File this one away under “confirming things we already knew.” A recent study conducted jointly by Blink and Trusona confirmed that people just don’t like passwords very much. Their study tracked the login behavior of 148 participants over a...
What’s old is new again. Hackers have recently begun re-deploying a decade-old trick called ‘ZeroFont’ to get around Microsoft’s security filters and deliver phishing and spam emails to Office 365 email accounts. The gimmick? Zero-point...
How many web apps do you have on your phone? Probably a ton. Here’s something you likely didn’t know. Based on the latest research from Positive Technologies, nearly half of them (48 percent) are vulnerable to unauthorized access. As bad as that is,...
Recently Google has stepped up its efforts, this time by focusing on Chrome browser extensions installed by third parties. By the end of the year, no extensions will be allowed on Chrome except for those acquired via the Web Store. James Wagner, Google’s...
“System software may opt to utilize Lazy FP state restore instead of eager save and restore of the state upon a context switch…Lazy restored states are potentially vulnerable to exploits where one process may infer register values of other process through...
Ranked in this way, the top four most vulnerable countries are: The United States China South Korea The UK All told, these four nations control more than 61 million servers listed on at least one of the points surveyed by Rapid7. Drilling down a bit more deeply, the...
