Security

Can a Windows wallpaper really hijack your Microsoft account password?

This month security researcher bohops demonstrated a credential harvesting trick that uses Windows theme files. Setting a Windows wallpaper location to a…

4 years ago

A malware alert left hundreds of Bank of America customers panicking

Hundreds of Bank of America customers had trouble accessing their bank accounts yesterday due to Avast and AVG antivirus engines…

4 years ago

Apple SSH privacy bug “exploited at large” remains unpatched after 2 years

A privacy bug lurking around in Apple Mac OS X since at least 2018 continues to remain unpatched and exploited…

4 years ago

Hacker Noon fixes leaky drafts: what about your blog?

Update Aug-13-2020: Hacker Noon has fixed the issue and a reply via a tweet provided more information: "URL removal request…

4 years ago

Hacker Noon leaks drafts: what about your blog?

Does your CMS leak drafts? I don't know about you but I'd be pretty concerned if I found out an…

4 years ago

Smart lock bug could let hackers locate you and unlock your door, remotely

A new report published this week sheds light on a vulnerability in smart lock models that hackers could exploit to…

4 years ago

What the 2020 hacks have taught the crypto industry?

Rushing an SDK integration cost a crypto business $2 million! In February 2020, we learned of IOTA's Trinity wallet hack which cost…

4 years ago

That ‘BCC’ email field can save you from data leaks

This month multiple stories have emerged of companies exposing their member email addresses to each other. This typically happens due…

4 years ago

Google patches multiple Chrome vulnerabilities, including RCE.

The stable release 84.0.4147.105 of Chrome web browser which is out for Windows and Mac fixes a number of vulnerabilities…

4 years ago

20,000 GitHub projects at risk from Node.js ‘standard-version’ library vulnerability

More than 20,000 GitHub projects rely on the Node.js standard-version utility to implement semantic versioning (semver) and for generating CHANGELOG…

4 years ago

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