Zero-Day exploit allows file overwriting on Windows
A new zero-day vulnerability has been disclosed for the Windows operative system. This is the fourth exploit disclosed in just as many months by the security researcher under the alias of SandboxEscaper. She first announced on December 25 that on New Year she would release publicly the PoC for a new bug in Windows, however […]
EU approves bug bounty programs for 15 open source projects
The European Union will be funding bug bounty programs for 15 open source projects starting January 2019, announced EU Parliament Member Julia Reda. The initiative is part of the third edition of the Free and Open Source Software Audit (FOSSA) project, and targeting some major Open Source projects in the market. The FOSSA project came […]
Security Flaw discovered on Electron-Based Apps
Electron (formerly Atom Shell) is an open-source framework developed and maintained by GitHub. Electron allows building cross-platform desktop applications with web technologies such as HTML, CSS and JavaScript, by combining the Chromium rendering engine and Node.js into a single runtime. Electron is widely used, with Apps built on top of it including Microsoft Visual Studio […]
Google forces Android security patches roll-out
During this week’s Google I/O 2018 event at the Shoreline Amphitheatre, an outdoor venue in Mountain View, California, the company announced a great number of changes and new features, like the release of the Android P Beta Program, new Google Assistant features, changes in Gmail and many others. Security is a trending topic, and Google, […]
How to solve ‘DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery’ in CentOS
While rolling out updates on some servers, and without apparent reason, as yum hadn’t failed or thrown any errors before, it failed with DB_RUNRECOVERY: Fatal error, run database recovery: YUM is failing and not accepting any command. While the reason for my YUM database corruption isn’t known, the solution is quite simple and easy to […]
FBI paid Best Buy’s Geek Squad to pass private customer data
Last tuesday the Electronic Frontier Foundation posted the records regarding a Freedom of Information lawsuit filled last year, revealing that federal agents would pay Geek Squad managers who’d then pass on information about illegal contents on devices sent in by customers for repairs. According to the documents released as a result of the lawsuit, this relationship […]
Faulty npm update crashes thousands of Linux Systems
npm, a widely well-known and vastly popular package manager for the JavaScript programming language, packed with the runtime environment Node.js, that includes a command-line client (npm), packed a critical bug on it’s latest npm v5.7.0 update. This bug was found and first reported on GitHub only three hours after the update was released. According to Jared […]
Google pushes AMP to emails
Google’s AMP – Accelerated Mobile Pages – is framework developed by Google that aims to be the de facto open standard for publishing pages for mobile devices. This is a publishing technology that allows developers to create pages that load almost instantly on mobile devices. Since its launch in 2016, over 25 million domains have […]
Crypto rush boosting GPU prices as market soars
Crypto currencies such as Bitcoin – the digital gold – and others like Ethereum, Ripple, Litecoin and others have soared beyond expectation as investors keep being drawn to it. This trend has pushed a massive interest in mid or high-end graphics, mainly from cryptocurrency miners, but also by companies all around the world for the […]
CentOS 7 – Install And Configure ClamAV
Clam AntiVirus (commonly ClamAV) is a free, cross-platform and open-source antivirus software toolkit able to detect many types of malicious software, including viruses. One of its main uses is on mail servers as a server-side email virus scanner. Despite the myth, Linux operative systems do get troubled with Virus. They can take down your website, […]