UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson is going to ban the use of equipment from the Chinese tech giant Huawei in Britain’s 5G network, reported The Daily Telegraph. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is expected to begin phasing out the use of network equipment manufactured by the Chinese tech giant Huawei in the UK’s 5G network as little as six months, The D

Cisco’s Talos experts disclosed the details of recently patched vulnerabilities affecting the popular Chrome and Firefox web browsers. Researchers from Cisco Talos disclosed technical details of recently patched vulnerabilities affecting the popular Chrome and Firefox web browsers. The first issue, tracked as CVE-2020-6463, is a memory corruption vulne

F5 Networks has published a security advisory warning customers to patch a critical flaw in BIG-IP product that is very likely to be exploited. F5 Networks has addressed a critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-5902, that resides in undisclosed pages of Traffic Management User Interface (TMUI) of the BIG-IP product.

The root cause of a series of explosions at important facilities in Iran may be cyberattacks allegedly launched by Israel. A recent sequence of fires and explosions at important Iranian facilities may have been caused by cyber attacks as part of an operation conducted by Israel. Recently several major Iranian industrial facilities suffered a sequence o

New malware targeting the Mac was discovered this week; it’s a hybrid ransomware-wiper-spyware, but you don’t need to worry if you don’t download pirated software. We also discuss how a journalist’s iPhone was hacked by him visiting a website, look at issues with the TikTok app on iOS, and look at how Google is now auto-deleting new u

Cisco announced that it has patched several vulnerabilities affecting its products, including security issues in Small Business routers and switches. Cisco has addressed eight vulnerabilities affecting its products, including flaws in Small Business routers and switches. The most severe flaw, tracked as CVE-2020-3297, affects Small Business and managed

Microsoft has silently released an emergency security update through the Windows Store app to address two vulnerabilities in Windows codecs. Microsoft has silently released two out-of-band security updates through the Windows Store app to address two vulnerabilities in the Windows Codecs Library. The two issues are remote code execution vulnerabilities

The U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) announced that Chinese telecommunications giants Huawei and ZTE are considered as national security threats. Last week China accused the US government of “oppressing Chinese companies” after U.S. regulators declared Huawei and ZTE to be national security threats. The Federal Communications Commission blo

Charity scams are on the rise in North America. The Covid-19 pandemic and the complicated political situation in the USA caused by the upcoming presidential elections have made more and more people be extra vocal about the causes they support. While some are taking it to the streets or presidential rallies, others are simply looking for charities that repres

Between the Q3 and Q4 last year, the average ransom demanded in a ransomware attack increased 104%, reaching $84,116. However, some variants of ransomware demand even more, especially if the malware targets large companies, as is the case with Ryuk. Given that this ransomware targets corporate environments, focusing on the Enterprise segment, it demands an a

Simple and reliable, Apple iPhones are believed to be some of the most secure mobile devices available. Apple security comes down to one factor – very tight control of the operating system and hardware. To better protect users, Apple iPhones and iPads can only install apps from the official App Store. Every app is checked by Apple’s security experts to verif

Adobe, Mastercard, Visa are warning the owners of the online store running Magento 1.x of updating their installs because it will reach EOL by June 30 Adobe, Mastercard, Visa are warning the owners of online store running Magento 1.x of updating their installs because it will reach the end-of-life (EOL) by June 30 After June 30, Adobe will no more offe

Asian media firm E27 suffered a security breach and hackers asked for a “donation” to provide information on the flaws they exploited in the attack Asian media firm E27 has been hacked by a hacking group identifying themselves as “Korean Hackers” and “Team Johnwick”that asked for a “donation” to provide info

NVIDIA released security patches for a dozen vulnerabilities in GPU display drivers and vGPU software, including code execution issues. NVIDIA has released security updates to address a dozen vulnerabilities in GPU display drivers and vGPU software, some of them could lead to code execution. “NVIDIA has released a software security update for NVI

Microsoft researchers are warning of attacks against Exchange servers and published guidance on how to defend them. Microsoft’s Defender ATP Research Team released guidance on how to defend against attacks targeting Exchange servers with the use of behavior-based detection. Microsoft researchers analyzed multiple campaigns targeting Exchange serv