Tag: Critical

July 22, 2016

Managed security risk assessment provider Digital Defense has identified several vulnerabilities in the Dell SonicWALL Global Management System (GMS), a platform that allows organizations to centrally manage their SonicWALL solutions. The vendor has released a hotfix to patch the issues. […]

June 9, 2016

The House Homeland Security Committee on Wednesday advanced a bill that would restructure how the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) protects critical infrastructure from digital threats. “This bill removes bureaucratic barriers at DHS so it can more effectively carry out […]

May 13, 2016

While many security issues translate across multiple industries, there are cases where specific industries have unique challenges. What is serious to the automotive industry might not be as serious to the publishing field, for example. There are few places where […]

March 11, 2016

A vulnerability in “libotr,” the C code implementation of the Off-the-Record (OTR) protocol that is used in many secure instant messengers such as ChatSecure, Pidgin, Adium and Kopete, could be exploited by attackers to crash an app using libotr or […]

February 16, 2016

Mozilla released updates for the standard and ESR versions of Firefox last week to address vulnerabilities classified as having “critical” impact. Earlier this month, researchers at Cisco’s Talos team reported finding several vulnerabilities in the Libgraphite library, used for font […]

January 15, 2016

The U.S. government has seen a rise in cyber-attacks that penetrate industrial control systems, a top cyber-security official said Wednesday. “We see more and more [cyber-attacks] that are gaining access to that control system layer,” said Marty Edwards, director of […]

November 9, 2015

The most serious software flaws ever have been found in SAP’s HANA platform, the in-memory database platform that underpins many of the German company’s products used by large companies. Eight of the flaws are ranked critical, the highest severity rating, […]

September 16, 2015

#google on Wednesday vowed to charge ahead with more encryption of #user data even as law enforcement officials warn the technology could hamper their investigations. The tech giant’s director of law enforcement and information security, Richard Salgado, on Wednesday told […]