Critical Flaw in All Blizzard Games Could Let Hackers Hijack Millions of PCs

The Hacker News Daily Updates Mitigating the DDoS Threat Cyber-hacktivism has become so prevalent that every online business, financial service, government agency, or critical infrastructure is likely a target. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Jan 23, 2018 Cybersecurity Certification Courses – CISA, CISM, CISSP The year 2017 saw some of the biggest cybersecurity incidents—from high profile data breaches in Equifax and Uber impacting millions of users to thousands of businesses and millions of customers being affected by the global ransomware threats like WannaCry and NotPetya. The year ended, but it did ... Read More Intel Warns Users Not to Install Its 'Faulty' Meltdown and Spectre Patches Don't install Intel's patches for Spectre and Meltdown chip vulnerabilities. Intel on Monday warned that you should stop deploying its current versions of Spectre/Meltdown patches, which Linux creator Linus Torvalds calls 'complete and utter garbage.' Spectre and Meltdown are security ... Read More Critical Flaw in All Blizzard Games Could Let Hackers Hijack Millions of PCs A Google security researcher has discovered a severe vulnerability in Blizzard games that could allow remote attackers to run malicious code on gamers' computers. Played every month by half a billion users—World of Warcraft, Overwatch, Diablo III, Hearthstone and Starcraft II are popular online ... Read More Nearly Half of the Norway Population Exposed in HealthCare Data Breach Cybercriminals have stolen a massive trove of Norway's healthcare data in a recent data breach, which likely impacts more than half of the nation's population. An unknown hacker or group of hackers managed to breach the systems of Health South-East Regional Health Authority (RHF) and reportedly ... Read More 15-Year-Old Schoolboy Posed as CIA Chief to Hack Highly Sensitive Information Remember "Crackas With Attitude"? A notorious pro-Palestinian hacking group behind a series of embarrassing hacks against United States intelligence officials and leaked the personal details of 20,000 FBI agents, 9,000 Department of Homeland Security officers, and some number of DoJ staffers in ... Read More Mitigating the DDoS Threat Cyber-hacktivism has become so prevalent that every online business, financial service, government agency, or critical infrastructure is likely a target. Download Now Sponsored This email was sent to balvistudio4.raaj@blogger.com. You are receiving this newsletter because you opted-in to receive relevant communications from The Hacker News. To manage your email newsletter preferences, please click here. Contact The Hacker News: info@thehackernews.com Unsubscribe The Hacker News | Pearls Omaxe, Netaji Subash Place, Pitampura, Delhi 110034 India