Oracle Solaris Zero-Day Attack Revealed
A threat actor is compromising telecommunications companies and targeted financial and professional consulting industries using an Oracle flaw.
A threat actor is compromising telecommunications companies and targeted financial and professional consulting industries using an Oracle flaw.
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If you spend a lot of time chatting on your phone, chances are that a good chunk of its storage is taken up by images and videos sent by friends and family over the years. Now WhatsApp is making it easier to clear up storage right from the app. WhatsApp already had basic functionality for…
Google has patched a second actively exploited zero-day flaw in the Chrome browser in two weeks, along with addressing nine other security vulnerabilities in its latest update. The company released 86.0.4240.183 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, which it said will be rolling out over the coming days/weeks to all users. The zero-day flaw, tracked as…
Good news for EV drivers: tire maker Pirelli is making a bunch of special rubber just for you! In a press release published this week, Pirelli announced two things, which really are the same thing. That it’s making tires specifically for the Rivian R1T and R1S electric trucks and that it’s going to release a…
A week after the US government issued an advisory about a “global intelligence gathering mission” operated by North Korean state-sponsored hackers, new findings have emerged about the threat group’s spyware capabilities. The APT — dubbed “Kimsuky” (aka Black Banshee or Thallium) and believed to be active as early as 2012 — has been now linked…
On October 20, 2020, it was announced that FinancialForce, a provider of ERP and professional services automation (PSA) software, was releasing several updates and new capabilities to its platforms.
Jessica spends 12 hours a day on the internet managing security for web assets and loves her macha tea
This is adapted from Plugged In, TNW’s bi-weekly newsletter on gear and gadgets. Subscribe to it (and our other great newsletters) here. Greetings gadget fans. This week Plugged In was fed another newsletter (Mad Cow Disease-style) and is feeling… well, weird. I’ve spent a lot of time writing about Apple of late — and for good reason: it’s the master of consistently churning out perfectly capable…
A week after the US government issued an advisory about a “global intelligence gathering mission” operated by North Korean state-sponsored hackers, new findings have emerged about the threat group’s spyware capabilities. The APT — dubbed “Kimsuky” (aka Black Banshee or Thallium) and believed to be active as early as 2012 — has been now linked…
Coding interviews are a daunting experience. You interview for your dream job, and a random stranger asks you to think on your feet for an hour. You’re being put under a microscope, and every comment you make and every code code you write is being analyzed intensely. Beads of sweat drip from your palms, and…
Google has disclosed details of a new zero-day privilege escalation flaw in the Windows operating system that’s being actively exploited in the wild. The elevation of privileges (EoP) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-17087, concerns a buffer overflow present since at least Windows 7 in the Windows Kernel Cryptography Driver (“cng.sys”) that can be exploited for a…