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Tag Archives: Vulnerability
Open Sesame! Zipato’s smart hub hacked to open front doors
The Zipato controller has three critical security flaws which could be used together by hackers to open your home’s doors for you, according to researchers.
Patch Android! July 2019 update fixes 9 critical flaws
Depending on when users receive it, this week’s Android’s July patch update will fix 33 security vulnerabilities, including 9 marked critical, and 24 marked high.
Dating app Jack’d fined $240K for leaving private photos up for a year
The company behind the gay dating app left users’ private photos online for a year in spite of knowing about the security bugs.
Medtronic rushes to replace insulin pumps after flaws found
Medtronic is immediately recalling of all MiniMed 508 & Paradigm insulin pumps after researchers uncovered serious security flaws.
RDP BlueKeep exploit shows why you really, really need to patch
A video of the exploit shows CVE-2019-0708 being exploited remotely, without authentication.
Social engineering forum hacked, user data dumped on rival site
Social Engineered, dedicated to the “Art of Human Hacking,” was gutted, with 55,121 users’ details leaked on the same day as the hack.
VLC media player gets biggest security update ever
Maintainers of the world’s most popular open source media player, VLC, has issued the biggest single set of security fixes in the program’s history.
Serious Security: Rambleed attacks blunted – the OpenSSH way
Here’s a way to keep secrets safe in memory, even in a world of hardware-level leakage due to tricks like Rambleed, Spectre and more.
Presidential text alerts are open to spoofing attacks, warn researchers
Researchers have shown that it’s technically possible for hackers to target the US Presidential text Alerts system to send fake messages.