Catalin Cimpanu
Author Bio
Catalin Cimpanu was the Security News Editor for Bleeping Computer from November 2016 to August 2018.
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Researchers Disclose New Foreshadow (L1TF) Vulnerabilities Affecting Intel CPUs
Academics and private sector researchers have revealed details today about three new vulnerabilities affecting Intel CPUs.
- August 14, 2018
- 02:28 PM
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Adobe Patches Flash Player, Acrobat, Reader, Creative Cloud Desktop App, More
A few minutes ago, Adobe published its monthly Patch Tuesday updates train for the month of August 2018. This month, Adobe's security team patched vulnerabilities in products such as Flash Player (multimedia player), Experience Manager (enterprise CMS), Acrobat and Reader (PDF readers/editors), and the Creative Cloud Desktop App.
- August 14, 2018
- 10:20 AM
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Hackers Can Falsify Patient Vitals
Hackers can falsify patients' vitals by emulating data sent from medical equipment clients to central monitoring systems, a McAfee security researcher revealed over the weekend at the DEF CON 26 security conference.
- August 14, 2018
- 06:46 AM
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Built-In Lazy Loading Lands in Google Chrome Canary
As Bleeping Computer first reported back in January this year, Google has started rolling out support for built-in lazy loading inside Chrome.
- August 14, 2018
- 03:55 AM
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Cisco Patches Its Operating Systems Against New IKE Crypto Attack
Cisco, one of the world's largest vendor of networking equipment, released security updates today to patch a vulnerability in the IOS and IOS XE operating systems that run the vast majority of its devices.
- August 13, 2018
- 05:34 PM
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Vulnerabilities in Fax Protocol Let Hackers Infiltrate Networks via Fax Machines
Two recently discovered vulnerabilities in the fax protocol can transform fax machines into entry points for hackers into corporate networks, two Check Point researchers revealed last week in a talk given at the DEF CON 26 security conference held in Las Vegas.
- August 13, 2018
- 12:19 PM
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Popular Android Apps Vulnerable to Man-in-the-Disk Attacks
Some of the most popular Android applications installed on your phone may be vulnerable to a new type of attack named "Man-in-the-Disk" that can grant a third-party app the ability to crash them and/or run malicious code.
- August 13, 2018
- 08:50 AM
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Backdoor Mechanism Discovered in VIA C3 x86 Processors
At the DEF CON 26 security conference held in Las Vegas last week, a security researcher detailed a backdoor mechanism in x86-based VIA C3 processors, a CPU family produced and sold between 2001 and 2003 by Taiwan-based VIA Technologies Inc.
- August 13, 2018
- 04:48 AM
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Vulnerabilities Found in the Firmware of 25 Android Smartphone Models
Last week, at the DEF CON security conference held in Las Vegas, security researchers presented details about 47 vulnerabilities in the firmware and default apps of 25 Android smartphone models, 11 of which are also sold in the US.
- August 12, 2018
- 06:11 PM
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GandCrab Ransomware Author Bitter After Security Vendor Releases Vaccine App
The author of the GandCrab ransomware is a little bit bitter at South Korean security vendor AhnLab after the security firm released a vaccine for the GandCrab ransomware.
- August 03, 2018
- 10:24 AM
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Jury Convicts Anonymous Hacker Who DDoSed Children's Hospital, Later Got Lost at Sea
A member of the Anonymous hacker collective was found guilty this week in a trial for a series of cyber-attacks the man had conducted in 2014, including some aimed at children's hospitals.
- August 02, 2018
- 11:00 AM
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Microsoft Edge Flaw Lets Hackers Steal Local Files
Microsoft has fixed a vulnerability in the Edge browser that could be abused against older versions to steal local files from a user's computer.
- August 02, 2018
- 07:00 AM
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Massive Coinhive Cryptojacking Campaign Touches Over 200,000 MikroTik Routers
Security researchers have unearthed a massive cryptojacking campaign that targets MikroTik routers and changes their configuration to inject a copy of the Coinhive in-browser cryptocurrency mining script in some parts of users' web traffic.
- August 02, 2018
- 04:37 AM
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G Suite Can Now Alert You of Government-Backed Attacks
Google announced today that administrators of G Suite accounts can now enable and configure a special alert when a government-backed cyber-espionage group is trying to hack into one of their company's user accounts.
- August 01, 2018
- 07:30 PM
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US Charges Three Members of FIN7 (Carbanak) Hacker Group
The US Department of Justice announced today charges against three Ukrainian nationals believed to be members of the infamous FIN7 (Carbanak or Cobalt) hacker group.
- August 01, 2018
- 06:24 PM
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