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2019

Vulnerability in Exim mail server

Newly released version of Exim mail server patches remote code execution vulnerability in versions up to and including 4.92.1. The vulnerability (CVE…

Critical vulnerability in Cisco IOS XE system

Cisco released patches for a critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-12643) with a CVSS score of 10. The vulnerability is due to an improper check performe…

Apple released an emergency patch to address CVE-2019-8605 iOS flaw

Recently, Apple accidentally unpatched a vulnerability it had already fixed, making current versions of iOS vulnerable to hackers and allowing the ja…

Code Execution Flaw in QEMU Mostly Impacts Development, Test VMs

The open source machine emulator QEMU is affected by a vulnerability that can lead to a denial-of-service (DoS) condition or arbitrary code execution…

Serious Security Vulnerability Found In Bitdefender Antivirus Free 2020

Antivirus software supposedly provide robust security to users against cyber attacks. However, like all other tools, these tools can also suffer secu…

Hackers Target Vulnerabilities in Fortinet, Pulse Secure Products

Recently disclosed vulnerabilities affecting enterprise virtual private network (VPN) products from Fortinet and Pulse Secure have been exploited in …

How Activity Logs Help WordPress Admins Better Manage Website Security

Managing a WordPress website can sap a lot of your time and energy, which otherwise you'd spend on managing your business.

A new Zero-Day in Steam client impacts over 96 million Windows users

A new zero-day vulnerability in the for Windows impacting over 96 million users was disclosed by researcher Vasily Kravets.

Flaws in 4G Routers of various vendors put millions of users at risk

Security expert discovered multiple flaws in 4G routers manufactured by several companies, some of them could allow attackers to take over the device…

Infecting Canon EOS DSLR camera with ransomware over the air

A researcher discovered 6 flaws in the image transfer protocol used in Canon EOS 80D DSLR cameras that allow him to infect the device with ransomware…

Gaining remote code execution using a tainted SQLite database

Experts demonstrated that SQLite database can be abused by threat actors as an attack vector to execute malicious code in other apps.

Vulnerabilities in Device Drivers From 20 Vendors Expose PCs to Persistent Malware

Researchers at firmware security company Eclypsium have analyzed device drivers from major vendors and identified over 40 drivers from 20 firms conta…

Patch Your Cisco 220 smart switches now! Critical flaws exposed

Networking behemoth Cisco has rolled out an important firmware update for users of its 220 Series smart switches after a researcher discovered three …

A Zero-Day in Steam client for Windows affects over 100 Million users

Two researchers publicly disclosed a zero-day vulnerability that affects the popular Steam game client for Windows, 0ver 100 million users at risk.

Critical vulnerabilities in VxWorks system

Security researchers have discovered almost a dozen zero-day vulnerabilities in VxWorks, one of the most widely used real-time operating systems (RTO…

ACSC Relases New Essential Eight Maturity Model

The Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC) has released updates to its Essential Eight Maturity Model. The model assists organizations in determinin…

Mozilla releases fixes for critical vulnerability in Firefox browser

Mozilla released new versions of it's browser Firefox (67.0.3) and Firefox ESR (60.7.1) to address critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-11707) that is be…

Bitdefender releases decryptor for the newest versions of GandCrab ransomware

Antivirus company Bitdefender with cooperation of several law enforcement agencies released decryptor for the newest versions of GandCrab ransomware.…

Critical vulnerability in Exim e-mail server

Email server Exim contains a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-10149). An attacker could exploit the vulnerability to take cont…

Core security features of the Elastic Stack are now free

Elasticsearch announced that the core security features of the Elastic Stack are now free. This means that users can now encrypt network traffic, cre…

Microsoft patches critical vulnerability in Remote Desktop Services

Microsoft releases security patches to address critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2019-0708) that exists in Remote Desktop Services fo…

Vulnerability in Linux kernel allows remote code execution

Linux systems based on kernel versions prior to 5.0.8 are affected by a race condition vulnerability CVE-2019-11815 leading to a use after free that …

New collision attack on SHA-1 hashing algorithm

Attacks on the SHA-1 hashing algorithm just got a lot more dangerous last week with the discovery of the first-ever "chosen-prefix collision attack,"…

Mozilla releases fix for disabled add-ons issue in Firefox

Mozilla has released an update today for Firefox (66.0.4) and Firefox ESR (60.6.2) that fixes the issue with an expired signing certificate that disa…

Multiple vulnerabilities in Dell EMC iDrac web interface

Web management interface iDrac from Dell EMC contains several vulnerabilities. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take …

ISC releases BIND security updates

The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released updates that address vulnerabilities in versions of ISC Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND). A re…

Drupal Releases Security Updates

Drupal has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Drupal Core. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilitie…

Vulnerability in multiple enterprise VPN apps

Multiple VPN applications store the authentication and/or session cookies insecurely in memory and/or log files. If an attacker has persistent access…

NSA released internal reverse engineering framework Ghidra as open source

The National Security Agency (NSA) announced the release at the RSA Conference of the free reverse engineering framework GHIDRA - a multi-platform re…

Drupal critical flaw

Critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-6340) has been discovered in popular content management system (CMS) Drupal that allows for remote code execution by…

Severe vulnerability in WinRAR that exists for last 19 years

WinRAR, one of the world's most popular Windows file compression applications, has patched last month a severe security flaw (CVE-2018-20250, CVE-201…

Critical vulnerability in WordPress

The latest research from RIPS Technologies GmbH revealed the existence of a critical remote code execution vulnerability that affects all previous ve…

Vulnerability in package manager snapd

Package manager snapd by Canonical contains vulnerability dubbed Dirty Cow (CVE-2019-7304), which can be exploited by an attacker to gain root access…

runc container breakout

The vulnerability allows a malicious container to (with minimal user interaction) overwrite the host runc binary and thus gain root-level code execut…

Vulnerability in LibreOffice and OpenOffice allows for arbitrary code execution

A vulnerability discovered on office suites LibreOffice and OpenOffice allows for a remote code execution as soon as a user opens a malicious ODT fil…

Vulnerability in the Microsoft Exchange NTLM authentication protocol

Microsoft Exchange supports a API called Exchange Web Services (EWS). One of the EWS API functions is called PushSubscriptionRequest, which can be us…

Quiz on spotting the phishing

Google’s technology incubator Jigsaw has revealed a quiz that tests users’ abilities to identify phishing attacks. The quiz is created based on the s…

Vulnerability in APT package manager

Vulnerability was discovered in apt that allows a network man-in-the-middle (or a malicious package mirror) to execute arbitrary code as root on a ma…

Unpatched critical vulnerability in Cisco Small Business switches

A vulnerability in the Cisco Small Business Switches software could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass the user authentication mecha…

Over 87GB of email addresses and passwords exposed on the internet

Almost 773 million unique email addresses and just under 22 million unique passwords were found. The data, dubbed Collection #1, is a set of email ad…

Unpatched zero-day vulnerability in Windows including PoC

Unpatched Windows vulnerability was published with a proof of concept. Microsoft plans to release patches as a part of the April update. The vulnerab…

Oracle releases January 2019 Critical Patch Update

Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for January 2019 to address 284 vulnerabilities across multiple products. We encourages users and admin…

Fraud application preinstalled on Android devices

An unusually high number of transaction attempts encountered by Secure-D in Brazil and Malaysia coming from a series of Alcatel Android smartphone mo…

Three vulnerabilities disovered in systemd

Three (CVE-2018-16864, CVE-2018-16865, CVE-2018-16866) vulnerabilities discovered in systemd-journald. First two are memory corruptions (attacker-con…

SME Server Unauthenticated XSS To Privileged Remote Code Execution

The advisory describes a vulnerability in SME Server 9.2, which lets an unauthenticated attackers perform XSS attack in web management portal that le…

2018

National Cyber and Information Security Agency issued warning about Huawei and ZTE

National Cyber and Information Security Agency issued warning about software and hardware products from the following chinese companies:
Huawe…

New version of phpMyAdmin patches several vulnerabilities

New version of phpMyAdmin (one of the most popular and widely used MySQL database management systems) was released. Among other bug fixes, the newest…

SamSam ransomware

US-CERT team issues a warning to inform computer network defenders about SamSam ransomware. So far it seems that the threat gains access through vul…

Password-less sign-in with Microsoft account

Microsoft turned on the ability to securely sign in with your Microsoft account using a standards-based FIDO2 compatible device—no username or passwo…

VMware Releases Security Updates

VMware has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in ESXi, Workstation, and Fusion. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to …