AMD Acknowledges Vulnerabilities, Will Roll Out Patches In Coming Weeks
AMD on Tuesday acknowledged several vulnerabilities that had been reported in its Ryzen and EPYC chips, and said that it would roll out PSP firmware patches in the coming week.
Cloud Security
New Microsoft Bug Bounty Program Looks To Squash The Next Spectre, Meltdown
Microsoft is looking to target new speculative execution side channel vulnerabilities – similar to Spectre and Meltdown – with a new bug bounty program.
Walmart Jewelry Partner Exposes Personal Data Of 1.3M Customers
A Walmart jewelry partners’ misconfigured AWS S3 bucket left personal details and contact information of 1.3 million customers in plain sight.
Samba released fixes for its networking software to address two critical vulnerabilities that allowed attackers to change admin password or launch DoS attacks.
Hanwha is patching 13 vulnerabilities in its SmartCam security camera that allows attackers to take control of the device, use it to gain further network access or just brick it.
Report outlines lucrative rise of nefarious cryptomining groups and their complex new business models.
This week’s DDoS attack against GitHub is a harbinger of attacks to come that will use the highly effective memcached amplification technique, say experts.
Firmware versions of HPE’s remote management hardware iLO3 have an unauthenticated remote denial of service vulnerability.
Over the past few days researchers say DDoS attacks have been using memcached servers to amplify DDoS attacks using UDP-based packets.
A security researcher found Coinhive code hidden on a Los Angeles Times’ webpage that was secretly using visitors’ devices to mine cryptocurrency.
