Last Win7 patchday but important!
Yesterday the official support for Windows 7
ended and with it the official support for an
OS that served us well for over ten years. But
Microsoft delivered one last important patch!
Yesterday the official support for Windows 7
ended and with it the official support for an
OS that served us well for over ten years. But
Microsoft delivered one last important patch!
Spectre strikes again! It seems as if Intel has no time to
rest. Has Spectre V1 been digested halfway, there’s some
new competitor hitting the floor: SplitSpectre! While the
decessor requires time-critical timing for attacks, the new…
Google Plus seems to be shut down definitely!
As it seems, the social media platform didn’t
succeed against Facebook as intended. In 2011
Google Plus was announced as an alternative.
Security leaks are always a nuisance. The 0day leak
that is shown below is a tool that allows access to
private Data, such as the Address Book and other
files of the user. And this without any prompts!
So Samsong is preparing the release of the new Note 9(+)!
Apparently the video is still online in youtube but it is now
released on another site because we all know that videos
get removed too quickly as such “accidents” are annoying!
Since the leak got public, every IT service provider is going crazy about
the heartbleed bug that is active with OpenSSL 1.0.1 to 1.0.1f. But what
exactly makes the heartbleed bug so dangerous? This website has com-
prehensive information available for those running OpenSSL.
Some funny incident happened at Reuters, where possibly a prepared news
block has been released without checking. In this case, George Soros is the
victim for, maybe wished, death. Well, george Soros still lives and is not
dead as the news block has written.
WhatsApp had to deal again with security problems. While the older
versions didn’t encrypt the message traffic at all, the newer versions used
an AES algorythm to encrypt the messages when sent. Yet the security
was weak as the key is based on the device’s IMEI and thus can be hacked.
It seems the popular WPS technology has another set-back to deal with! While
the setup of WPA-based encryption is safe in most scenarios, the handling with the
long security keys can be a real hassle. That’s why the WiFi consortium brought out
WPS which lets one set up WiFi-Connections by simply pairing a device with a code.
It ain’t a good day for Apple. Today, Charlie Miller has shown another exploit,
that could Apple bring some big problems. The reason: an unobtrusive stock
ticker app. The purpose (besides shoing stock tickers): Getting access to the
inner core applications and files of iDevices. No wonder, Apple striked back!