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Implant leaked by Shadow Brokers targets Juniper’s NetScreen firewalls
Juniper Networks has become the latest company to acknowledge that one of the implants leaked by the Shadow Brokers targets some of their products. Cisco and Fortinet did the …

Epic Games forums hacked again, over 800,000 users affected
Some of the online forums maintained by Epic Games, the video game development company behing the Unreal Engine technology and games based on it, have been hacked and their …

Android 7.0 Nougat is out, with new security features
Google has released Android 7.0 Nougat, and the newest version of the popular mobile OS is already being rolled out to Google’s existing Nexus devices. “Today, and …

Backdoor uses TeamViewer to spy on victims
A backdoor Trojan with spying capabilities that has been previously directed against European and Russian users is now being lobbed at US users, Dr. Web researchers have …

Snowden documents definitely link Shadow Brokers’ leak to the NSA
Last week, Cisco and Fortinet confirmed that the exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers and aimed at compromising their networking devices work as intended, but the origin of …

Open sourced: Cyber reasoning system that won third place in DARPA’s Cyber Grand Challenge
Earlier this month, the DARPA-backed Cyber Grand Challenge (CGC) has shown that a future in which computer systems will (wholly or partially) replace bug hunters and patchers …

18-year-old random number generator flaw fixed in Libgcrypt, GnuPG
Researchers have discovered a “critical security problem” that affects all versions of the Libgcrypt cryptographic library and, therefore, all versions of the …

Researchers pinpoint best times for delivering security messages
When is the best time to deliver a security message? A group of researchers from Brigham Young University has been tracking users’ neural activity while they are using a …

Compromising Linux virtual machines via FFS Rowhammer attack
A group of Dutch researchers have demonstrated a variant of the Rowhammer attack that can be used to successfully compromise Linux virtual machines on cloud servers. The Flip …

Windows users will no longer be able to apply individual patches
Since Microsoft began pushing Windows 10 on consumers and enterprise users, it has consistently worked towards minimizing the choices they can make about the installation. One …

Cisco, Fortinet validate exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers
Cisco and Fortinet have released security advisories confirming that some of the exploits leaked by the Shadow Brokers work as intended. The entity released the batch as proof …

Spammers modify sites’ core WordPress files for long-lasting compromise
In their quest to compromise WordPress installations and prevent site owners from discovering it and cleaning up the website, blackhat SEO spammers have turned to modifying …
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