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The use-after-free vulnerability is the third Google Chrome zero-day flaw to be disclosed in three months. Google is hurrying out a fix for a vulnerability in its Chrome browser that’s under active attack – its third zero-day flaw so far this year. If exploited, the flaw could allow remote code-execution and denial-of-service attacks on affected systems. The vulnerability exists in Blink, the browser engine for Chrome developed as part of the Chromium project. Browser engines convert HTML d...

Civil society, experts join hands to address climate change and coastal vulnerabilities Karachi March 14, 2021 Climate change is seriously threatening the coastal belt of Pakistan and posing a serious threat to livelihoods, health, economy and ecosystems as a whole, experts said and called for public action involving youths, women, grassroots level activists and frontline communities to lead the fight. They said mankind has only 10 years left to radically shift economies and societies to deal...

Hackers are exploiting recently discovered vulnerabilities in Exchange email servers to drop ransomware, Microsoft has warned, a move that puts tens of thousands of email servers at risk of destructive attacks. In a tweet late Thursday, the tech giant said it had detected the new kind of file-encrypting malware called DoejoCrypt — or DearCry — which uses the same four vulnerabilities that Microsoft linked to a new China-backed hacking group called Hafnium. When chained together, ...

Unpatched Schneider Electric PowerLogic ION/PM smart meters are open to dangerous attacks.

minute read Share this article: The multinational brewing company did not say what type of incident caused a ‘systems outage,’ but it’s investigating and working to get networks back online. Another high-profile company has been hit with a cyber attack that’s causing a major disruption to its business. Brewing company Molson Coors acknowledged on Thursday that it has “experienced a systems outage that was caused by a cybersecurity incident,” according to a Form 8-K file...

TrickBot rises to top threat in February, overtaking Emotet in Check Point’s new index. A massive malicious spam campaign, along with the global takedown of Emotet, has vaulted the TrickBot trojan to the top of the Check Point’s list of the most popular malware among cybercriminals for February. In January, TrickBot was ranked third on Check Point’s list, and it was fourth overall for 2020, while the No. 1 malware, Emotet, remained ascendant. But following the worldwide law-enforcement ef...

To show how browsers can guard against the speculative execution bug, Google security researchers have shown how an attack would work.

The threat group behind the Sodinokibi ransomware claimed to have recently compromised nine organizations.

Sky ECC claims that cops cracked a fake version of the app being passed off by disgruntled reseller.

The F5 flaws could affect the networking infrastructure for some of the largest tech and Fortune 500 companies – including Microsoft, Oracle and Facebook.