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As it was being expected and reported for the past couple of months, the South Korean Winter Olympics was vulnerable to a hacking attack. This fear came true when the internet networks at the opening ceremony of the Pyeongchang Winter Olympics were paralyzed by a cyberattack in what seemed to be an effort to embarrass […]

The Italian cryptocurrency exchange BitGrail announced late last week that it was hacked and lost about 17 million Nano cryptocurrency (XRB, formerly known as RaiBlocks), currently worth over $160 million. Read more

Government websites were recently hacked in the UK in another case of cryptojacking. Cryptojacking is a process where hackers hack websites in order to mine cryptocurrencies. This has been one of the biggest problems in today’s world as such hacks have become very common, and some government websites recently became a victim of such attacks

The bug, if utilized, can increase a local unprivileged user to the full “system” level rights giving them passage to every edge of the operating system. But Microsoft, which owns the voice and video-calling service, said it won’t quickly fix the flaw because the bug would need too much work. Read more

According to News, the intern who took the code took it and shared it to a small group of five colleagues in the iOS jailbreaking community in order to help them with their continuing efforts to circumvent Apple’s secured down mobile operating system. Read more

Security holes found i smart TVs could lead to the exploitation of vulnerabilities in hundreds of thousands of Samsung and Roku products. This discovery was made after tests conducted by the Consumer Reports. According to them, even a unsophisticated hacker might be able to hack into a victim’s smart TV, even from miles away. Read

While Equifax had revealed that names, dates of birth, and Social Security estimates might have been endangered, as well as some drivers’ license numbers, the records reveal that the license state and date of issue of those licenses might have been endangered. Read more

Scumbags could, once upon a time, buy a remote access trojan called Luminosity Link for about $40, and get a piece of malware that, when installed on victims’ PCs, would spy on their activities, disable security software, and install further malicious code. Read more

Lenovo warned customers on Friday that two critical Broadcom vulnerabilities impacts 25 models of its popular ThinkPad brand. The vulnerabilities were first revealed in September and originally they were only reported to impact specific Broadcom chipsets used in Apple iPhones, Apple TV and Android devices. Read more

Cyber criminals can take complete control of a user’s system by utilizing a zero-day vulnerability in Adobe Flash Player. This seems to presently be an issue only in the Korean peninsula, but may spread to other places soon. Read more