Security

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2022
Oracle Critical Patch Update for January 2022 will fix 483 new flaws

The pre-release announcement for Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2022 states that Oracle will fix 483 new flaws. This pre-release announcement for Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2022 confirms that Oracle security updates will address 483 new security patches. The Critical Patch Update for January will be released on Tuesday, January 18, 2022.  […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2022
Zoho fixes a critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-44757) in Desktop Central solutions

Zoho addressed a new critical severity flaw (CVE-2021-44757) that affects its Desktop Central and Desktop Central MSP unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions Zoho fixed a new critical severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-44757, that affects its Desktop Central and Desktop Central MSP unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions. The issue is an authentication bypass vulnerability, a remote attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2022
High-Severity flaw in 3 WordPress plugins impacts 84,000 websites

Researchers discovered a high-severity vulnerability in three different WordPress plugins that impact over 84,000 websites. Researchers from WordPress security company Wordfence discovered a high-severity vulnerability that affects three different WordPress plugins that impact over 84,000 websites. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-0215 is a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue that received a CVSS score of 8.8. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2022
European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company

The European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company to test its cyber-defense capabilities. Cyber drills are essential to test the resilience of our infrastructure, the European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company to test its cyber-defense capabilities. The simulation took place on Friday and is […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2022
Cisco fixes a critical flaw in Unified CCMP and Unified CCDM

Cisco fixed a critical privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20658, in Unified CCMP and Unified CCDM. Cisco released security patches to address a critical privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20658, in Unified Contact Center Management Portal (Unified CCMP) and Unified Contact Center Domain Manager (Unified CCDM). A remote attacker could exploit the flaw to elevate […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2022
Mozilla addresses High-Risk Firefox, Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Mozilla addressed18 security vulnerabilities affecting the popular Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird mail program. Mozilla released Firefox 96 that addressed 18 security vulnerabilities in its web browser and the Thunderbird mail program. Nine vulnerabilities addressed by the new release are rated high-severity, the most severe one is a race condition issue tracked as CVE-2022-22746. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2022
KCodes NetUSB flaw impacts millions of SOHO routers

Cybersecurity experts discovered a flaw in the KCodes NetUSB component that impacts millions of end-user routers from different vendors Cybersecurity researchers from SentinelOne have discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-45608) in KCodes NetUSB component that is present in millions of end-user routers from different vendors, including Netgear, TP-Link, Tenda, EDiMAX, D-Link, and Western Digital. NetUSB is […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 12, 2022
Adobe fixes 4 critical Reader bugs that were demonstrated at Tianfu Cup

Adobe released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities affecting several products, including Acrobat and Reader. Adobe patches for January address 41 vulnerabilities in Windows and macOS versions of Acrobat and Reader products, Illustrator, Adobe Bridge, InCopy, and InDesign. 22 of these vulnerabilities were reported through the ZDI program. The software giant fixed a total of […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2022
Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes critical Office RCE

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates fix a critical Office flaw that can allow remote attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable systems. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for January 2022 patch 96 vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows and Windows Components, Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based), Exchange Server, Microsoft Office and Office Components, SharePoint Server, .NET Framework, Microsoft Dynamics, […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 11, 2022
WordPress 5.8.3 Security Release fixes four vulnerabilities

WordPress maintainers have released WordPress 5.8.3 that addresses four vulnerabilities and recommend admins to update their sites immediately The WordPress 5.8.3 security release addresses four vulnerabilities affecting versions between 3.7 and 5.8, it is labeled as a short-cycle security release. The organization announced that the next major release will be version 5.9, which is already in […]