vulnerability
Researchers eavesdrop on DNA synthesizer to steal genetic blueprint
Researchers from the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have uncovered the possibility of an acoustic side-channel attack …
PDF viewers, online validation services vulnerable to digital signature spoofing attacks
Academics from Ruhr University Bochum have proven that the majority of popular PDF viewer apps and online digital signature validation services can be tricked into validating …
Cisco fixes risky flaws in HyperFlex and Prime infrastructure
Cisco has released another batch of fixes for many of its products, including HyperFlex, Prime infrastructure, WebEx, and Firepower devices. Fixed HyperFlex bugs Five of the …
Highly critical Drupal RCE flaw could lead to new Drupalgeddon, patch now!
A new Drupalgeddon might be brewing: a highly critical vulnerability affecting all versions of the popular content management framework could allow hackers to take over …
500 million WinRAR users open to compromise via a 19-year-old flaw
A vulnerability affecting all versions of WinRAR, the popular file archiver utility for Windows, could be exploited by attackers to deliver malware via specially crafted ACE …
Rockwell Automation industrial energy meter vulnerable to public exploits
A low-skilled, remote attacker could use publicly available exploits to gain access to and mess with a power monitor by Rockwell Automation that is used by energy companies …
Flawed password managers allow malware to steal passwords from computer memory
The most widely used password managers sport fundamental vulnerabilities that could allow malware to steal the master password or other passwords stored by the software …
Snapd flaw gives attackers root access on Linux systems
A vulnerability affecting Snapd – a package installed by default in Ubuntu and used by other Linux distributions such as Debian, OpenSUSE, Arch Linux, Fedora and Solus …
RunC container escape flaw enables root access to host system
A serious vulnerability in runC, a widely used CLI tool for spawning and running containers, could be exploited to compromise the runC host binary from inside a privileged …
Malicious macros can trigger RCE in LibreOffice, OpenOffice
Achieving remote code execution on systems running LibreOffice or Apache OpenOffice might be as easy as tricking users into opening a malicious ODT (OpenDocument) file and …
The problem with vulnerable IoT companion apps
There’s no shortage of exploitable security holes in widely used Internet of Things devices, so it shouldn’t come as a surprise that the communication between many …
Critical FaceTime bug turns iPhones, Macs into eavesdropping tools
A shocking and easily exploitable FaceTime bug allows people to listen in on other users of Apple devices by simply calling them through the service. The bug apparently …