites are throwing some good shade at Mark Zuckerberg this week after he proclaimed Facebook should not be the “arbiter of truth”. The statement came after Twitter flagged President Trump’s tweets as “deceptive”. In response to Facebook’s announcement, satire websites began place clearly fictional posts on the social network platform as a test of Facebook’s…
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