Hackers are crawling all over the US Department of Defense’s websites – and DoD officials are quite happy about the whole thing.
Tag Archives: Security threats
Google launches FuzzBench service to benchmark fuzzing tools
Google has announced FuzzBench, a free service “for painlessly evaluating fuzzers in a reproducible way.”
Zynga faces class action suit over massive Words With Friends hack
It’s charging subpar password security and lousy user notification: Zynga has yet to notify users to warn them of the breach, the suit says.
NCSC: Secure your webcams now
We don’t want to see what you do behind closed doors, but lots of hackers would be happy to pull up a chair to view that video stream.
Google fixes MediaTek bug in Android March patches
There are patches for over 70 bugs, and they finally fixed a months-old exploit for MediaTek chipsets, said to affect millions of devices.
Tech support scammers hacked back by vigilante
A cybercrime vigilante was so incensed by tech support scammers, he reverse-hacked the Indian call centre to spy on his would-be attackers.
GoodRx stops sharing personal medical data with Google, Facebook
The mobile app saves people money but was letting 20 companies know who’s taking antipsychotics, erectile dysfunction and HIV meds, and more.
Nvidia patches severe flaws affecting GeForce, Quadro NVS and Tesla
In all, the update covers five Windows and Linux desktop CVE vulnerabilities, including one rated as critical.
XSS plugin vulnerabilities plague WordPress users
Thousands of active WordPress plugins have been hit with a swathe of XSS vulnerabilities that could give attackers complete control of the site.
Siri and Google Assistant hacked in new ultrasonic attack
Researchers have demonstrated how voice assistants can be secretly activated without ever physically touching the device.
