Security

Microsoft’s plan to split Windows 10 from shell is happening Windows 10 preview shows signs of Windows OS separating from the shell in line with Microsoft’s modular plans. Following last week’s Patch Tuesday updates, Microsoft has rolled out non-security cumulative updates for all versions of Windows 10 below version 1903.  ...

Five million Bulgarians get their data hacked (the country only has 7 million!) Source of the data breach appears to be the country’s National Revenue Agency. 700,000 records belonging to Choice Hotels have reportedly been stolen with hackers demanding payment for their return.  Comparitech, in collaboration with security researcher Bob ...

At the DEF CON 27 security conference today in Las Vegas, security researchers from Eclypsium gave a talk about common design flaws they found in more than 40 kernel drivers from 20 different hardware vendors. The common design flaws is that low-privileged applications can use legitimate driver functions to execute ...

Meltdown-Spectre: A reminder to the IT industry that security is a mirage These latest flaws show once again that it’s time for a better approach. A newly uncovered vulnerability affecting every Windows computer using an Intel processor built since 2012 could allow attackers to bypass safeguards and access information held ...

Bug tracking with magnifier on LCD screen. Jovan V. Nikolic The Google Project Zero team said that around 95.8% of the security bugs they find in other software and report to their respective vendors get fixed before the 90-day deadline for a public disclosure expires. That’s quite the batting average ...

Dark web criminals are selling tools to help target your firm’s data Dark web listings of malware aimed at companies are on the rise. A prolific seller of drugs on the Dark Web caught in a sting operation has been charged and ordered to forfeit over $4 million in cryptocurrency.  ...

Image: ZDNet British telco Sky has locked Sky.com iD accounts as a safety measure following a credentials stuffing attack detected last month. The measure was taken as a precaution, the company told ZDNet via email. Hackers accessed some Sky.com email accounts following last month’s credentials stuffing attack, but those users ...

Image: 0v1ru$ Hackers have breached SyTech, a contractor for FSB, Russia’s national intelligence service, from where they stole information about internal projects the company was working on behalf of the agency — including one for deanonymizing Tor traffic. The breach took place last weekend, on July 13, when a group ...

Android app developers intentionally delayed updating their applications to work on top of Android 6.0, so they could continue to have access to an older permission-requesting mechanism that granted them easy access to large quantities of user data, research published by the University of Maryland last month has revealed. The ...

Making sure that your personal information is safely and securely erased from devices that you are no longer using is a good thing. Here’s a quick guide to securely wiping hard drives (HDDs), solid state drives (SSDs), flash drives, and even iOS and Android devices. Just bear in mind that ...