Security News

Gamers Beware: Zero-Day in Steam Client Affects All Windows Users
2019-08-12 15:07

Valve said it wouldn't fix an elevation-of-privilege bug that allows attackers to run any program on a target machine with high privileges.

Nmap 7.80 released: A mature Npcap Windows packet capturing driver, 11 new NSE scripts
2019-08-12 10:05

Nmap is a free and open source utility for network discovery and security auditing. Many systems and network administrators also find it useful for tasks such as network inventory, managing...

Over 40 Drivers Could Let Hackers Install Persistent Backdoor On Windows PCs
2019-08-11 11:48

If you own a device, or a hardware component, manufactured by ASUS, Toshiba, Intel, NVIDIA, Huawei, or other 15 other vendors listed below, you're probably screwed. A team of security researchers...

How to automatically deny UAC elevation requests in Windows 10
2019-08-09 19:01

To install an app in Windows 10, standard level users are prompted for elevated credentials. With a few tweaks, you can change that behavior to deny such requests.

Deja-wooo-oooh! Intel chips running Windows potentially vulnerable to scary Spectre variant
2019-08-06 23:01

SWAPGS can be abused to siphon sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution...

Deja-woooo: Intel, AMD chips running Windows potentially vulnerable to scary Spectre variant
2019-08-06 23:01

SWAPGS attack can leak sensitive secrets from kernel memory, patches already available Spectre – a family of data-leaking side-channel vulnerabilities arising from speculative execution that was...

NVIDIA patches high-severity bugs in Windows GPUs and SHIELD
2019-08-06 12:25

NVIDIA has patched five bugs in its Windows GPU display driver, three of which could allow an attacker to execute code on the system.

It's 2019, and one third of businesses still have active Windows XP deployments
2019-07-30 12:00

As end of support for the still-popular Windows 7 draws near, risks of unpatched operating systems are likely to be a significant security concern in the near future.

Linux Botnet Adding BlueKeep-Flawed Windows RDP Servers to Its Target List
2019-07-25 09:48

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a new variant of WatchBog, a Linux-based cryptocurrency mining malware botnet, which now also includes a module to scan the Internet for Windows RDP...