Security News > 2017 > September

Hacking Voice Assistant Systems with Inaudible Voice Commands
2017-09-13 11:03

Turns out that all the major voice assistants -- Siri, Google Now, Samsung S Voice, Huawei HiVoice, Cortana and Alexa -- listen at audio frequencies the human ear can't hear. Hackers can hijack...

SAP Resolves 16 Vulnerabilities with September 2017 Patches
2017-09-13 11:01

SAP on Tuesday released 16 security notes as part of its SAP Security Patch Day, to which it also added 1 out-of-band release and 6 updates to previously released Security Notes, for a total of 23...

Equifax's Latest Data Breach: Argentina
2017-09-13 10:32

Unsecure Customer Service Portal Exposes National ID NumbersEquifax has a new problem on its hands: Argentina. Investigators with security consultancy Hold Security discovered that Equifax's...

U.S. Energy Department Invests $20 Million in Cybersecurity
2017-09-13 10:12

The United States Department of Energy announced on Tuesday its intention to invest up to $50 million in the research and development of tools and technologies that would make the country’s energy...

Microsoft Patches Zero-Day, Many Other Flaws
2017-09-13 08:38

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for September 2017 address roughly 80 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day exploited by threat actors to deliver spyware and several flaws that have been...

Zerodium Offers $1 Million for Tor Browser 0-Days That It will Resell to Governments
2017-09-13 07:03

It seems like Tor Browser zero-day exploits are in high demand right now—so much so that someone is ready to pay ONE MILLION dollars. Zerodium—a company that specialises in acquiring and reselling...

Immediately Patch Windows 0-Day Flaw That's Being Used to Spread Spyware
2017-09-13 04:09

Get ready to install a fairly large batch of security patches onto your Windows computers. As part of its September Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released a large batch of security updates to patch...

Canadian Class Action Suit Launched Against Equifax Over Data Breach
2017-09-13 02:03

A class action lawsuit by Canadian consumers whose data was stolen in a massive hack of US credit bureau Equifax was launched Tuesday, seeking damages of Can $550 billion ($450 billion US). read more

Linux Subsystem on Windows 10 Allows Malware to Become Fully Undetectable
2017-09-13 01:52

Microsoft has been expressing its love for Linux for almost three years now, and this love costs Microsoft an arm and a leg. Last year, Microsoft surprised everyone by announcing the arrival of...

Adobe Patches Two Critical RCE Vulnerabilities in Flash Player
2017-09-12 22:28

Adobe may kill Flash Player by the end of 2020, but until then, the company would not stop providing security updates to the buggy software. As part of its monthly security updates, Adobe has...