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Valve patches Steam exploit that allowed inflation of wallet funds

Usama Jawad — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 17:46:01 +0000

Valve has awarded a bounty of $7,500 to a person who identified a bug through which they could artificially inflate their wallets funds on Steam by changing the POST request via certain email IDs. Read more...

Microsoft releases mandatory Windows updates to fix PrintNightmare exploit [Update]

Abhay V — Tue, 06 Jul 2021 21:48:01 +0000

Microsoft has begun rolling out a mandatory update for the most recent Windows 10 versions - 2004, 20H2, and 21H1 - to patch the recently acknowledged PrintNightmare critical vulnerability. Read more...

Windows 10 bug lets malware bypass security scans using a null character

Muhammad Jarir Kanji — Mon, 19 Feb 2018 17:00:01 +0000

A bug in the Windows 10 Anti-Malware Scan Interface causes the security apparatus to truncate its scans when encountering a null character. The bug was fixed in this month's Patch Tuesday. Read more...