Security

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2020
BigDebIT flaws in Oracle EBS allow hackers to alter financial records

Oracle addressed two flaws in E-Business Suite solution that can be exploited by attackers to tamper with an organization’s financial records. Oracle addressed two security flaws in its E-Business Suite (EBS) business management solution that could allow attackers to carry out a broad range of malicious activities, including to tamper with an organization’s financial records. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2020
D-Link releases a security firmware update that only fixes 3 out 6 issues in DIR-865L home routers

D-Link has released a firmware update to address three security flaws impacting the DIR-865L home router model, but left some issue unpatched D-Link has recently released a firmware update to address three out of six security flaws impacting the DIR-865L wireless home router. Below the list of vulnerabilities affecting the D-Link home routers: CVE-2020-13782: Improper […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2020
A high-severity flaw affects VMware Workstation, Fusion and vSphere products.

VMware has addressed a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability affecting its Workstation, Fusion and vSphere virtualization products. VMware has addressed a high-severity information disclosure vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-3960, that affects its Workstation, Fusion and vSphere virtualization products. The CVE-2020-3960 flaw was discovered by Cfir Cohen, a researcher from Google’s cloud security team. ESXi, Workstation and Fusion […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 10, 2020
Microsoft June 2020 Patch Tuesday fix 129 flaws, 11 rated as critical

Microsoft June 2020 Patch Tuesday address 129 vulnerabilities, 11 flaws are rated as Critical while 118 are rated as Important in severity. Microsoft June 2020 Patch Tuesday address 129 vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer (IE), Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based and Chromium-based in IE Mode), ChakraCore, Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, Windows Defender, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2020
Adobe fixes critical flaws in Flash Player and Framemaker

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in its Flash Player, Framemaker and Experience Manager products. Adobe has released security updates to address ten vulnerabilities in its Adobe Flash Player, Adobe Experience Manager, and Adobe Framemaker products. Four vulnerabilities out of ten are rated as ‘Critical,’ they could allow a remote attacker to execute […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 09, 2020
Two Critical Remote Code Execution flaws fixed in IBM WebSphere

IBM has addressed two critical vulnerabilities in IBM WebSphere Application Server that could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code. In April, a security researcher who goes online with the moniker ‘tint0’ discovered three serious deserialization issues affecting the IBM WebSphere Application Server. Two of the vulnerabilities (CVE-2020-4450 and CVE-2020-4448) are remote code execution issues that […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2020
Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users raising privacy concerns

A researcher is warning that Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users raising serious privacy concerns. Google is indexing the phone numbers of WhatsApp users that could be abused by threat actors for malicious activities. Even if Google Search only revealed the phone numbers and not the identities of associated users, ill-intentioned attackers […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 08, 2020
IBM releases open-source toolkits implementing FHE to process data while encrypted

IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE) that allow researchers to process data while it’s still encrypted. IBM has released open-source toolkits implementing fully homomorphic encryption (FHE), which allows researchers to process encrypted data without having access to the actual data. The toolkits released by IBM are already available for macOS and […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 05, 2020
Cyber Defense Magazine – June 2020 has arrived. Enjoy it!

Cyber Defense Magazine June 2020 Edition has arrived. We hope you enjoy this month’s edition
packed with over 165 pages of excellent content. Cyber Defense Magazine June 2020 Edition has arrived. Tips, tricks, ideas, secrets and insider information on the best practices in cybersecurity.  Please read it and share it with your friends.  With much appreciation to […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 02, 2020
IP-in-IP flaw affects devices from Cisco and other vendors

A flaw in the IP-in-IP tunneling protocol that can be exploited for DoS attacks and to bypass security controls impact devices from Cisco and other vendors. A vulnerability that affects the IP-in-IP tunneling protocol (aka IP Encapsulation within IP) implemented by Cisco and other vendors could be exploited for denial-of-service (DoS) attacks and to bypass […]