Category: vulnerabilities

TikTok fixed a flaw that could have exposed user accounts

Post author By Randall
Post date January 8, 2020
Categories In av, breach, business, check point, data, Entertainment, flaw, hackers, Internet, Mobile, Security, Tech, Tiktok, tomorrow, vulnerabilities

[ad_1] The vulnerability could have resulted in TikTok users being sent messages containing malicious links. If clicked, attackers could take control of user accounts. Check Point also discovered a separate flaw, which allowed researchers to obtain personal information via TikTok’s website. Check Point made TikTok aware of these vulnerabilities on November 20th last year, and […]

Iowa asked researchers to break into a courthouse, then it arrested them

Post author By Randall
Post date November 12, 2019
Categories In arrested, coalfire, courthouse, criminal charges, Cybersecurity, dallas courthouse, Election, gear, government, iowa, penetration testing, Politics, Security, security researcher, Tech, vulnerabilities

[ad_1] The incident occurred in September. The Coalfire employees found a door to the Dallas Courthouse open. They closed the door to see if it would lock and then attempted to open it, setting off an alarm. Following protocol, they waited for police to arrive, and showed them their paperwork. The first deputies to respond […]

Apple tries to clear up Google’s claims about iOS vulnerabilities

Post author By Randall
Post date September 6, 2019
Categories In Apple, attack, blog, exploit, gear, Google, Internet, ios, Iphone, Mobile, Security, Tech, update, vulnerabilities, vulnerability, websites

[ad_1] Apple reiterates that the vulnerabilities Google highlighted were fixed in February. It says the attack affected fewer than a dozen websites that were targeted at the Uighur community. Apple believes the website attacks were only operational for about two months, not two years, as the Google security researchers wrote. Apple reportedly fixed the issue […]

EA patched Origin security flaws that put millions of users at risk

Post author By Randall
Post date June 26, 2019
Categories In check point research, Cyberattack, cyberint, Cybersecurity, ea, ea games, flaw, Gaming, hijack, identity theft, Internet, online gaming, origin, patch, Security, Tech, vulnerabilities, vulnerability

[ad_1] The vulnerabilities took advantage of abandoned subdomains, EA Games’ use of authentication tokens and single sign-on and TRUST mechanisms built into the user login process. Had an attack been carried out, it could have been devastating, given that EA is the world’s second largest gaming company and millions of user accounts would have been […]

AMD says its chips are immune to crippling new vulnerabilities

Post author By Randall
Post date May 20, 2019
Categories In amd, gear, Intel, mitigation, personal computing, personalcomputing, processors, ridl, store-to-leakforwarding, Tech, vulnerabilities, zombieload

[ad_1] Continuing with the bad news for Intel, Linux-specialist site Phoronix ran tests showing that the patches can significantly impact performance. Intel machines ran 16 percent slower on average with the new updates installed and hyper-threading enabled, compared to a 3 percent hit on AMD chips. To make matters worse, Apple and Google have advised […]