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3 Critical Zero-Day Flaws Found in PHP 7 — One Remains Unpatched!

Three critical zero-day vulnerabilities have been discovered in PHP 7 that could allow an attacker to take complete control over 80 percent of websites which run on the latest version of the popular web programming language. The critical vulnerabilities reside in the unserialized mechanism in PHP 7 – the same …

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How Hackers Can Hack Your Chip-and-PIN Credit Cards

Now, a group of French forensics researchers have inspected a real-world case in which criminals played smart in such a way that they did a seamless chip-switching trick with a slip of plastic that it was identical to a normal credit card. The researchers from the École Normale Supérieure University …

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Tens of Thousands of Routers, IP Cams Infected by Vigilante Malware

The bot, dubbed by Symantec “Linux.Wifatch,” was first spotted in November 2014 when an independent researcher noticed some interesting processes on his home router. Symantec has been monitoring the threat since March 2015 and the security firm has been trying to solve the mystery of Wifatch ever since. Symantec researchers …

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