Protection Against Side-Channel Attacks Added to OpenSSH
Protection against Spectre, Meltdown, Rowhammer, RAMBleed and other side-channel attacks has been added to OpenSSH. These recently uncovered attack methods can allow malicious actors...
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U.S. Launched Cyber Attacks on Iran After Drone Shootdown: Reports
The United States launched cyber attacks against Iranian missile control systems and a spy network this week after Tehran downed an American surveillance drone,...
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OpenSSH Now Encrypts Secret Keys in Memory Against Side-Channel Attacks
In recent years, several groups of cybersecurity researchers have disclosed dozens of memory side-channel vulnerabilities in modern processors and DRAMs, like Rowhammer, RAMBleed, Spectre,...
OpenSSH gets protection against attacks like Spectre, Meltdown, Rowhammer, and Rambleed
The OpenSSH project is getting protection against side-channel attacks that are known to leak data from a computer’s memory, and allow malicious threat actors...
Millions of Devices Exposed to Attacks Due to Flaw in PC-Doctor Software
More than 100 million computers from Dell and other vendors may have been exposed to hacker attacks due to a serious vulnerability in software...
Mozilla Patches Second Firefox Zero-Day Used in Cryptocurrency Attacks
Mozilla on Thursday patched a second zero-day vulnerability in Firefox that has been exploited by malicious actors to deliver Mac malware to cryptocurrency exchanges....
Generate Virtual Online IDs, Prevent Attacks
Giving out your email address or phone number when signing in for an online service could land you in trouble. You might end up...
A Primer To The Nature Of Brute-Force Attacks
Brute-force attack cases are considered to be “password list attacks” using a list of leaked IDs and passwords at another site. There are many...
Firefox Zero-Day Vulnerability Exploited in Targeted Attacks
Updates released by Mozilla for its Firefox web browser on Tuesday patch a critical vulnerability that has been actively exploited in attacks. The zero-day...
Firefox Releases Critical Patch Update to Stop Ongoing Zero-Day Attacks
If you use the Firefox web browser, you need to update it right now. Mozilla earlier today released Firefox 67.0.3 and Firefox ESR 60.7.1...