Nvidia patches graphics products and GeForce Experience update tool

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 11:58:11 +0000

The update fixes 11 mainly high-severity security flaws in Windows and GeForce graphics card drivers, including three in the program used to update them.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/dRHL2MrNvkw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Microsoft urges us to patch after partially effective BlueKeep attack

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 15:58:08 +0000

Microsoft has urged people to patch their Windows systems following the appearance of mass BlueKeep exploits just over a week ago.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/t3L4UyESmBg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Adobe fixes SDK weakness affecting mobile apps

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2019 12:13:21 +0000

Researchers noticed that the main app configuration file, ADBMobileConfig.json, contained settings that could lead to security problems.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/a-eEyz1mh7c” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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WordPress sites hit by malvertising

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 14:01:01 +0000

An old piece of malware is storming the WordPress community, enabling its perpetrators to take control of sites and inject code of their choosing.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/G42iCdpslDg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Linux users warned to update libarchive to beat flaw

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Thu, 07 Nov 2019 13:16:51 +0000

The bug is identified as CVE-2019-18408, a high-priority ‘use-after-free’ bug when dealing with a failed archive.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/r2L9Nrq5wnQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Smartphone and speaker voice assistants can be hacked using lasers

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2019 13:03:16 +0000

A US-Japanese team published a research paper which confirms an interesting and under-estimated possibility – these devices will also accept “signal injection” commands sent to them using pulses of laser light over distances of a hundred metres or more.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/_7WhfQGzceQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Office for Mac 2011 users warned about SYLK file format

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 17:14:21 +0000

Still running Office 2011 on a Mac? If so, there are at least two reasons why that might not be a good idea.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/HjBh551ovHI” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Google patches bug that let nearby hackers send malware to your phone

Credit to Author: Danny Bradbury| Date: Tue, 05 Nov 2019 14:42:47 +0000

Google has patched an Android bug that could have allowed attackers to use NFC to send over a malicious file to the victim’s phone<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/9svl-4gT4-I” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Have you updated your browser yet? Severe Chrome Zero-day vulnerability getting actively exploited

Credit to Author: Sushmita Kalashikar| Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:40:59 +0000

Attention! Are you using Chrome as your web browsing software on your Windows, Linux and Mac? High time you update your browser!! That’s right. With Google recently releasing Chrome version 78.0.3904.87 for Windows, Mac, and Linux, there come’s an urgent warning, requesting billions of users to update their software immediately. The warning comes after…

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