Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Bug.
A researcher has found that some network names can disable Wi-Fi on phones. More specifically, some names with the percent symbol in the names can disable Wi-Fi on iPhones and other iOS devices. Carl Schou tweeted this out saying that if an iPhone comes in a range of a network named %secretclub%... Read more
3 years ago
On Thursday, Google released a Chrome fix for a high-severity security problem in the browser. It is believed that the flaw was being exploited in the wild. The update will roll out in the coming days and weeks, according to Google’s blog post about the issue. Google has named the vulnerabilit... Read more
3 years ago
Security researchers have seen major Android apps vulnerable to a known flaw that gives attackers access to the users' phones and data. According to the research, the apps affected are some of the most used and well-known kind. The affected apps include Bumble, Grindr, OkCupid, Cisco Teams, Moov... Read more
3 years ago
Google found out that their latest versions of Chrome and Chrome OS had a zero-day security flaw. Google has a security team that is responsible for finding these vulnerabilities, named Project Zero. They found out that hackers were using the flaw to attack Chrome users. Google patched the flaw ... Read more
3 years ago
The Windows 10 feature update that was released in May of this year can brick your SSD. In this update the feature drive optimization was enabled, which uses defragmentation. Defragmentation is only good for hard disk drives (HDD) not for solid state drives (SSD). Microsoft released a large Wind... Read more
4 years ago
Sensitive data on Android phones could have been stolen by apps using a security vulnerability which is present on most Android devices. Oversecured, an app security startup, found a flaw in the widely used Play Core library that allows app developers to deploy in-app push updates and new featur... Read more
4 years ago
Windows 10 1809 users on a PC with a USB-C connection may experience a one-minute delay in shutting down their system. Microsoft confirms that. Philip Froese of Microsoft describes the problem in a blog post. The bug relates to Microsoft's implementation of Intel's USB Type-C Connector System Softwa... Read more
5 years ago
Microsoft has withdrawn this year's first updates to Office 2010. The company mainly received messages from Japan that the improved code caused Excel to stop working altogether. That probably has to do with changes that have been made to the way the Japanese calendar works. The updates were released... Read more
5 years ago
Over the past few months, Facebook has regularly come into disrepute about privacy issues. Now CEO Mark Zuckerberg can add another problem. The social network was found to have made a security failure, giving remote apps easy access to photos of up to 6.8 million users. Normally an app receives expl... Read more
5 years ago
A misconfigured Microsoft subdomain seems to have exposed the accounts of 400 million Office 365 users to a possible acquisition. That's what security researchers report, who found out that Microsoft hadn't properly secured a subdomain of Office.com. The error was discovered and reported by the Indi... Read more
5 years ago
