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Windows Quietly Patches Bug That Could Reverse Meltdown, Spectre Fixes For Intel CPUs
Microsoft has fixed a “serious security flaw in Intel processors” that threatened to undo both companies’ work patching the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, Tom’s Guide reported on Wednesday.
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Report: NSO Group’s Pegasus Spyware Can Break Into Cloud Services, Transmit User Data To Server
Israeli spyware company NSO Group’s powerful Pegasus malware – the same spyware implicated in a breach of WhatsApp earlier this year – is capable of scraping a target’s data from the servers of Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, and Microsoft, according to a report in the Financial Times on Saturday.
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Serious Security Flaw With Teleconferencing App Could Allow Websites To Hijack Mac Webcams
On Monday, security researcher Jonathan Leitschuh publicly disclosed a serious zero-day vulnerability in conferencing software Zoom, which apparently achieves its click-to-join feature – allowing users to go directly to a video meeting from a browser link on Mac computers – by installing a local web server running as a background process that “accepts requests regular…
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At Least 10 Global Telecom Carriers Hacked In Suspected Chinese Espionage Campaign, Security Firm Says
Hackers believed to have ties to China’s government infiltrated the systems of at least 10 telecommunications companies around the globe, swiping swaths of data on the companies and targeted individuals, according to an investigation by cybersecurity firm Cybereason.