Security

Pierluigi Paganini May 13, 2020
Microsoft May 2020 Patch Tuesday fixes 111 flaws, 13 Critical

Microsoft May 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates address 111 vulnerabilities impacting 12 different products, including Windows, Edge, IE, and Office, Microsoft issued May 2020 Patch Tuesday security updates that addressed 111 vulnerabilities impacting 12 products, including Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Edge, ChakraCore, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, Visual Studio, Microsoft […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2020
Adobe addresses critical issues in Acrobat, Reader, and DNG SDK

Adobe has released security updates to address 36 vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat, Reader, and Adobe DNG Software Development Kit. Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat, Reader, and Adobe DNG Software Development Kit that address thirty-six security vulnerabilities in Adobe Acrobat, Reader, and Adobe DNG Software Development Kit. Sixteen vulnerabilities addressed by Adobe have […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 12, 2020
Patch now your vBulletin install before hacker will target your forum

Maintainers of the vBulletin project have released an important fix to address a security vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-12720. Administrators of online discussion forums based on the popular vBulletin CMS urge to update their install to address a critical security vulnerability tracked as CVE-2020-12720. “A security exploit has been reported within vBulletin 5.6.1. To fix this issue, […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2020
VMware is going to fix recent Salt issues in vROps

VMware is going to address vulnerabilities impacting the vRealize Operations Manager (vROps) product, including two recently disclosed Salt issues. Recently, researchers from F-Secure disclosed a number of vulnerabilities in the “Salt” framework, including two issues that have been exploited by attackers to take over Salt installations. The two flaws, tracked as CVE-2020-11651 and CVE-2020-11652, are a directory […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 11, 2020
GDPR Data Security Checklist in the Age of COVID-19 and the Remote Workforce

During COVID-19 outbreak data processors have to be extra vigilant to maintain their compliance with data protection authorities like GDPR. COVID-19 has abruptly changed the world. It has imposed online learning and earning, which in turn has open new doors of cybersecurity threats and data breaches. Now the data processors have to be extra vigilant […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 08, 2020
Cisco fixes High Severity issues in ASA and FTD products

Cisco addresses tens of flaws in multiple products, including 12 high severity issues in Adaptive Security Appliance and Firepower Threat Defense. Cisco released security updates to address 34 flaws in multiple products, including 12 high severity vulnerabilities that affect Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD). Most of the vulnerabilities fixed by Cisco […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 06, 2020
9% of SAP’s 440,000 customers impacted by security bugs in some cloud products

The software giant SAP announced to have found security issues in its cloud-based products as part of an internal security review. German software giant SAP announced the discovery of security issues in its cloud-based products as part of an internal security review, the company already started to address the vulnerabilities. The list of the affected […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 05, 2020
Recorded Future to Provide Free Access to Elite Intelligence Through New Browser Extension

Level up Your Security Program With the Same Security Intelligence Used by the World’s Largest Governments and Many of the Fortune 1000 Recorded Future, the largest global security intelligence provider, today released a free browser extension that helps prioritize SIEM alerts and vulnerability patching, in addition to providing enhanced malware analysis. With this release, Recorded […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 04, 2020
DHS CISA alert provides recommendations on securing Office 365 installs

The US DHS CISA agency issued a new alert that includes recommendations on how organizations should properly secure Microsoft Office 365 installs. The current COVID-19 pandemic is pushing organizations to adopt a growing number of cloud-based services, for this reason, the DHS CISA published a new alert that provides recommendations to secure Office 365 deployments. […]

Pierluigi Paganini May 03, 2020
Cyber Threats Observatory Gets Improvements

Today I am so happy to announce a big improvement in the cyber threats observatory (available for here). The main improvement sees the introduction of clustering stereotypes for each tracked malware family in three different behaviors: Domains, Files and Processes. Every malware does specific actions on domains, files and processes realms by meaning that every sample contacts several domain names, spawns specific processes and […]