Security News
'Millions' of Dell PCs will grant malware, rogue users admin-level access if asked nicely
Five vulnerabilities lay undetected for almost a dozen years in Windows driver code Dell desktops, laptops, and tablets built since 2009 and running Windows can be exploited to grant rogue users and malware system-administrator-level access to the computers. We're told this...
The Register
5 May 2021 20018 Views
McAfee, Akamai Q1 reports top expectations on security technology growth
McAfee and Akamai both had double-digit growth for security technology, with Akamai focusing on enterprise, and McAfee focusing on personal security products.
ZDnet
5 May 2021 529 Views
You should update your iPhone and iPad to iOS 14.5.1 right away
The update includes security fixes for bugs that are actively being exploited.
ZDnet
4 May 2021 585 Views
China calls out 33 apps for collecting more user data than deemed necessary
Citing complaints from users, the Cyberspace Administration of China lists 33 mobile apps it says breached various regulatory rules, mainly, for collecting personal data deemed not necessary to provide their service.
ZDNet
3 May 2021 16991 Views
Multi-Gov Task Force Plans to Take Down the Ransomware Economy
A coalition of 60 global entities (including the DoJ) has proposed a sweeping plan to hunt down and disrupt ransomware gangs by going after their financial operations.
Threatpost
30 Apr 2021 578 Views
A New PHP Composer Bug Could Enable Widespread Supply-Chain Attacks
The maintainers of Composer, a package manager for PHP, have shipped an update to address a critical vulnerability that could have allowed an attacker to execute arbitrary commands and "backdoor every PHP package," resulting in a supply-chain attack.
Tracked as CVE-2021...
The Hacker News
29 Apr 2021 19121 Views
Microsoft Office SharePoint Targeted With High-Risk Phish, Ransomware Attacks
SharePoint servers are being picked at with high-risk, legitimate-looking, branded phish messages and preyed on by a ransomware gang using an old bug.
Threatpost
29 Apr 2021 647 Views
Cybercriminals Widely Abusing Excel 4.0 Macro to Distribute Malware
Threat actors are increasingly adopting Excel 4. documents as an initial stage vector to distribute malware such as ZLoader and Quakbot, according to new research.
The findings come from an analysis of 160,000 Excel 4. documents between November 2020 and...
The Hacker News
28 Apr 2021 19164 Views
Emotet botnet harvested 4.3 million email addresses. Now the FBI is using Have I Been Pwned to alert the victims
The law enforcement agency is working with the data breach service to alert people that their information may have been harvested by the botnet.
ZDnet
28 Apr 2021 622 Views
Emotet Malware Destroys Itself From All Infected Computers
Emotet, the notorious email-based Windows malware behind several botnet-driven spam campaigns and ransomware attacks, was automatically wiped from infected computers en masse following a European law enforcement operation.
The development comes three months after a coordinated disruption of Emotet as part of "...
The Hacker News
27 Apr 2021 16257 Views
