DHS alert: Asus offers patch for hijacked Live Update Windows 10 utility
Asus recommends users install a new version of software that hijacked and delivered through its official website.
Asus recommends users install a new version of software that hijacked and delivered through its official website.
AMD bug hunters offer an alternative to Google's 90-day disclosure deadline.
Lenovo has warned customers to uninstall insecure software that comes pre-installed on dozens of its notebooks and desktop systems.
Microsoft has ploughed huge resources into securing Windows, but new research shows that five major PC makers are botching the security of pre-installed software.
Taiwan computer maker Asus must undergo independent security audits for the next 20 years as part of a settlement over the sale of insecure routers.
Home routers and other consumer embedded devices are plagued by basic vulnerabilities and can't be easily secured by non-technical users, which means they'll likely continue to be targeted in what has already become an increasing trend of mass attacks.
Lucian Constantin | 04 Apr | Read more
A group of attackers managed to compromise 300,000 home and small-office wireless routers, altering their settings to use rogue DNS servers, according to Internet security research organization Team Cymru.
Lucian Constantin | 04 Mar | Read more
The Windows 8 Secure Boot mechanism can be bypassed on PCs from certain manufacturers because of oversights in how those vendors implemented the Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI) specification, according to a team of security researchers.
Lucian Constantin | 02 Aug | Read more
Security researchers from Croatia-based security firm DefenseCode claim to have found a critical remote code execution vulnerability in the UPnP (Universal Plug and Play) implementation developed by Broadcom and used by many routers with Broadcom chipsets.
Lucian Constantin | 01 Feb | Read more