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Researchers Found Another Major Security Flaw in Intel CPUs
2018-01-12 23:05:40| Extremetech
Security researchers have found another flaw in Intel CPUs -- this time related to Intel Active Management Technology. Once again, this flaw can be leveraged to take complete control of a system, regardless of any security measures the user might employ. The post Researchers Found Another Major Security Flaw in Intel CPUs appeared first on ExtremeTech.
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Major Security Flaw Found in Silent Circle's Blackphone
2016-01-07 19:49:12| TechNewsWorld
Security researchers at SentinelOne on Wednesday revealed a vulnerability they discovered in the Blackphone. The flaw -- an obscure socket -- lets an attacker take over and control communications on the Blackphone, a highly secure Android smartphone Silent Circle developed and marketed in reaction to news of government surveillance of people's communications.
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Super-Scary Android Flaw Found
2015-07-28 19:51:29| TechNewsWorld
Zimperium on Monday revealed a stunning discovery by researcher Joshua Drake -- a flaw in Android's Stagefright media playback engine that could expose millions of mobile device users to attack without their having done anything. Stagefright, which processes several popular media formats, is implemented in native code -- C++ -- which is more prone to memory corruption than some other languages.
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Massive, undetectable security flaw found in USB: Its time to get your PS/2 keyboard out of the cupboard
2014-07-31 17:38:30| Extremetech
Security researchers have found a fundamental flaw that affects almost every USB device. This flaw is so serious that, now that it has been revealed, you probably shouldn't plug a USB device into your computer ever again. There are no known effective defenses against this variety of USB attack. The USB IF itself notes that your only defense against this new attack vector is to only use USB devices that you 100% trust -- but even then, as we'll outline below, this won't always protect you.
Major SSL flaw found in iOS, OS X
2014-02-23 04:00:48| InfoWorld: Top News
Security researchers revealed late Friday that iOS's validation of SSL encryption had a coding error that bypassed a key validation step in the Web protocol for secure communications. As a result, communications sent over unsecured Wi-Fi hot spots could be intercepted and read while unencrypted, potentially exposing user password, bank data, and other sensitive data to hackers via man-in-the-middle attacks. Secured Wi-Fi networks, such as home and business networks with encryption enabled, are not affected.