Apple recently unveiled its new iPhone 16 series with various improvements and the upcoming AI features. But that’s not all, the 2024 iPhones were showcased with changes in their design, with one of the biggest new inclusions being a dedicated camera button. We’ve seen this in the past on Android phones, but it is not as […]
StarCraft is one of Blizzard’s most well-revered franchises, and there hasn’t been any new content for the franchise since 2017, which is when the remastered version of StarCraft was released. Prior to that, the latest content was in 2016 for StarCraft II, adding an expansion to the game. During the Unlocked podcast, Jason Schreier joined them to […]
Under certain conditions, attackers can chain a set of vulnerabilities in multiple components of the CUPS open-source printing system to execute arbitrary code remotely on vulnerable machines. Tracked as CVE-2024-47076 (libcupsfilters), CVE-2024-47175 (libppd), CVE-2024-47176 (cups-browsed) and CVE-2024-47177 (cups-filters) and discovered by Simone Margaritelli, these security flaws don’t affect systems in their default configuration. CUPS (short for […]
A new variant of the RomCom malware called SnipBot, has been used in attacks that pivot on the network to steal data from compromised systems. Palo Alto Network’s Unit 42 researchers discovered the new version of the malware after analyzing a DLL module used in SnipBot attacks. The latest SnipBot campaigns appear to target a variety of […]
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a set of now patched vulnerabilities in Kia vehicles that, if successfully exploited, could have allowed remote control over key functions simply by using only a license plate. “These attacks could be executed remotely on any hardware-equipped vehicle in about 30 seconds, regardless of whether it had an active Kia Connect […]
WordPress.org has banned WP Engine from accessing its resources and stopped delivering plugin updates to websites hosted on the platform, urging impacted users to choose other hosting providers. The open-source project claims that the move comes in response to WP Engine’s alteration of a WordPress core feature for its own profit and its blocking of […]
A crypto draining app mimicking the legitimate ‘WalletConnect’ project has been distributed over Google Play for five months getting more than 10,000 downloads. The malicious app used the name WallConnect and posed as a lightweight Web3 tool with various blockchain functionalities, offering to act as a proxy between cryptocurrency wallets and decentralized applications (dApps). The real […]
HPE Aruba Networking has fixed three critical vulnerabilities in the Command Line Interface (CLI) service of its Aruba Access Points, which could let unauthenticated attackers gain remote code execution on vulnerable devices. The vulnerabilities (CVE-2024-42505, CVE-2024-42506, and CVE-2024-42507) can be exploited by sending specially crafted packets to the PAPI (Aruba’s Access Point management protocol) UDP port […]
The percentage of Android vulnerabilities caused by memory safety issues has dropped from 76% in 2019 to only 24% in 2024, representing a massive decrease of over 68% in five years. This is well below the 70% previously found in Chromium, making Android an excellent example of how a large project can gradually and methodically move to […]
The iconic Winamp media player has fulfilled a promise made in May and released its complete source code on GitHub, inviting developers to collaborate on the project. Winamp is a media player launched in 1997 by Nullsoft, which gained massive popularity in the following years, coinciding with the rise of MP3s music files. The player featured a […]
