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Nasty bug with very simple exploit hits PHP just in time for the weekend

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Enlarge A critical vulnerability in the PHP programming language can be trivially exploited to execute malicious code on Windows devices, security researchers warned as they urged those affected to take action before the weekend starts. Within 24 hours of the vulnerability and accompanying patch being published, researchers from the …

Critical vulnerabilities in Exim threaten over 250k email servers worldwide

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images) Thousands of servers running the Exim mail transfer agent are vulnerable to potential attacks that exploit critical vulnerabilities, allowing remote execution of malicious code with little or no user interaction. The vulnerabilities were reported on Wednesday by Zero Day Initiative, but they largely escaped notice …

Firmware vulnerabilities in millions of computers could give hackers superuser status

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Enlarge (credit: Getty Images ) Two years ago, ransomware crooks breached hardware-maker Gigabyte and dumped more than 112 gigabytes of data that included information from some of its most important supply-chain partners, including Intel and AMD. Now researchers are warning that the leaked information revealed what could amount to critical …