Catalin Cimpanu
Author Bio
Catalin Cimpanu was the Security News Editor for Bleeping Computer from November 2016 to August 2018.
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New Attack Recovers RSA Encryption Keys from EM Waves Within Seconds
A research paper presented at the Usenix security conference last week detailed a new technique for retrieving encryption keys from electronic devices, a method that is much faster than all previously known techniques.
- August 22, 2018
- 01:25 AM
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No Patch Available Yet for New Major Vulnerability in Ghostscript Interpreter
Tavis Ormandy, a Google Project Zero security researcher, has revealed details about a new major vulnerability discovered in Ghostscript, an interpreter for Adobe's PostScript and PDF page description languages.
- August 22, 2018
- 12:05 AM
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Mozilla to Remove Legacy Firefox Add-Ons From Add-On Portal in Early October
Mozilla announced today plans to remove all Firefox legacy add-ons from the official Mozilla add-ons portal later this year, in early October.
- August 21, 2018
- 01:40 PM
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Cloud Product Accidentally Exposes Users' TLS Certificate Private Keys
A severe issue was addressed on Monday, an issue that under certain conditions could be used to expose the private keys for TLS certificates used by companies running their infrastructure on cloud servers.
- August 21, 2018
- 12:25 PM
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MongoDB Server Exposes Babysitting App's Database
The makers of Sitter, a popular app for connecting babysitters with parents, have involuntarily exposed the personal details of over 93,000 users.
- August 21, 2018
- 10:28 AM
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Ryuk Ransomware Crew Makes $640,000 in Recent Activity Surge
A new ransomware strain named Ryuk is making the rounds, and, according to current reports, the group behind it has already made over $640,000 worth of Bitcoin.
- August 21, 2018
- 06:13 AM
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Microsoft Disrupts APT28 Hacking Campaign Aimed at US Midterm Elections
Microsoft revealed last night that it successfully disrupted a hacking campaign associated with the Russian military intelligence service GRU.
- August 21, 2018
- 03:43 AM
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Google Sued Over Misleading Location Tracking Setting
A San Diego man filed a lawsuit against Google last week, on Friday, accusing the Mountain View company of violating his privacy by secretly tracking his phone's location despite his an account setting through which he explicitly forbade the company to do so.
- August 20, 2018
- 07:01 PM
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Skype's End-to-End Encryption Goes Live
Support for end-to-end encrypted chats has landed in the stable versions of Skype for Windows, macOS, Linux, Android, and iOS.
- August 20, 2018
- 03:30 PM
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New "Turning Tables" Technique Bypasses All Windows Kernel Mitigations
Security researchers have discovered a new exploitation technique that they say can bypass the kernel protection measures present in the Windows operating systems.
- August 20, 2018
- 10:55 AM
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Twitch Glitch Exposed Some Users' Private Messages
Twitch is warning users of a bug in one of its recently retired features that may have exposed some of their messages to other users.
- August 20, 2018
- 04:16 AM
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JavaScript Web Apps and Servers Vulnerable to ReDoS Attacks
JavaScript web apps and web servers are susceptible to a specific type of vulnerabilities/attacks known as regular expression (regex) denial of service (ReDoS).
- August 20, 2018
- 01:00 AM
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Canadian Telcos Patch Vulnerability in TRS Systems
All major Canadian internet service providers (ISPs) have patched a vulnerability this week in their telecommunications relay services (TRSs).
- August 19, 2018
- 05:35 PM
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Number of Third-Party Cookies on EU News Sites Dropped by 22% Post-GDPR
The number of tracking cookies on EU news sites has gone down by 22% according to a report by the Reuters Institute at the University of Oxford, who looked at cookie usage across EU news sites in two phases, in April 2018 and July 2018, pre and post the introduction of the new EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
- August 19, 2018
- 08:40 AM
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China's National Cybersecurity Standards Considered a Risk for Foreign Firms
The Chinese government may use a collection of 300 so-called "national cybersecurity standards" to deter or sabotage the efforts of foreign tech firms trying to enter the Chinese market.
- August 17, 2018
- 06:17 PM
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