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Cyber-Security Firm Discovers Firmware Backdoor in Many Gigabyte Motherboards

Cyber-Security firm, Eclypsium has revealed today that they have discovered a hidden security backdoor in the firmware of GIGABYTE motherboards. Security Backdoor in Gigabyte ...

May 31, 2023 at 4:11 pm by

Intel Has a New Major CPU Security Flaw (But It Probably Doesn’t Affect You!)

Intel doesn’t have a particularly good history in recent years when it comes to security flaws being discovered within their processor releases. Admittedly, AMD has ...

August 11, 2022 at 10:10 am by

Major Windows Security Flaw Discovered Within 7-ZIP Compression Software

I daresay that many of you reading this probably have some kind of compression software installed on your PC or laptop. It’s a pretty common kind of program and is ...

April 21, 2022 at 8:23 am by

Google Warns Windows 7 Chrome Users To Update Immediately!

Google Warns Of “Serious” Windows 7 Bug Despite Microsoft’s best efforts, there is still a remarkably high number of people clinging to Windows 7 rather than ...

March 9, 2019 at 10:59 am by

Intel Gives Up On Making Some Spectre Microcode Fixes

Intel Gives Up On Spectre Microcode For Older CPUs At the start of the year, Intel got caught unprepared when Spectre and Meltdown were revealed. Since then, Intel has ...

April 4, 2018 at 9:21 am by

Intel Shows Full List of CPUs Affected by Spectre & Meltdown

The Intel fix can cause some problems. You don’t mess with security flaws, which is why Intel has been working hard on fixes for Spectre and Meltdown. The company even ...

January 6, 2018 at 11:05 am by

Qualcomm Security Flaw Letting Others Read Your Messages

When it comes to privacy we all like the idea that we can keep some secrets to ourselves. If you write it down in your diary you often have to worry about others reading it, ...

May 5, 2016 at 10:40 pm by

Google Researcher Publishes Unpatched Windows 8.1 Security Vulnerability

Usually, found security exploits are reported before publicised and so was MSRC-20544 exploit for Windows 8.1. But 90 days after the security researcher from Google had ...

January 2, 2015 at 4:58 pm by

Mobile Network Vulnerability Means Hackers Could Listen in to Calls

A vulnerability in mobile networks has been discovered that allows hackers to monitor phone calls and track user locations. The weakness, part of the SS7 global mobile ...

December 20, 2014 at 10:58 pm by

Samsung Smart Phones Have Security Flaw in Security Function

Modern smartphones have advanced security features in one form or another, and it is no different with Samsung’s smartphones. Samsung employs a feature called Find My ...

October 30, 2014 at 5:22 pm by

BadUSB Security Flaw and What It Means

You might have heard the term BadUSB in the news sometime during the last couple of months, but it’s still not widely known. We first saw the presentation of the ...

October 9, 2014 at 3:58 pm by

Bug in Bash Shell Creates Major Security Hole for Linux Users

A major security bug has been discovered in the GNU Borne Again Shell (Bash) – a  command-line shell that’s used across a wide array of Linux and Unix operating ...

September 25, 2014 at 7:51 am by

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