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Windows 10 1903 on ARM Gets a Virtualization-based Security Feature

Windows 10 version 1903 on ARM has gotten an additional virtualization-based security feature that creates secured regions of memory that are isolated from the operating system. These secured and isolated regions of memory can then be used by security solutions so that they are better protected from vulnerabilities in the operating s […]

29 Sep

Cloudflare Now Blocks the vBulletin RCE CVE-2019-16759 Exploit

This week a zero-day vBulletin remote code execution vulnerability and exploit was publicly disclosed and is being used by bad actors to attack vBulletin forums. Cloudflare has now created a special rule that will prevent this exploit from working on vBulletin sites behind Cloudflare’s service. […]

20 Sep

Twitter Removes State-backed Actors Conducting Information Campaigns

Twitter has removed another batch of state-sponsored actors performing information campaigns on Twitter. The detected operations announced today involved Qatar, Iran, Yemen, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, Spain, China, and Hong Kong. […]

11 Sep

Google Chrome May Let Sites Block Your Screen from Powering Down

Google Chrome developers have added an intent to experiment with a feature that enables web applications to keep systems awake even in lack of mouse or keyboard activity. […]

10 Sep

Google Unveils DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) Plan, Mozilla’s Faces Criticism

Google has announced that they would soon be performing a trial of utilizing DNS-over-HTTPS (DoH) in the Google Chrome browser. This experiment will be conducted in Chrome 78 and will attempt to upgrade a user’s DNS server to a corresponding DoH server, and if available, use that for DNS resolution. […]

04 Sep

Mozilla Will Support Existing Ad Blockers in Extensions Manifest v3

Mozilla has decided to split from Google and continue to support existing ad blockers in the upcoming extension changes being proposed by Google as part of the Extensions Manifest v3. […]

31 Aug

Reddit Experiencing Outage Due to Amazon AWS Issue

Some users say they are experiencing problems with Reddit today. Most of them are reporting that they cannot access the website for the social discussion platform. […]

26 Aug

Phishing Campaign Delivers Quasar RAT Payloads via Fake Resumes

A new phishing campaign uses fake resume attachments designed to deliver Quasar Remote Administration Tool (RAT) malicious payloads onto the Windows computers of unsuspecting targets. […]

22 Aug

GitHub Experienced Widespread Major Services Outage

The GitHub Git repository hosting platform experienced a widespread and major services outage impacting the Issues, PRs, Dashboard, Projects, and Notifications features. […]

16 Aug

Google Has Started Removing FTP Support From Chrome

Google developers have wanted to remove FTP support from the Chrome browser for quite some time and have been slowly whittling away at its support. In a series of proposed code changes and an “Intent to Remove”, the end is near for the FTP protocol in Chrome. […]

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