security vulnerabilities

  1. Hanno Labuschagne

    Cisco security flaw impacts critical SA infrastructure

    Cisco security flaw impacts critical SA infrastructure At least 1,594 Cisco devices running the company’s IOS XE operating system in South Africa may be affected by a critical security flaw. Devices running this software could be powering critical Internet and enterprise network infrastructure...
  2. Hanno Labuschagne

    US wants hardware and software manufacturers held responsible for cyberattacks due to vulnerabilities

    US wants hardware and software manufacturers held responsible for cyberattacks due to vulnerabilities The Biden administration is set to release an aggressive new national cybersecurity strategy on Thursday that seeks to shift the blame from companies that get hacked to software manufacturers...
  3. Jan

    Linux devs beat big companies at fixing security bugs

    Linux developers faster at fixing security bugs than Microsoft and Apple Linux developers take less time to patch security vulnerabilities than the teams at large software companies — including Microsoft, Apple, and Google. That is according to Google's Project Zero, a research initiative that...
  4. Jan

    Security flaw in new Joburg website exposed personal resident data... again

    Critical security flaw exposed Joburg residents' private info The City of Joburg's new online e-services system has a significant flaw that exposed the personal information of its municipal customers. In 2013, MyBroadband reported that the predecessor to the new site — cojestatements.co.za —...
  5. Hanno Labuschagne

    AMD chipset flaw can leak passwords

    AMD chipset flaw can leak passwords Chip manufacturer AMD has shared more details on a chipset driver vulnerability that allowed non-admin computer users to download passwords and carry out other attacks. The issue affects a wide range of AMD processors, including all Ryzen desktop and mobile...
  6. mercurial

    Malicious Git repos could see an attacker remotely execute code on your system

    Malicious Git repos could see an attacker remotely execute code on your system
  7. mercurial

    Windows Servers Targeted for Cryptocurrency Mining via IIS Flaw

    Windows Servers Targeted for Cryptocurrency Mining via IIS Flaw
  8. mercurial

    1.5 billion files exposed by misconfigured servers, storage and cloud services

    1.5 billion sensitive files exposed by misconfigured servers, storage and cloud services
  9. mercurial

    Meltdown Patch Opened Bigger Security Hole on Windows 7

    Meltdown Patch Opened Bigger Security Hole on Windows 7
  10. mercurial

    Undetected for 6 years, sophisticated malware can spy on PCs through your router

    Undetected for 6 years, sophisticated malware can spy on PCs through your router
  11. mercurial

    Research Firm Audit Reveals Critical Flaws, Backdoors In Four AMD Processors

    Spectre/Meltdown Part Two? Research Firm Audit Reveals Critical Flaws, Backdoors In Four AMD Processors
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