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All Yahoo Accounts Compromised in the 2013 Yahoo Data Breach

October 10, 2017 By aatech

Recently Oath, owner of Yahoo, and a subsidiary of Verizon revealed that the biggest known cyber data breach ever recorded in the history of humankind was larger than Yahoo initially announced. As you may remember back in 2013 Yahoo suffered a cyber-attack – approximately one billion accounts were affected. Even though that it took Yahoo […]

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Firefox 57 to Get New XSS Protections

October 9, 2017 By aatech

Mozilla this week announced plans to boost the Cross-Site-Scripting (XSS) protections in Firefox by treating data URLs as unique origin. The use of a data URL scheme allows web developers to inline small files directly into HTML or CSS documents, which also results in faster page load times. Because of this mechanism, the browser doesn’t […]

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Millions of Up-to-Date Apple Macs Remain Vulnerable to EFI Firmware Hacks

October 6, 2017 By aatech

“Always keep your operating system and software up-to-date.“ This is one of the most popular and critical advice that every security expert strongly suggests you to follow to prevent yourself from major cyber attacks.However, even if you attempt to install every damn software update that lands to your system, there is a good chance of […]

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Five Critical Android Bugs Get Patched in October Update

October 5, 2017 By aatech

Four critical vulnerabilities were reported by Google Monday as part of its October Android Security Bulletin. In all, 14 patches were issued for corresponding vulnerabilities, ranging from critical to high. The relative low bug count for the month of October is due to the fact this month Google announced it would handle security bulletins differently. […]

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Netgear Patches Over 50 Flaws in Routers, Switches, NAS Devices

October 4, 2017 By aatech

Netgear published more than 50 security advisories in the past two weeks to inform customers about the availability of patches for vulnerabilities affecting many of the company’s routers, switches, network-attached storage (NAS) devices, and wireless access points. There are a total of 14 advisories describing vulnerabilities in various ReadyNAS devices, including command injections, security misconfigurations, […]

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Remote Wi-Fi Attack Backdoors iPhone 7

October 3, 2017 By aatech

Google on Tuesday disclosed details and a proof-of-concept exploit for a Wi-Fi firmware vulnerability in Broadcom chipsets patched this week in iOS 11. The attack enables code execution and persistent presence on a compromised device. “The exploit gains code execution on the Wi-Fi firmware on the iPhone 7,” said Google Project Zero researcher Gal Beniamini, […]

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BlueBorne Bluetooth hack could affect millions of smartphones

October 2, 2017 By aatech

Bluetooth is an important smartphone technology, allowing us to transfer files, or to listen to music, wirelessly. It’s so useful that many people leave it switched on all the time. But researchers have discovered a vulnerability in the technology that allows hackers to take control of a victim’s phone remotely. Known as “BlueBorne”, the technique […]

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WordPress 4.8.2 is out, update your website now

September 29, 2017 By aatech

WordPress 4.8.2 is out, featuring nine security fixes website owners will want to apply, well, now. All told, there have been six updates this year featuring security fixes, including January’s silent patch for a nasty zero day, this being the first since May’s v4.7.5. The maintenance side of the update features six other software updates […]

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Android App Siphons Data on 200 Million Users

September 28, 2017 By aatech

A popular Android keyboard application with over 200 million downloads was found gathering user information sending the data a remote server, Adguard reveals. The offending application, GO Keyboard, has two versions available in Google Play, namely GO Keyboard – Emoji keyboard, Swipe input, GIFs and GO Keyboard – Emoticon keyboard, Free Theme, GIF, each with […]

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Samba Update Patches Two SMB-Related MiTM Bugs

September 27, 2017 By aatech

Samba this week released three security updates, including two related to SMB connections that could be abused by an attacker already on the network to hijack connections and manipulate traffic or data sent from a client. The most serious of the bugs is CVE-2017-12150 where with certain configurations, Samba fails to enforce SMB signing in […]