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Several High-Profile Accounts Hacked in the Biggest Twitter Hack of All Time

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Social media platform Twitter, earlier today on Wednesday, was on fire after it suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history.A number of high-profile Twitter accounts, including those of US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple, were breached simultaneously in what's a far-reaching hacking campaign carried out … [Read more...] about Several High-Profile Accounts Hacked in the Biggest Twitter Hack of All Time

New PHP Flaw Could Let Attackers Hack Sites Running On Nginx Servers

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If you're running any PHP based website on NGINX server and have PHP-FPM feature enabled for better performance, then beware of a newly disclosed vulnerability that could allow unauthorized attackers to hack your website server remotely.The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2019-11043, affects websites with certain configurations of PHP-FPM that is reportedly not uncommon in the … [Read more...] about New PHP Flaw Could Let Attackers Hack Sites Running On Nginx Servers

Researchers Discover New Ways to Hack WPA3 Protected WiFi Passwords

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The same team of cybersecurity researchers who discovered several severe vulnerabilities, collectively dubbed as Dragonblood, in the newly launched WPA3 WiFi security standard few months ago has now uncovered two more flaws that could allow attackers to hack WiFi passwords.WPA, or WiFi Protected Access, is a WiFi security standard that has been designed to authenticate wireless … [Read more...] about Researchers Discover New Ways to Hack WPA3 Protected WiFi Passwords

Just Opening A Document in LibreOffice Can Hack Your Computer (Unpatched)

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Are you using LibreOffice?You should be extra careful about what document files you open using the LibreOffice software over the next few days.That's because LibreOffice contains a severe unpatched code execution vulnerability that could sneak malware into your system as soon as you open a maliciously-crafted document file.LibreOffice is one of the most popular and open source … [Read more...] about Just Opening A Document in LibreOffice Can Hack Your Computer (Unpatched)

Beware! Playing Untrusted Videos On VLC Player Could Hack Your Computer

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If you use VLC media player on your computer and haven't updated it recently, don't you even dare to play any untrusted, randomly downloaded video file on it.Doing so could allow hackers to remotely take full control over your computer system.That's because VLC media player software versions prior to 3.0.7 contain two high-risk security vulnerabilities, besides many other … [Read more...] about Beware! Playing Untrusted Videos On VLC Player Could Hack Your Computer