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Any Unprivileged User Can Gain Root Privileges On A Linux System Using A Default Sudo Configuration

The research team of Qualys, recently found a vulnerability in sudo, dubbed as the heap overflow vulnerability. Sudo is an omnipresent and powerful open-source utility that is mainly utilized on operating systems like Unix and Linux. This vulnerability has been registered as CVE-2021-3156. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow any unauthorized user, without any permissions, to…
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Iranian Whatsapp Users Migrate To Signal, Government Blocks It

The government of Iran has now blocked the trendy messaging app “Signal”, right after users migrate to it from Whatsapp. Much the same as the residents of different nations, Iranians too downloaded Signal after security/privacy worries with Facebook and WhatsApp peaked. Clients across the world shifted to Signal and Telegram in reaction to WhatsApp’s new…
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Use SMTP TLS Reporting And MTA-STS To Intensify Your Email Security

When SMTP was first determined, in 1982, it didn’t contain any component for giving security at the transmission level to ensure the safety of interchanges between mail transfer agents. The STARTTLS command was introduced to SMTP in 1999, which thus upheld the encryption of emails in the middle of the servers, giving the capacity to…
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C-Suites Suffer Targeted Phishing Attacks

High-ranking company executives, generally known as C-Suites, from industries of real estate, government, finance, technology, and manufacturing are being widely targeted by specific developing phishing scam/operation which is under observation from around May 2020. This phishing scam involves a social engineering method/trick in which, the cybercriminals send fake emails to their targeted C-suites, claiming that…
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Exploited In The Wild, 3 iOS Zero-Day Vulnerabilities Revealed By Apple

Updates of iOS, iPadOs, and tvOS have been released by Apple, on Tuesday, which includes patches/fixes for three vulnerabilities, that Apple believes, which could have been exploited in the wild quite often. The three vulnerabilities have been registered, as CVE-2021-1782, CVE-2021-1870, and CVE-2021-1871, and were capable of serving a hacker/attacker to escalate privileges and gain…
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A Vulnerability Of TikTok May Have Leaked User’s Personal Profile Information Including Phone Numbers

On Tuesday, cybersecurity analysts unveiled a presently fixed security imperfection in TikTok that might have conceivably empowered a hacker to construct an information base of the application’s clients and their related mobile numbers for future noxious actions. Albeit this blemish just affects those clients who may have connected a mobile number with their record or…
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A New Android Malware Capable Of Spreading Itself Via WhatsApp

A newfound malware targeting Android has been found to spread itself through WhatsApp messages to different contacts to grow what gives off an impression of being an adware crusade. ESET analyst Lukas Stefanko explains that this malware spreads through casualty’s WhatsApp via consequently answering to any WhatsApp message received with a connection (a link) to…
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Former Employee Of Tesla Alleged Of Thieving About 26,000 Confidential Documents

Tesla is suing a previous individual from staff for supposedly taking secret data and endeavoring to cover his tracks in the result. The claim, recorded in the US Northern District of California Court, names Alex Khatilov as the supposed culprit, a Quality Assurance computer programmer. As per Tesla’s grumbling, just a short time subsequent to…
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Why Continuous Security Validation Is Crucial Nowadays ?

The Customary method of security validation is quite unpredictable and difficult which includes a progression of tests to decide whether controls are functioning as they are intended to do. It is a fastidious cycle that can fill the proposed needs. Notwithstanding, at the rate cyber assaults are expanding and developing, associations can’t stand to settle…
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During The Renewal Of Nuclear Treaty, Biden Ordered A Sweeping Assessment For The Russian Hack

President Joe Biden ordered a general audit on Thursday of American insight about Russia’s job in a profoundly modern hack of government and corporate PC networks, alongside what his representative called Moscow’s wild and antagonistic activities around the world and against nonconformists inside the country. Simultaneously, White House authorities said that the president would look…
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