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Google has admitted that a bug was present in the API for the consumer version of Google Plus (Google+) that let third-party developers’ access data of not just its users but also of their contacts and friends. Reportedly, data of up to 500,000 users could have been exposed to external developers. The bug was present […]
The distribution of latest Windows 10 update for October 2018, released by Microsoft this week, has been halted after reports about it causing grave data loss started emerging. Dubbed version 1089, the update was released for Windows 10 users to check for updates manually but it turns out that it is deleting user data including […]
With new iPhone XS out, it is a universally believed fact that Apple is committed to improving, and enhancing user privacy and security in its devices. With the new iOS 12 and iOS 12.1 beta, the Cupertino-based company claims to have taken security to a whole new level. However, this claim is questioned after numerous […]
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The social media giant Facebook said on Thursday that a critical bug exposed private posts of 14 million users to the public – Simply put: Facebook users who choose their posts to be displayed to the people on their list had exposed their posts to outsiders and anyone could see what was being shared or published on the timeline. According to […]
Twitter, the social network, and online news giant is sending notifications to each and every registered user (336 million in total) urging them to change their account password. This is because a bug in its system saved user passwords on an unprotected internal log in plain text format. Although the bug has been fixed and there […]
Last week it was reported that there were a bunch of malware-infected QR reader apps on Play Store which was downloaded half a million time. Now, Infosec’s security researcher Roman Mueller has identified a flaw in the way iOS camera application manages QR codes; the flaw leads to redirecting users to malicious destinations. The vulnerability is […]
Apple and its much-hyped APFS or Apple File System have been under hot waters lately as the fateful APFS has been diagnosed with another bug that Apple will have to fix, that too in the same week. On Thursday it was reported that a bug in various iOS and macOS apps were unable to display […]
A critical security flaw or bug in Motorola Moto G5 Plus lets anyone easily bypass the lockscreen without going through the authentication process. Amazon’s Prime Exclusive program has been running successfully from quite some time now; under this program, Amazon partners with mobile phone vendors to sell their phones on a considerably low price if customers choose to […]
Uber has no plans to fix a critical security flaw in its two-factor authentication (2FA) protocol reported by an IT security researcher. An Indian IT security researcher Karan Saini has discovered a critical security flaw in the two-factor authentication protocol used by the ride-hailing giant Uber to protect user accounts from hijacking and prevent their data from hackers. The […]
A software developer Abraham Masri has managed to identify a new iMessage bug dubbed as chaiOS, which can infect Apple’s iPhone and Mac devices and crashes or freezes them. The developer posted about his findings on GitHub this Tuesday. According to Masri, the vulnerability was identified when he was attempting to break the operating system […]
Amongst the most common and in demand applications for MySQL database management is the phpMyAdmin, which became vulnerable, when a critical flaw was found in the application’s security. phpMyAdmin phpMyAdmin is an administration tool for MariaDB and MySQL which is open source and free. It is vastly used in managing the database for websites which […]
Almost all Intel Processors Generations are impacted by the flaw while Intel CPUs are facing 30% performance hit. A Linux kernel development site LWN has reported that there is a serious hardware bug in modern Intel CPUs due to which an attacker can access low-level kernel memory. The memory normally is protected from higher level access from […]
Apple is one of the biggest companies today, but its devices are not free from issues. Recently, it was reported that the company’s HomeKit software used to control smart home devices had certain vulnerabilities that posed great risks as the software was hackable, which would give hackers access to control devices connected to a specific […]
There are over one billion devices with TeamViewer, a software that allows users to conduct online meetings, desktop sharing, remote control, file transfer, etc. between computers. So when there is a vulnerability in such a widely used program, it becomes a big thing. Recently, a GitHub user going by the online handle of “Gellin” discovered a critical vulnerability […]
Apple’s Latest OS High Sierra Plagued With Critical Security Vulnerability Allowing Anyone To Login Into Mac Without A Password. Lemi Ergin, a Turkey-based software developer has discovered a critical security bug in Apple’s recently released operating system macOS High Sierra. The flaw was revealed to the public via Twitter. According to his tweet, this flaw is […]
The social media giant Facebook has more than 2 billion monthly active users so when there is a bug in it, that’s big news. Recently an Iranian security researcher discovered a critical bug that allowed anyone to delete any photo from any user on Facebook without having access to their account. The researcher who goes by […]
As surprising and unbelievable as it sounds, it is indeed true that a single user has managed to jeopardize lives of countless individuals by permanently locking down dozens of multisignature digital wallets simply by accidentally deleting the code needed to access the wallets. The wallets were hosted by Parity Technologies; the company admitted that the […]
A strange text error has left some iPhone users unable to write the letter “I”. But, every time they try to use the English first-person pronoun, it gets replaced by the letter A and an unprintable unicode character, normally presented as a question mark in a box (A[?]). The strange character combo looks as the […]
If you are using Comcast’s Internet service and facing issues with your connection then you are not alone, there are millions of people around the United States suffering Internet outage due to some technical issue with the company’s servers. According to DownDetector, a service that keeps track of online platforms facing connectivity issues, over 8,000 reports citing […]
Security researchers have discovered a new privilege-escalation vulnerability in Linux kernel that could allow a local attacker to execute code on the affected systems with elevated privileges. Discovered by Venustech ADLab (Active-Defense Lab) researchers, the Linux kernel vulnerability (CVE-2017-15265) is due to a use-after-free memory error in the Advanced Linux Sound Architecture (ALSA) sequencer interface […]