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When Your Smart ID Card Reader Comes With Malware

Krebs on Security

“From the details you offered, issue may probably caused by your computer security defense system as it seems not recognized our rarely used driver & detected it as malicious or a virus,” Saicoo’s support team wrote in an email. “When driver installed, this message will vanish out of sight.

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Vulnerability Recap 8/12/24 – Old Vulnerabilities Unexpectedly Emerge

eSecurity Planet

Select “General” and then “Software Update.” Then, you’ll need to restart Edge as prompted to apply those software updates. The problem: This week, we have not one but two 18-year-old vulnerabilities: researchers at IOActive discovered a flaw in AMD central processing units that has existed in processors made as early as 2006.

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Vulnerability Recap 8/13/24 – Old Vulnerabilities Unexpectedly Emerge

eSecurity Planet

Select “General” and then “Software Update.” Then, you’ll need to restart Edge as prompted to apply those software updates. The problem: This week, we have not one but two 18-year-old vulnerabilities: researchers at IOActive discovered a flaw in AMD central processing units that has existed in processors made as early as 2006.

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Vulnerability Recap 7/8/24 – Intel, Cisco & More Face Risks

eSecurity Planet

These vulnerabilities affected diverse areas, including network infrastructure, software libraries, IoT devices, and even CPUs. It’s a regression of an 18-year-old flaw (CVE-2006-5051) that was reintroduced in October 2020. It supports unauthenticated remote code execution with root privileges.

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CSPM vs CWPP vs CIEM vs CNAPP: What’s the Difference?

eSecurity Planet

Another Solution to Consider: CASB (Cloud Access Security Broker) Bottom Line: Improve Your Organization’s Cloud Security Evolution of Cloud Security Solutions The cloud computing era began in 1999, when Salesforce proved the utility and popularity of SaaS (software as a service) applications with the launch of its CRM service.