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News for August 22, 2022
Browser Extensions Malwareby Artie Kaye Browser extensions are addons to a browser which change the functionality. There are some that are designed to pose as legitimate offerings, even naming themselves as such. A malicious extension can function just like any other piece of malware, collecting cookies, harvesting personal information like passwords and user names, or…
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News for August 15, 2022
Unpatched Vulnerabilities High Value Targetsby Artie Kaye When it is recommended to patch, patch. The process may take a few minutes to a few hours depending on what is being done, but it potentially saves days of work recovering. Researchers at Kaspersky have released a report detailing what they’ve found regarding flaws and exploits. Microsoft…
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News for August 4, 2022
Kaspersky VPN Vulnerabilityby Artie Kaye A bug found in VPN Secure Connection released by Kaspersky has been made public. The bug functions as a local privilege-escalation which could give an attacker control over your machine. It is currently not seeing exploitation in the wild, but that typically changes soon after reports are made. If you…
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News Week Ending April 10, 2022
Chrome Patch Timeby Artie Kaye Another reminder to keep your software updated as google releases a patch for a 0-day bug in their Chrome browser. This bug allowed code to be run through the javascript engine. Update Chrome, anything after 99.0.4844.84. The severity of Chrome updates will be marked by green, yellow or red in…