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Signal Secure Messaging App Introduces A New Feature Called "Sealed Sender" That Encrypts πŸ”’Sender's Identity Along with the Message βœ‰οΈ

https://thehackernews.com/2018/10/signal-secure-messaging-metadata.html …

Signal Aims to Further Reduce the Metadata Information That's Still Accessible to the Company.
Microsoft Windows 10 Built-in Defender Antivirus Becomes First #Antivirus to Have the Ability to Run Inside a Secure Sandbox

https://thehackernews.com/2018/10/windows-defender-antivirus-sandbox.html …

Here's How You Can Turn It ON.
IBM to Acquire "Red Hat" Open-Source Software Company for $34 Billion

https://thehackernews.com/2018/10/ibm-redhat-tech-acquisition.html …

One of the Largest Tech-Deals that Could Reshape the Future of Cloud Computing
Who says hacking is difficult! 🀣 It's fun.
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*NEW* β€” *NEW* β€” iPhone Passcode Bypass Discovered Just Hours After Apple Releases the Latest iOS 12.1

This easy-to-perform technique exploits the new Group FaceTime feature and works without Siri or VoiceOver.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/10/iphone-ios-passcode-bypass.html
Popular WooCommerce WordPress Plugin Patches A Critical File-Deletion Vulnerability That Could Allow Shop Managers to Reset Administrator Password and Take Complete Control Over the Site

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/woocommerce-wordpress-hacking.html
Multiple Vulnerabilities Discovered in Popular Samsung and Crucial's Self-Encrypting SSDs Let Attackers Bypass Hardware Encryption and Decrypt Data

Read More: https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/self-encrypting-ssd-hacking.html
Researchers Discover Another Hyper-Threading Vulnerability in Intel CPUs

New PortSmash (CVE-2018-5407) Side-Channel Attack Could Allow Malicious Processes to Steal Sensitive and Protected Data

Read More: https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/portsmash-intel-vulnerability.html
BleedingBit β€” Two New Critical #Bluetooth Chip RCE Vulnerabilities (CVE-2018-16986 and CVE-2018-7080) Expose Millions of BLE-Enabled Enterprise Networking Devices to Remote Attacks

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/bluetooth-chip-hacking.html
Unpatched Oracle's VirtualBox Zero-Day Vulnerability and Exploit Details Released Online:

Read ➣ https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/virtualbox-zero-day-exploit.html

New VirtualBox Exploit Could Allow Attackers to Escape Virtual Machines and Compromise Host Operating System.
Hackers compromised popular Web Traffic Analytics service "StatCounter" to steal Bitcoins from Gate[.]io cryptocurrency exchange users
. Malicious code bundled with the widely-used StatCounter analytics script gets injected into 700,000 websites, but targeted only cryptocurrency sites and their users.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/statcounter-cryptocurrency-cyberattack.html
New Android "In-app Updates" API Lets Developers Push Updates Within Their Apps Which Users Can Install While Using Them

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/android-in-app-updates-api.html
Popular drone maker DJI left its website and mobile apps users vulnerable for 6 months that could have allowed hackers to hijack Drone account and access sensitive dataβ€”including flight records, drone's location, live video feed and photos.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/dji-drone-hack_8.html
23-Year-Old "DerpTroll" Hacker Pleads Guilty to #DDoS Attacks Against Sony, EA and Steam Gaming Companies
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He Could Face Maximum Penalty of 10 Years in Prison and Fine of $250,000

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/gaming-server-ddos-attack.html
New SDK APIs and Wi-Fi settings in Insider Preview editions suggest that support for the latest WPA3 Wi-Fi Security Protocol is coming very soon to Windows 10 operating system

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/windows-10-wpa3-wifi-security.html
Yet Another #Facebook Bug Discovered That Could Have Exposed Private Information About You and Your Friends to Attackers

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/facebook-vulnerability-hack.html

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It’s Patch Tuesday β€” 63 New Vulnerabilities (Including 0-Days) #Windows Users Need to Patch Immediately

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/microsoft-patch-tuesday-updates.html

β€’ 12 Critical Flaws
β€’ 49 Importantβ€”2 Publicly Disclosed & 1 Being Exploited in the Wild
β€’ 1 Moderate
β€’ 1 Low Flaw
7 New #Meltdown and #Spectre-type Transient Execution Attacks Discovered Affecting Intel, AMD, ARM Processors



Read More β†’ https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/meltdown-spectre-vulnerabilities.html
Latest iPhone X, Samsung Galaxy S9, Xiaomi Mi6β€”all GET HACKED at Pwn2Own 2018 mobile hacking competition

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/mobile-hacking-exploits.html

White-hat hackers earned a total $325,000 bounty for finding 18 zero-day vulnerabilities
Critical flaw found in one of the popular Google #AMP (Accelerated Mobile Pages) plugins for #WordPress, installed by more than 100,000+ websites.

https://thehackernews.com/2018/11/amp-plugin-for-WordPress.html

"AMP for WP" patched version 0.9.97.20 has been released – UPDATE NOW