Tag: vulnerabilities

October 17, 2018

Google has lifted the curtain on its latest version of Chrome, which the tech giant has pledged touts more data privacy features, as well as fixes for high-priority vulnerabilities. The release comes after Google had promised updates in Chrome 70 […]

October 8, 2018

If you own a MikroTik router and you haven’t updated its RouterOS in the last month, you should do so now: Tenable Research has released details about four vulnerabilities they found in the OS, including an authenticated remote code execution […]

October 5, 2018

A staggering 83 percent of home and office routers have vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers. Of those vulnerable, over a quarter harbor high-risk and critical vulnerabilities, according to a report released this week by American Consumer Institute on […]

October 2, 2018

The update includes a security bypass bug that enables privilege escalation. Adobe on Monday posted its regularly-scheduled October security update addressing 86 vulnerabilities – more than half of which were critical flaws – in Adobe Acrobat and Reader, its set […]

September 28, 2018

Good digital hygiene will lower your risk, and these six tips can help. This past April saw a milestone: the 100,000th common vulnerability and exposure (CVE). Although we’ve hit a major mark in CVE identifiers, Cisco found that the total […]

September 21, 2018

Cisco this week addressed vulnerabilities in the Webex Network Recording Player for Advanced Recording Format (ARF) that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code on a targeted system. The Webex Meetings Server is a multimedia conferencing solution that […]

September 18, 2018

Facebook announced on Monday that it has expanded its bug bounty program to introduce rewards for reports describing vulnerabilities that involve the exposure of user access tokens. Access tokens allow users to log into third-party applications and websites through Facebook. […]

September 14, 2018

One year after Armis disclosed ‘BlueBorne,’ a large number of Android, Linux, and iOS devices remain unpatched. One year after security vendor Armis disclosed a set of nine exploitable vulnerabilities in Bluetooth, some 2 billion devices — including hundreds of […]

September 12, 2018

Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 address over 60 vulnerabilities, including a zero-day disclosed by a researcher and exploited shortly after by a threat actor. The actively exploited flaw, identified as CVE-2018-8440, was disclosed on August 27 by a […]

September 6, 2018

Software vulnerabilities continue to be discovered on a daily basis, and it can often be a race against the hacker to apply relevant updates and remediate a vulnerability before the weakness is exploited. This is particularly the case for zero-day […]