Tag: security

Taiwan-based network-attached storage (NAS) maker QNAP has released security patches for multiple vulnerabilities that could allow attackers to inject and execute malicious code and commands remotely on vulnerable NAS devices. […]

The US Department of Justice charged the admin of the WireX Android botnet for targeting an American multinational hotel chain in a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack. […]

Cybersecurity firm Profero has discovered that the RansomExx gang does not correctly lock Linux files during encryption, leading to potentially corrupted files. […]

The House Committee on Oversight and Reform has requested a briefing to understand the rationale behind FBI’s decision to delay providing the victims of the Kaseya REvil ransomware with an universal decryption key for three weeks. […]

Academic researchers have found a way to make fraudulent payments using Apple Pay from a locked iPhone with a Visa card in the digital wallet set as a transit card. […]

Facebook today open-sourced a static analysis tool its software and security engineers use internally to find potentially dangerous security and privacy flaws in the company’s Android and Java applications. […]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the National Security Agency (NSA) have released guidance for hardening the security of virtual private network (VPN) solutions. […]

Commercially developed FinFisher malware now can infect Windows devices using a UEFI bootkit that it injects in the Windows Boot Manager. […]