Security

Check Point experts, together with Dimensional Research, interviewed IT and information security professionals from all over the world that work in organizations with more than 500 employees. At Check Point concluded that the coronavirus pandemic created ideal conditions for cyberattacks. The main topic of the survey was the difficulties that …

Google announced that it is temporarily refusing to deploy the SameSite cookies protection mechanism, which was enabled for a limited number of Chrome 80 users in February this year. Because of the coronavirus, companies do not want to provoke website crashes and create additional problems with their availability. Due to …

According to NetMarketShare, Microsoft Edge is now overtook Mozilla Firefox in popularity. This makes Edge the second desktop browser in the world, although Google Chrome still leads with a huge margin and currently occupies 68.5% of the market. This month, Edge first surpassed Firefox in popularity and market share. Even …

Due to widespread of self-isolation and quarantine, the Zoom video conferencing application has gained unprecedented popularity: the number of its users has increased from 10,000,000 in December 2019 to 200,000,000 in March 2020. However, the number of bug reports in the application reached a critical mass: SpaceX and NASA even …

In a Rank Math plugin for WordPress, installed more than 200,000 times, was detected a critical bug related to privilege escalation. As a result of exploitation of a bug, an attacker can grant administrator privileges to any registered user of the resource. Defiant Wordfence Threat Intelligence specialists discovered the problem …

Researchers at IBM X-Force report that the Zeus Sphinx banker (aka Zloader and Terdot) is active again after several years of inactivity and is now exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to its advantage. Experts recall that Zeus Sphinx was first discovered in August 2015. Then the malware went on sale in …

According to the Financial Times, the United Nations International Telecommunication Union (ITU) has received a proposal to replace the TCP/IP protocol with a new one – New IP. China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, Huawei and China Unicom and China Telecom have jointly proposed changes to the current state …

As more people start working from home in response to the coronavirus pandemic, Zoom’s video conferencing service is becoming increasingly popular. Cybercriminals decided to take advantage of this situation, and now they distribute malware through the fake Zoom domains. Fraudsters register fake “Zoom” domains and create homonymous malicious executable files …

A group of scientists from universities in Switzerland, Italy and the Netherlands said that the Android OS allows third parties to receive lists of all applications installed on the device. Experts are preparing to present an interesting report at MOBILESoft, which will be held in Seoul this year, unless of …

Apple released macOS Catalina 10.15.4, in which fixed 27 vulnerabilities. Problems affected components such as Bluetooth, call history, CoreFoundation, FaceTime, the kernel, libxml2, Mail, sudo, and Time Machine. The exploitation of vulnerabilities allowed attackers to execute arbitrary code with system or kernel privileges, increase privileges on the system, and also …