Hackers Reveal Fully Operational Zero-Day Vulnerabilities

There is very little that can be considered more frustrating than realizing all your hard work has been made useless because of a silly mistake. This is probably what a group of hackers must be feeling at the moment. In this instance, the hackers appeared to have accidentally exposed two fully-working zero-days when they uploaded a weaponized PDF file to a public malware scanning engine. Unfortunately for the hackers, but fortunately for almost everyone else, security researchers at ESET discovered the potentially damaging zero-days and reported them. The first vulnerability affected Adobe’s PDF viewer and has been assigned the following Common Vulnerability and Exposure (CVE) number CVE-2018-4990 and has been patched. The second vulnerability, CVE-2018-8120, which if exploited targeted the Win32k component of Windows and was also recently patched. In a report published by Anton Cherepanov, the ESET research...

No Sound In YouTube. How To Fix It?

YouTube is the most popular video sharing service in the world where people can search for and watch videos, create their own YouTube channels and upload videos. Users can like, share and comment other YouTube videos, subscribe other YouTube channels and users and create their own playlists or stream videos live. YouTube is a free service that allows people to discover new things, learn and entertain, or even make money. Most videos has audio track as well and in some cases the audio is far more important than the video. If you are reading this, then most probably you have encountered a problem with being unable to hear sound (audio) in YouTube video. This is a quite common problem and many users have experienced this problem at some point. In order to solve this problem you may need to check and change the volume (audio) settings of your device, uninstall or update Adobe Flash Player, update or reinstall yo...

Search.hwatchallsports.co Redirect

According to the developers, the Watch All Sports application allows users watch various sport events live via the Internet. This functionality may seem legitimate and useful. However, the problem is that Watch All Sports is categorized as a potentially unwanted program (PUP) and a browser hijacker. The main reasons for these negative associations are installation with no permission, modification of web browsers' settings, and monitoring of user's web browsing activity. Watch All Sports is used to promote a fake web search engine - search.hwatchallsports.co. This browser hijacker targets Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, and Mozilla Firefox browsers. Immediately after infiltration, Watch All Sports assigns browsers' new tab URL, default search engine, and homepage options as search.hwatchallsports.co. Such changes may not seem significant. However, the problem is that users are unable to revert them. Res...