A zero-day vulnerability in iCloud and iTunes on Windows PCs allowed hackers to install ransomware undetected. The vulnerability had been exploited by the hackers to run BitPaymer, which is a ransomware software. These kinds of softwares can encrypt a hard drive with a passcode that only the attacker knows, allowing them to then demand a […]
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Microsoft has released an emergency fix for Windows 10, following the discovery of a serious flaw in Internet Explorer. The flaw is a remote code vulnerability—one of the most dangerous types of security flaws, as it opens the way for a hacker to remotely take control of an affected system. At the root of the
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By AppleInsider Staff Wednesday, September 11, 2019, 06:45 pm PT (09:45 pm ET) Apple on Wednesday ceased code signing of iOS 12.4, an incremental update that accidentally unpatched a vulnerability which hackers quickly leveraged to create a publicly available jailbreak. Typical of Apple’s operating system release cycle, the halt to code signing for iOS
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August brought loads of drama to the Windows and Office patching scene. Microsoft’s first round of patches killed Visual Basic, Visual Basic for Applications and VBScript in certain situations — on all versions of Windows. Fixes for the bugs dribbled out three, four, six and 17 days after the original infection. Those Microsoft-introduced bugs were all
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What happens when Microsoft releases eight – count ‘em, eight – concurrent beta test versions of Win10 version 1909 without fixing bugs introduced into 1903 on Patch Tuesday? Pan. De. Moaaan. Ium. The VB/VBA/VBScript debacle No doubt, you recall the first wave of pain inflicted by the August 2019 patching regimen. Microsoft somehow managed to
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A top AMP plugin for WordPress, AMP for WP, has released a patch for a critical security vulnerability. AMP for WP, which currently has 100,000+ downloads, was pulled from the official WordPress.org plugins section last month. It has since reappeared as of last week. The developer says the reason it was pulled was due to
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