On Jan 25th 2022, a critical vulnerability aliased “PwnKit” or CVE-2021-4034 was publicly released. Polkit (formerly PolicyKit) is a component for controlling system-wide privileges in Unix-like operating systems. It provides an…
Credential theft has witnessed a meteoric rise in the past couple of years with the surge in remote work. Reports suggest over 4/5th of data breaches resulting from hacking involve the use, or misuse, of…
The most well-known kinds of biometric security are fingerprint recognition and iris scanning. However, face recognition and vein pattern recognition (on the finger and palm) are gaining prominence. This article…
When the COVID-19 pandemic broke out in 2020, communities all across the world were filled with dread and uncertainty. Governments enforced stay-at-home orders for their residents due to a dearth…
The BFSI ecosystem has been evolving rapidly - customer expectations are reaching newer heights; fintech companies are challenging conventional financial businesses with their innovations; and commercial objectives are changing at…
Many workers anticipate more flexible work alternatives as the pandemic begins to recede in various regions of the globe. Even then, according to a McKinsey report, 68 percent of firms…
Nobody imagined on January 1st, 2020, that the term "unprecedented" would become a cliché for everything that the year might bring. It's quite logical that the tectonic global shift towards…
On Dec 9th, a zero-day exploit in an open-source library named "Log4j" was made public. This library is very popular for creating logs by Java applications. The vulnerability is labelled as…
The digital transformation journey picked up pace during the pandemic with many organizations, not all by choice, accelerating their remote work adoption. Shifting from a reactive approach to a more…
OverviewA local privilege escalation vulnerability in Accops products for Windows OS was recently discovered and responsibly disclosed to Accops. It was reported by SentinelOne, which is a reputed global cybersecurity…
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