Foreshadow: What you need to know

The start of the year seemed to open with a bang on the cybersecurity news front. The Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities made headlines with fears that they could be as bad, if not worse, than the previous Heartbleed vulnerability that made its mark on CPUs previously. Since then every now and then news trickles in of a researcher having been able to exploit those vulnerabilities in slightly new ways. On August 14, 2018, news broke that researchers had discovered another vulnerability affecting Intel processors. The researchers who discovered the vulnerability have called it Foreshadow and have set up a website where users can gain more information including the paper they published. Currently, two research teams independently discovered the Foreshadow vulnerability and the L1 Terminal Fault vulnerability. A team from KU Leuven, a university in Belgium, informed Intel of its findings on January 3, the day when ...

Searchfort.online Redirect

searchfort.online is a fake web search engine that, according to the developers, enhances web browsing experience by generating improved search results. Initially, searchfort.online might appear completely appropriate and handy. However, it is worth mentioning that this site is promoted using a browser-hijacking application called Search App. What's more, both searchfort.online and Search App continually record various information relating to user's web browsing activity. Immediately after infiltration, Search App hijacks web browsers (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox) and assigns new tab URL, default search engine, and homepage options by assigning as searchfort.online. These changes aren't significant. However, users still are unable to revert them. Research discovered that searchfort.online continues to reassign browsers' options each time attempts to change them are made. For this re...