Varenyky is the name of a trojan which operates as a spambot. It is known that this malicious software if installed, records the victim’s screen when a website containing adult content like pornography is being visited. Same applies to some pages with keywords related to sex.
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In a newly-confirmed Black Hat USA Briefing on HTTP Desync Attacks: Smashing into the Cell Next Door, security researcher James Kettle introduce techniques remote, unauthenticated attackers can use to splice their HTTP requests into others.
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Bluetooth is a high-speed but very short-range medium for exchanging data by wireless means between desktop and mobile computers, smartphones, tablets, PDAs (Personal Digital Assistants), and other devices that support the technology.
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The SWAPGS vulnerability is a speculative execution side-channel vulnerability that allows bad actors to read data from privileged memory. In order to increase performance in CPUs, a feature called speculative execution will execute instructions before it knows if they are needed or not. Vulnerabilities that target this feature are called side-channel attacks.
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CryptoLocker, a new and nasty piece of malicious software is infecting computers around the world – encrypting important files and demanding a ransom to unlock them. According to Sophos, the worldwide digital security company, it’s been hitting pretty hard for the past six weeks or so. “It systematically hunts down every one of your personal
