SecurityLab, [24.03.20 08: 05] Cybercriminals hack Windows PCs through a previously unknown vulnerability in the Adobe Type Manager library (atmfd.dll) used by the operating system to process PostScript type 1 fonts. Microsoft described attacks exploiting this vulnerability as “targeted” and […]
No. 1 Emotet — 36 026 samples Trojan was first discovered 2014 and was used to intercept data transferred via a secure connection. We will remind, in September of this year Emotet came back to life after 4 months of […]
apologize! games = windows, still ? (although there are 6000 steam games running on linux) the very first “Open Source GPU” is in the making: https://www.crowdsupply.com/libre-risc-v/m-class “The Libre RISC-V M-Class is a RISC-V chip that is libre-licensed to the bedrock. […]
“We need to be more vigilant with what we trust from the internet” – BigBrother will use this against you! … even if Putin, Trump and Obama will die some day… his digital deep fake copy will feed you lies […]
SecurityLab, [25.11.19 15:44] The Creator of the world wide web Tim Berners-Lee (Tim Berners-Lee) presented an action plan to protect the network from political manipulation, fake news, privacy violations and other harmful influences. Tim Berners-Lee: “control of information is hugely […]
i really like virtualbox and i think it has great potential, what i do not like SOOO much is the CIA’s involvement with Oracle. “Larry Ellison Is A Billionaire Today Thanks To The CIA” (src) VirtualBox is mostly GPL 2.0 […]
SecurityLab, [22.11.19 08:23] French company Edenred reported a cyberattack using malware that affected an unknown number of computer systems. The company has launched an investigation to determine the extent of the contamination. Payment solution provider Edenred has been the victim […]
new Russian IT Security updates: thanks to https://www.securitylab.ru/ and https://translate.yandex.com/ SecurityLab, [06.11.19 16:12] The Libarchive compression library, which is included by default in Debian, Ubuntu, Gentoo, Arch Linux, FreeBSD, and NetBSD distributions, contains a vulnerability that allows an attacker […]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRt2VYjAy4c 2013: just in case if anyone was asking if the DARPA Robot challenge was for helping mankind in space… well… that and other things. 2017: the Russians have their robot challenge as well, further fueling the arms race (spending […]
SecurityLab, [01.11.19 15:21] Google has released fixes for two vulnerabilities in Chrome, including a zero-day vulnerability exploited in real-world attacks. The issues are fixed in browser version 78.0.3904.87 for Windows, Mac and Linux, and users are strongly advised to install […]
Make an impact! (just not on impact) how can everyone help build the city on Mars? Musk: talk about it! 🙂 write about it! spread the news! set the focus of the discussion! computer rendering of SpaceShip 2020-12: SpaceShip SN8 […]
BitPaymer attack has blocked the work of the industrial giant Pilz one of the largest manufacturers of industrial automation tools Pilz GmbH & Co. KG Type GmbH & Co. KG Industry Automation technology Founded 1948 Headquarters Ostfildern , Germany Revenue […]
Another reason to NOT trust EVERY human task to machines… unless one wants to get killed by a robot dressed up as dinosaur. “great” X-D “Japanese travel agent H. I. S. Group ignored warnings about a vulnerability in its Tapia […]
Update: 2021-02 “A statement from the German Federal Criminal Police Office about their participation in Operation Ladybird said prosecutors seized 17 servers in Germany that acted as Emotet controllers.” and many bars of gold and cash were seized in Ukraine… […]
what IT can learn from nature: (src) mostly US users affected. Big Business: Big Companies and Big Money can afford Big Staff to maintain and secure their products, but they also provide Big Infrastructure (AWS, Office) and thus a single […]
THE ECB BIRD WAS HACKED! “however, the internal system of the Bank has not been compromised” the site http://www.banks-integrated-reporting-dictionary.eu/ was taken offline. It is fascinating. The Europeans probably do not even know about “what is going on” and according to ex […]
“Linux desktop remains an unpopular choice among mainstream desktop users, making up a little more than 2% of the desktop operating system market share. This is in contrast to the web server market share, which consists of 70% of Linux-based operating systems. […]
Capitalism inspires the short sighted incentives. But trust and honesty is key in long term relationships. So for a short period of time – some dishonest people might enjoy the benefits – but in the end – it comes home […]
don’t be evil “Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. […]
it might sound strange… and even if it sucks, but if you are concerned about security, call me paranoid but: your company’s critical infrastructure SHALL NOT BE REACHABLE BY WIFI! (especially not if you are running a nuclear power plant, […]
servers/clients/computers/programs/services/webservers need accurate time… they usually get it from time servers that have an atomic clock attached to their USB port. (just guessing) ping time.google.com PING time.google.com (216.239.35.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from time2.google.com (216.239.35.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=43.5 […]
Pwn2Own 2020: opening a pdf can be enough to compromise system! https://youtu.be/u1udr7j9MQA?t=359 thank you ccc you are doing a lovely work – make this planet more interesting by creativity and more informed about security 🙂 keep it up 🙂 https://cdn.media.ccc.de/events/gpn/gpn19/h264-hd/gpn19-45-eng-BADPDF_-_Stealing_Windows_Credentials_via_PDF_Files_hd.mp4 […]
Update: 2020.03 “The newly developed Rowhammer- attack TRRespass can crack the RAM-a security mechanism by many DDR4-DRAM-modules as well as LPDDR4 Chips. Until now, these were considered to be almost immune to Rowhammer attacks.” https://www.com-magazin.de/news/sicherheit/software-hammer-ram-schutz-attackiert-2515621.html Update: 2019.10 Zombieload is back. […]
scroll down for ENGLISH: ) OMG! Da die IT von Baltimore sich einen Ransome-Virus eingefangen hat, können die Bürger ihre Steuern und ihre Blitzer-Tickets nicht zahlen! Wunderbar! 🙂 Mit welchem Aufwand man rechnen muss, wenn man sich von der Digitalisierung […]
google’s security lab “project zero“ has made itself a name. (you can subscribe to their rss feed with thunderbird.) Posted by Ben Hawkes, Project Zero (team lead) (2019-05-15) Project Zero’s team mission is to “make zero-day hard”, i.e. to make […]
20-30% of positive ratings as well as negative ratings (to make competition look bad) are fake! according to gallileo magazine this website tries to filter/debunk the fake from the real ratings: https://reviewmeta.com/
WARNING! It could also be US hackers that try to frame the Chinese. another reason, PayPal is clearly politically biased: 2010: PayPal Freezes WikiLeaks Account | WIRED https://www.wired.com/2010/12/paypal-wikileaks/ PayPal’s move comes amid mounting U.S. pressure against WikiLeaks over its cache […]
https://youtu.be/Z9z66ksWtlg one week downtime – they got backups and are not planing on paying the ransome. “Norwegian oil and gas and metallurgical Corporation Norsk Hydro was hit by the encoder LockerGoga — to stop the spread of malware, IT-specialists had […]
this is probably the most evil way of social engineering: fear makes a lot of money – but it can even kill already traumatized people. It works like this: criminals create fake profiles on dating sites / facebook / twitter […]
Update: 2020-03 it is very very confusing. on the one side the whole world is moving towards https SecurityLab, [25.03.20 15:55] “Mozilla implements an additional HTTPS Only mode in Firefox 76, in which the browser will only accept encrypted connections, […]