2016
VeraCrypt Patches Vulnerabilities Following Audit
A recently conducted security assessment of VeraCrypt has revealed over 25 security vulnerabilities in the popular encryption platform, including a c…
Ondřej Surý replaces Ondřej Filip in the Board of the international domain name analysis and researc
Ondřej Filip served in the DNS-OARC organization’s governing body since 2010, also as its Chairman since 2012. Ondřej Filip could not be re-elected t…
The Cyber Europe 2016 Exercise Took Place Under the Auspices of CZ.NIC
Every two years, the European agency ENISA organizes a pan-European cyber exercise Cyber Europe.
Every two years, the European agency ENISA organizes …
SSHowDowN Proxy attacks – A 12-Year-Old SSH bug exposes more than 2M IoT Devices
Akamai Technologies revealed that hackers are exploiting a 12-year-old bug in OpenSSH to hack into millions of IoT devices with SSHowDowN Proxy attac…
Polyglot ransomware decryption tool released
Kaspersky Lab experts have released a Polyglot ransomware decryption tool, which enables users who have suffered from this ransomware, also known as …
CVE-2016-6406 – CISCO reported a critical flaw in email security appliances (ESA)
Cisco issued a security advisory about a vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2016-6406, affecting the Email Security Appliance Internal Testing Interface.
Multiple Backdoors found in D-Link DWR-932 B LTE Router
D-Link DWR-932B LTE router is allegedly vulnerable to over 20 issues, including backdoor accounts, default credentials, leaky credentials, firmware u…
“NoMoreRansom” project
Law enforcement and IT Security companies have joined forces to disrupt cybercriminal businesses with ransomware connections. In this case, we are re…
Siemens Patches Flaw in SCALANCE Products
A firmware update released by Siemens this month for some of its industrial network security products fixes a vulnerability that could expose potenti…
Facebook releases Osquery Security Tool for Windows
OSquery, an open-source framework created by Facebook that allows organizations to look for potential malware or malicious activity on their networks…
Firefox 49 Patches Critical, High Severity Vulnerabilities
Mozilla has patched many critical and high severity vulnerabilities this week with the release of Firefox 49, including a recently disclosed certific…
Mozilla will fix the cross-platform RCE flaw that threatened Tor anonymity
Mozilla plans to release a Firefox update to address the cross-platform remote code-execution vulnerability recently patched in the Tor browser.
The …
Serious Flaws Found in Cisco WebEx Meetings Server
Cisco has released software updates for its WebEx Meetings Server product to address a couple of critical and high severity vulnerabilities that can …
Critical MySQL Zero-Day
An independent research has revealed multiple severe MySQL vulnerabilities. This advisory focuses on a critical vulnerability with a CVEID of CVE-…
Bugfix version of WordPress released
WordPress 4.6.1 is now available. This is a security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately…
"Pokémons" strike again: Linux rootkit called "Umbreon"
Security analyst Graham Cluley published description of new linux rootkit "Umbreon", using some kind of "stealth technology" to hide itself from sc…
Malware Delivered via '.pub' Files
While searching for new scenarios to deliver their malwares[1][2], attackers launched a campaign to deliver malicious code embedded in Microsoft Publ…
Many Cisco Devices Still Vulnerable to NSA-Linked Exploit
Tens of thousands of devices running Cisco’s Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) software are still vulnerable to attacks leveraging an exploit leaked …
Mirai Linux Backdoor Targets IoT Devices
A newly observed Linux Trojan backdoor is actively targeting Internet of Things (IoT) devices and enjoying very low detection rate, even on systems u…
Telnet still alive – alespoň na „chytrých“ zařízeních
Article published on blog.nic.cz describes surprisingly high telnet traffic on internet, caused in majority by insecured smart devices (IoT devices).
Dropbox: Massive account data leak
Server The hacer news has published an [article]https://thehackernews.com/2016/08/dropbox-data-breach.html) about massive leak od Dropbox credential…
7 Database Security Best Practices
Database security has never been more important, given the high value hackers place on data. These database security best practices will help protect…
Opera Browser Sync Service Hacked; Users' Data and Saved Passwords Compromised
Opera Software reported a security breach last night, which affects all users of the sync feature of its web browser. So, if you’ve been using Ope…
New ransomware Alma: analysis and decryptor
A new type of ransomware, dubbed Alma, was recently observed being distributed via the RIG exploit kit. Researchers at PhishLabs have analyzed Alma ,…
DetoxCrypto - new ransomware-as-a-service
DetoxCrypto ransomware is raising suspicions that a new ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) affiliate program might be in the works.
New vulnerabilities of remote car locking systems
Researchers published two attack schemes against car locking systems utilizing radio device. These attack schemes are related to hundreds of millions…
Secure Boot Vulnerability of Windows Devices
Secure Boot Bypass Allows Hackers to Load Bootkits/Rootkits on Windows Devices. Microsoft has been attempting to patch a serious Secure Boot vuln…
Juniper Starts Fixing IPv6 Processing Vulnerability
Juniper Networks released hotfixes this week to address a vulnerability in its JUNOSe software. The issue, related to the processing of IPv6 packets,…
Over 900 mil. smartphones vulnerable
According to article on The Hacker news server vulnerability called "Quadrooter" applies to cellphones using Qualcomm chipset. You can check your dev…
Vulnerabilities of UPC home gateways
New article on blog.nic.cz regarding the resulst of pentesting of home gateways provided by hungarian UPC.
Google Patches 10 Vulnerabilities in Chrome 52
Google announced new update of Google Chrome 52. This update fixing 10 security issues, will be available to the public in next few days.
Critical Flaws Found in CISCO Small Business Routers
CISCO announced critical flaws in their products: RV110W, RV130W and RV215W routers include a default account that can be leveraged by an attacker to…
Google to deploy HSTS on their server
Google deployed HSTS to further improve security of their services. For full info see original announce by Google Inc.
CZ.NIC Publications released another book on open source
Twelve case studies in which the authors describe methods and tricks to improve the performance of open source applications, this is what readers can…
Argentina introduced the Czech system FRED for the administration of its internet domains
The Argentinian national domain registry will use the Czech registration system FRED (Free Registry for ENUM and Domains) for the administration of i…
SMS-based 2-factor authentication secure no more.
The hackernews published an article about new NIST standard, declaring SMS- baset 2-factor authentication not to be secure any more. The insecurity …
PowerWare - Locky's silly brother-in-law
Palo Alto's researchers have created a decrypter for the variant of the PoshCoder ransomware that imitates the Locky ransomware. Dubbed PowerWare …
Bart ransomware decryptor available
AVG releases free decryptor for data encrypted by rensomware Bart. All you need is both encrypted and unencrypted version of the same file. So if you…
Chrome 52 Patches 48 Vulnerabilities
Google on Wednesday released Chrome 52 in the stable channel and revealed that no less than 48 security vulnerabilities were resolved in the popular …
Persistent XSS Patched in WooCommerce WordPress Plugin
An update released this week by the developers of WooCommerce, the popular ecommerce plugin for WordPress, patches a flaw that could allow attackers …
Hacking Apple devices with just a Message exploiting the CVE-2016-4631
This critical flaw CVE-2016-4631 resides in the ImageIO and could be exploited by a remote attacker to steal sensitive information from Apple devices…
OpenSSH affected by a user enumeration bug
By sending large passwords, a remote user can enumerate users on system that runs SSHD. This problem exists in most modern configuration due to t…
Millions of Xiaomi Smartphone vulnerable to remote hacking
Millions of Xiaomi smartphone are affected by a critical remote code execution flaw that could be exploited by hackers to take over the mobile device…
3 Popular Drupal Modules Found Vulnerable — Patch Released
Just yesterday, I wrote a warning article announcing that Drupal – the popular open source content management system – will release patches for sever…
CVE-2016-3238 Windows flaw allows to hack companies via printers
Experts consider the CVE-2016-3238 flaw the most dangerous vulnerability of the year because it is really easy to execute and have a significant impa…
Downloading Pokémon GO Game for Android? Beware! It Could be Malicious...
Security researchers have warned users that many of these online tutorials are linked to malicious versions of the Pokémon Go app that install a back…
Persistent XSS in All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin
A stored Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability was found in the Bot Blocker functionality of the All in One SEO Pack WordPress Plugin (1+ million active…
Hacker breached an Amazon server containing 80,000 login credentials
The hacker behind the Twitter account 0x2Taylor is claiming to have breached one of the Amazon servers containing 80,000 login credentials of Kindle …
Apache Update: TLS Certificate Authentication Bypass with HTTP/2 (CVE-2016-4979)
Apache released an important update today to fix a vulnerability that affects servers that have http/2 enabled and use TLS client certificates for au…
Critical vulnerabilities open Symantec customers to remote hack
Symantec has fixed dozens of critical vulnerabilities affecting its solutions that can be exploited by remote attackers for arbitrary code execution.