TON: Telegram’s decentralized blockchain network face mixed reactions from financial regulators as more information is needed

TON: Telegram’s decentralized blockchain network face mixed reactions from financial regulators as more information is needed

Telegram is now joining the blockchain league with Telegram Open Network (TON), Telegram’s blockchain network. TON will integrate blockchain payments to 365 million users of Telegram by the end of October. Earlier this month, Telegram released half a million lines of code for TON, new documentation, and a beta. According ... Read More
zfs-0.8.2 releases with support for 2.6.32 – 5.3 Linux kernels and major bug fixes

zfs-0.8.2 releases with support for 2.6.32 – 5.3 Linux kernels and major bug fixes

Last week, the team behind ZFS released zfs-0.8.2, an advanced file system. This release comes with support for 2.6.32 – 5.3 Linux kernels and comes with a list of changes. What’s new in zfs-0.8.2 The issue regarding the deadlock condition for scrubbing root pools on kernels has been resolved in ... Read More
LastPass patched a security vulnerability from the extensions generated on pop-up windows

LastPass patched a security vulnerability from the extensions generated on pop-up windows

Last week, the team behind LastPass, a password manager website, released an update to patch a security vulnerability that exposes credentials entered by the users on a previously visited site. This vulnerability would let the websites steal credentials for the last account the user had logged into via Chrome or ... Read More
Lilocked ransomware (Lilu) affects thousands of Linux-based servers

Lilocked ransomware (Lilu) affects thousands of Linux-based servers

A ransomware strain named Lilocked or Lilu has been affecting thousands of Linux-based servers all over the world since mid-July and the attacks got intensified by the end of August, ZDNet reports. Lilocked ransomware’s first case got noticed when Micheal Gillespie, a malware researcher uploaded a ransomware note on the ... Read More
Exim patches a major security bug found in all versions that left millions of Exim servers vulnerable to security attacks

Exim patches a major security bug found in all versions that left millions of Exim servers vulnerable to security attacks

Last week, a vulnerability was found in all the versions of Exim, a mail transfer agent (MTA), that when exploited can let attackers run malicious code with root privileges. According to the Exim team, all Exim servers running version 4.92.1 and the previous ones are vulnerable. On September 4, the ... Read More
A bug found in Glibc limits modern SIMD instructions to only Intel, inhibiting performance of AMD and other CPUs

A bug found in Glibc limits modern SIMD instructions to only Intel, inhibiting performance of AMD and other CPUs

Yesterday, Mingye Wang reported a bug in the Glibc, GNU C Library. According to him, the dl_platform detection performs “cripple AMD” in the sysdeps in Glibc. The dl_platform check is used for dispatching SIMD (Single instruction, multiple data) libraries. Explaining the bug in detail, Wang writes, that in 2017, Glibc ... Read More
CircleCI reports of a security breach and malicious database in a third-party vendor account

CircleCI reports of a security breach and malicious database in a third-party vendor account

Last week, the team at CircleCI came across with a security breach incident that involved CircleCI and a third-party analytics vendor. An attacker got access to the user data including usernames, email addresses that were associated with GitHub and Bitbucket, user IP addresses as well as user-agent strings from their ... Read More
AT&T employees were bribed over $1 million for assisting hackers to illegally unlock cellphones, says DOJ

AT&T employees were bribed over $1 million for assisting hackers to illegally unlock cellphones, says DOJ

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Yesterday the United States’ Department of Justice (DOJ) stated that Muhammad Fahd, a 34-year-old citizen of Pakistan had bribed the employees from AT&T’s Seattle-area offices and call centers by paying more than $1 million. Fahd bribed those employees in order to install malware on AT&T’s network so that he could ... Read More
Google plans to remove XSS Auditor used for detecting XSS vulnerabilities from its Chrome web browser

Google plans to remove XSS Auditor used for detecting XSS vulnerabilities from its Chrome web browser

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As per a recent report by Naked Security, Google is planning to remove XSS Auditor from its Chrome web browser which is its built-in function designed for detecting cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities. Usually, an attacker injects their own code onto a legitimate website while performing the XSS attack. The attackers ... Read More
Microsoft introduces passwordless feature in its Windows 10 devices, replaces it with Windows Hello face authentication, fingerprints, or a PIN

Microsoft introduces passwordless feature in its Windows 10 devices, replaces it with Windows Hello face authentication, fingerprints, or a PIN

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For most of us, it is difficult to remember passwords across multiple devices and accounts. Also, if one account gets hacked, then attackers can manage to gain access to all the other accounts. Even though features like two-factor authentication (2FA) exist but not many use them. To make things simpler ... Read More
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