Intel’s Spectre variant 4 patch impacts CPU performance
Intel recently announced their fix for Spectre variant 4 attack that would significantly decrease CPU performance. While working on this fix, Intel anticipated some...
Mozilla developers have built BugBug which uses machine learning to triage Firefox bugs
Yesterday the team at Mozilla announced that the company is receiving hundreds of bug reports and feature requests from Firefox users on a daily...
EU to sponsor bug bounty programs for 14 open source projects from January 2019
Julia Reda, EU member of the parliament, announced, last week, that EU will be funding the internet bug bounty programs for 14 out of...
Researchers prove that Intel SGX and TSX can hide malware from antivirus software
Researchers Michael Schwarz, Samuel Weiser, and Daniel Gruss from Graz University of Technology have published a research paper that demonstrates how the Intel SGX...
Chinese hackers use snail mails to send malware on board government PCs
Recently, Cisco and Huawei had faced a major breach in their routers where attackers used two different bypass methods. Hackers managed to compromise Cisco...
Fortnite just fixed a bug that let attackers to fully access user accounts, impersonate...
Yesterday, Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, an online video game acknowledged the existence of a bug in the game (Fortnite). This bug could...
LastPass patched a security vulnerability from the extensions generated on pop-up windows
Last week, the team behind LastPass, a password manager website, released an update to patch a security vulnerability that exposes credentials entered by the...
Google open sources ClusterFuzz, a scalable fuzzing tool
Google made its scalable fuzzing tool, called ClusterFuzz available as open source, yesterday. ClusterFuzz is used by Google for fuzzing the Chrome Browser, a...
At DefCon 27, DARPA’s $10 million voting system could not be hacked by Voting...
At the DefCon security conference in Las Vegas, for the last two years, hackers have come to the Voting Village every year to scrutinize...
Cisco reports critical vulnerabilities in Nexus 9000 data center switches, PI software, and EPN...
Earlier this month, Cisco announced a critical vulnerability in its Nexus 9000 Series Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Mode Switch Software. This vulnerability allows an...
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