Security News

New Firmware Flaws Resurrect Cold Boot Attacks
2018-09-13 12:33

Researchers discovered that the firmware running on nearly all modern computers is vulnerable to cold boot attacks that can allow hackers to recover highly sensitive data from the device’s memory....

New Cold Boot Attack Unlocks Disk Encryption On Nearly All Modern PCs
2018-09-13 12:33

Security researchers have revealed a new attack to steal passwords, encryption keys and other sensitive information stored on most modern computers, even those with full disk encryption. The...

Apple Finally Boots Sneaky Adware Doctor App from Mac App Store
2018-09-10 16:47

Hours after researchers publicly disclosed an app that was caught stealing and uploading browser history data, Apple removed it from the Mac App Store.

Twitter boots 143K bad apps, throttles developer access to API
2018-07-26 10:04

Devs now have to register and will be capped at 10 apps, and those apps are now on a diet: no more endless gorging on spam/bot-pestering/etc.

Intel Xeon workhorses boot evil maids out of the hotel: USB-based spying thwarted by fix
2018-07-25 06:32

The story behind the quietly patched CVE-2018-3652 Ex-Intel security dragons have breathed fresh fire into the old maxim: if someone has physical access to your machine, you're pwned.…

Apple Patches KRACK Flaws in Boot Camp
2018-07-09 10:56

Apple has released an update for its Boot Camp utility to address vulnerabilities related to the wireless Key Reinstallation Attacks (KRACK) that were disclosed late last year. read more

OnePlus 6 Flaw Allows to Boot Any Image Even With Locked Bootloader
2018-06-11 08:03

Have you recently bought a OnePlus 6? Don’t your phone unattended. A serious vulnerability has been discovered in the OnePlus 6 bootloader that makes it possible for someone to boot arbitrary or...

Apple boots out apps that abuse location data collection
2018-05-11 11:27

GDPR is coming and Apple's spring cleaning the App Store

Lenovo Patches Secure Boot Vulnerability in Servers
2018-05-08 20:05

Lenovo has released patches for a High severity vulnerability impacting the Secure Boot function on some System x servers. read more