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One of the most popular VPN provides, NordVPN has been in the news recently for being hacked. According to NordVPN no user data was compromised and the bad actor never had access to any user traffic. A bad actor was able to acquire a TLS key for a single server in Finland. NordVPN is downplaying … Read More “NordVPN COMPROMISE” »
A security vulnerability was revealed earlier this week in the Nvidia GeForce Experience. If you are not familiar this is Nvidia’s preferred, (meaning default), method of delivering drivers to their video cards. Most gamers using Nvidia cards likely have this application installed to keep their drivers updated. It also includes the ability to take screenshots … Read More “NVIDIA GEFORCE EXPERIENCE OS COMMAND INJECTION” »
Norsk Hydro, (one of the world’s largest aluminum producers), has suffered a loss of profits due to a recent cyber attack. Additionally large US cities are struggling with ransomware. Baltimore and Atlanta have both fallen victim recently and they are not alone. These attacks were noteworthy in that they did not target the people but … Read More “NORSK HYDRO AND US CITIES AFFECTED BY RANSOMWARE” »
There is a good write up from Armin Sebastian on a vulnerability in Adblock Plus 3.2 which can allow for arbitrary code execution under certain conditions. There $rewrite filter option is the source of the problem and several conditions must be met in order for an attack to be possible. uBlock Origin is not susceptible … Read More “ADBLOCK PLUS – ARBITRARY CODE EXECUTION” »