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10 Features You No Longer Need to Root Your Android Phone For
Quick Links Disable Preinstalled Apps Restart Your Phone With One Tap In the early “Wild West” days of Android, to really make your phone yours, you needed to root it. But times have changed. Many features that once required rooting are now baked right into Android or through third-party apps. 1 Take Screenshots It might seem crazy now, but taking…
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Cisco bug lets hackers run commands as root on UWRB access points
Cisco has fixed a maximum severity vulnerability that allows attackers to run commands with root privileges on vulnerable Ultra-Reliable Wireless Backhaul (URWB) access points that provide connectivity for industrial wireless automation. Tracked as CVE-2024-20418, this security flaw was found in Cisco’s Unified Industrial Wireless Software’s web-based management interface. Unauthenticated threat actors can exploit it in low-complexity command injection attacks that…
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QNAP patches second zero-day exploited at Pwn2Own to get root
QNAP has released security patches for a second zero-day bug exploited by security researchers during last week’s Pwn2Own hacking contest. This critical SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-50387, was found in QNAP’s SMB Service and is now fixed in versions 4.15.002 or later and h4.15.002 and later. The zero-day flaw was patched one week after allowing YingMuo (working with…
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