All posts by Patrick Domingues
Identity Thieves Pushing New Chase Phishing Scams
Identity thieves continually develop new ways to obtain your personal information. I personally have gotten the latest Phishing email scam these thieves are using. Looks like these Hackers didnt stop at just hacking Chase but now also taking advantage of the Chase breach to do more harm to people. This email is not legitimate. If…
Millions of Qualcomm based Android Smartphones Vulnerable
Security researchers from Tencent’s Blade Team released a notice that the Qualcomm chipset exposes millions of android smartphones to hackers. Any user with a tablet or phone that uses this cpu is effected by the flaw called QualPwn. The bug allows attackers to take control of the phones remotely by crafting special packets that are…
Windows Actively Exploited Privilege-Escalation Bugs
The software giant recently released important-level patches for two of the privilege-escalation vulnerabilities in Win32k and splwow64, which are being actively exploited in the wild. Qualys said that the patches, though labeled as important, should be quickly deployed as they could be chained with other vulnerabilities to provide the hacker with complete system access. In…
Mac Users Affected by Zero-Day Webcam Hijacking
The Mac Zoom Client allows any malicious website to enable your camera without your permission. The flaw potentially exposes up to 4 million workers that use the Zoom for Mac web-and videoconferencing service. According to a researcher Jonathan Leitschuh (he noted that Mac users make up about 10 percent of Zoom’s customer base of 4+…
Dell SupportAssist Software Is Vulnerable To Remote Hacker
Millions of Dell PCs that have the SupportAssist software installed are vulnerable to a remote hacker to completely taking over your computer. The high-severity vulnerability (CVE-2019-12280) is defective coding in a component in SupportAssist. This software is Dell’s monitoring software which is pre-installed on all PCs. The software can automatic detect failure and notify you of…
Linux servers under worm attacks via latest Exim flaw
It didn’t take very long for Hackers to start exploiting this flaw, the recently revealed Exim vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149). An initial wave of attacks on this vulnerability – which involved attackers pushing out exploits from a malicious command-and-control (C2) server – was first discovered June 9 by researcher Freddie Leeman. “Just detected the first attempts to exploit…
SSD 2.5 to 3.5 Passive Heat dissipation Hard Drive Adapter
2.5 to 3.5 Hard Drive Adapter: Turns your 2.5in SATA HDD / SSD into 3.5in so you can install it into your desktop PC for Passive Heat Cooling High Speed, Excellent Performance: SATA III supports a theoretical maximum speed of 6Gbps, also backward compatible with SATA I/II Good Heat Dissipation: The side slots and open…
Point-Of-Sale Malware Found at 102 Checkers Restaurants
Checkers Restaurants suffered a cyber security breach according to a report by ZD Net, the company found Point-Of-Sale malware in 102 Checkers and Rally’s locations. The Checkers released statement emphasizes that “not all Checkers and Rally’s restaurants were affected by this issue.” The business also announced that the Point-Of-Sale malware did not affect all…
File Server Migration While Keeping OLD and NEW HostName
Here is a complete guide on how to migrate Windows File Server 2008 or 2012 and 2016 while keeping the OLD and New HostName destinations on the new server. Step 1 : Stand up your new file server, mine is called FS2. Step 2 : Make sure to keep the same folder structure if possible…
Since 2005 some Google G Suite passwords were stored in plaintext
Google says that there were a number of its enterprise customers since 2005 have had their Google G Suite passwords stored in plaintext. G Suite, Google’s brand of cloud computing, software, productivity and collaboration tools has more than 5 million users as of February. Google said that it recently discovered the passwords for a…