Unpatched MS Word Flaw Could Allow Hackers to Infect Your Computer

The Hacker News Daily Updates 5 Preventable Human Errors that Leave Your Company Vulnerable to a Cyberattack Business owners and Executive Management have a lot on their plate, including finding ways to protect their data and IT systems from hackers and scammers. Download Now Sponsored LATEST NEWS Oct 30, 2018 Unpatched MS Word Flaw Could Allow Hackers to Infect Your Computer Cybersecurity researchers have revealed an unpatched logical flaw in Microsoft Office 2016 and older versions that could allow an attacker to embed malicious code inside a document file, tricking users into running malware onto their computers. Discovered by researchers at Cymulate, the bug abuses ... Read More Signal Secure Messaging App Now Encrypts Sender's Identity As Well Signal, the popular end-to-end encrypted messaging app, is planning to roll out a new feature that aims to hide the sender's identity from potential attackers trying to intercept the communication. Although messages send via secure messaging services, like Signal, WhatsApp, and Telegram, are fully ... Read More Windows Built-in Antivirus Gets Secure Sandbox Mode – Turn It ON Microsoft Windows built-in anti-malware tool, Windows Defender, has become the very first antivirus software to have the ability to run inside a sandbox environment. Sandboxing is a process that runs an application in a safe environment isolated from the rest of the operating system and ... Read More IBM Buys "Red Hat" Open-Source Software Company for $34 Billion It's been quite a year for the open source platforms. Earlier this year, Microsoft acquired popular code repository hosting service GitHub for $7.5 billion, and now IBM has just announced the biggest open-source business deal ever. IBM today confirmed that it would be acquiring open source Linux ... Read More New Privilege Escalation Flaw Affects Most Linux Distributions An Indian security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora. Xorg X server is a popular open-source implementation of the X11 system (display server) that offers ... Read More 5 Preventable Human Errors that Leave Your Company Vulnerable to a Cyberattack Business owners and Executive Management have a lot on their plate, including finding ways to protect their data and IT systems from hackers and scammers. 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