Technology

Hundreds of HP Printer Models Vulnerable to Remote Code Execution HP has published security advisories for three critical-severity vulnerabilities affecting hundreds of its LaserJet Pro, Pagewide Pro, OfficeJet, Enterprise, Large Format, and DeskJet printer models. The first security bulletin warns about about a buffer overflow flaw that could lead to Read more…

Android Trojan Persists on the Google Play Store Since January Security researchers tracking the mobile app ecosystem have noticed a recent spike in trojan infiltration on the Google Play Store, with one of the apps having over 500,000 installs and available to download. Most of these apps belong to a Read more…

2021 Mobile Security: Android More Vulnerabilities, iOS More Zero-days Mobile security company Zimperium has released its annual mobile threat report where security trends and discoveries in the year that passed lay the groundwork for predicting what’s coming in 2022.  In general, the focus of malicious actors on mobile platforms has Read more…

ProtonMail Urges Russian Users to Renew as Payment Options Dry Up ProtonMail is urging its Russian user base to hurry up and renew their subscriptions before it is too late, as multiple payment processing services including Mastercard, Visa, American Express, and PayPal, are exiting the Russian market. ProtonMail is a Read more…

Access:7 Vulnerabilities Impact Medical and IoT Devices A set of seven vulnerabilities collectively tracked as Access:7 have been found in PTC’s Axeda agent, a solution used for remote access and management of over 150 connected devices from more than 100 vendors. Three of the security issues received a severity score Read more…

Free Android App Lets Users Detect Apple AirTag Tracking A small team of researchers at the Darmstadt University in Germany have published a report illustrating how their AirGuard app for Android provides better protection from stealthy AirTag stalking than other apps. An Apple AirTag is a Bluetooth-based device finder released Read more…

Researchers Create Exploit for Critical Magento Bug, Adobe Updates Advisory Security researchers have created exploit code for CVE-2022-24086, the critical vulnerability affecting Adobe Commerce and Magento Open Source that Adobe that patched in an out-of-band update last Sunday. The vulnerability, which Adobe saw being “exploited in the wild in very limited attacks,” received Read more…

Dad Takes Down Town’s Internet by Mistake to Get His Kids Offline A French dad faces jail time and a hefty fine after using a signal jammer to prevent his kids from going online and taking the rest of a nearby town down with them. Starting at midnight and until Read more…

GitHub Code Scanning Now Finds More Security Vulnerabilities Code hosting platform GitHub today launched new machine learning-based code scanning analysis features that will automatically discover more common security vulnerabilities before they end up in production.  These new experimental static analysis features are now available for JavaScript and TypeScript GitHub repositories Read more…

Croatian Phone Carrier Data Breach Impacts 200,000 Clients Croatian phone carrier ‘A1 Hrvatska’ has disclosed a data breach exposing the personal information of 10% of its customers, roughly 200,000 people. The announcement does not provide many details other than that they suffered a cybersecurity incident involving the unauthorized access of Read more…