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Privilege Escalation, DoS Vulnerabilities Patched in Xen

09

Sep

2016

The Xen Project reported on Thursday that it has patched a total of four vulnerabilities that can be exploited for privilege escalation or denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. One of the flaws, described in the XSA-185 advisory and tracked as CVE-2016-7092, allows a malicious 32-bit PV (paravirtualization) guest administrator to escalate their privileges to that of the […]

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Data hoarders are shining a spotlight on past breaches

09

Sep

2016

Old data breaches carried out years ago are entering into the limelight thanks to anonymous internet users like Keen. Earlier this week, Keen, a data collector who runs the site Vigilante.pw, helped to uncover details about stolen data taken from the popular porn site Brazzers. A copy of almost 800,000 accounts, probably originally hacked back […]

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Yes, U.S. did hack Elysée Palace in 2012, French ex-spy says

09

Sep

2016

Bernard Barbier, a former head of the French signals intelligence service, shared a few stories with students of CentraleSupélec, the elite engineering school from which he graduated in 1976, at a symposium this summer. There was that time he caught the U.S. National Security Agency delving into computers at the Elysée Palace, residence of the […]

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