Security

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2021
VMware fixed flaws in vROps that can be chained to compromise organizations

VMware addressed two vulnerabilities in its vRealize Operations (vROps) product that can expose organizations to a significant risk of attacks The vROps delivers self-driving IT operations management for private, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments in a unified, AI-powered platform. Security researcher Egor Dimitrenko from Positive Technologies discovered a server-side request forgery (SSRF) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-21975 […]

Pierluigi Paganini April 01, 2021
US CISA warns of DoS flaws in Citrix Hypervisor

Citrix addressed vulnerabilities in Hypervisor that could be exploited by threat actors to execute code in a virtual machine to trigger a denial of service condition on the host. US CISA warns that Citrix has released security updates to address flaws in Hypervisor that could be exploited by threat actors to execute code in a […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2021
Chinese experts earned $20,000 for reporting a Chrome Sandbox Escape

Researchers have reported to Google a sandbox escape vulnerability in the Chrome web browser to Google that awarded them $20,000. Experts from the Chinese cybersecurity company Qihoo 360 have reported to Google another sandbox escape vulnerability (CVE-2021-21194) affecting the Chrome web browser. The tech giant awarded the researchers Leecraso and Guang Gong from the 360 Alpha […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 31, 2021
IETF deprecates TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1, update to latest versions

IETF has formally deprecated the TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1 cryptographic protocols because they lack support for recommended cryptographic algorithms and mechanisms The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) formally deprecates Transport Layer Security (TLS) versions 1.0 (RFC 2246) and 1.1 (RFC 4346). Both versions lack support for current and recommended cryptographic algorithms and mechanisms. TLS […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2021
VMware addresses SSRF flaw in vRealize Operations that allows stealing admin credentials

VMware addressed a high severity vulnerability in vRealize Operations that could allow stealing admin credentials from vulnerable servers. VMware has published security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in VMware vRealize Operations that could allow threat actors to steal admin credentials from vulnerable installs. VMware vRealize Operations is a self-driving and AI-powered platform for the management of IT operations […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 30, 2021
Experts found 2 Linux Kernel flaws that can allow bypassing Spectre mitigations

Linux kernel recently fixed a couple of vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to bypass mitigations designed to protect devices against Spectre attacks. Kernel updates released in March have addressed a couple of vulnerabilities that could be exploited by an attacker to bypass mitigations designed to protect devices against Spectre attacks. In January 2018, White […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2021
Experts found two flaws in Facebook for WordPress Plugin

A critical flaw in the official Facebook for WordPress plugin could be abused exploited for remote code execution attacks. Researchers at Wordfence have discovered two vulnerabilities in the Facebook for WordPress plugin, which has more than 500,000 active installations. The plugin allows administrators to capture the actions people take while interacting with their page, such […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2021
QNAP urges users to take action to protect devices against Brute-Force attacks

Taiwanese manufacturer QNAP published an alert urging its customers to secure their devices after a growing number of users reported that their devices have been hit by brute-force attacks. This week the Taiwanese vendor QNAP has published an alert urging users to secure their devices after a growing number of users reported that their devices […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 28, 2021
US Gov Executive Order would oblige to disclose security breach impacting gov users

According to a proposed executive order of the Biden administration, software vendors would have to disclose breaches to U.S. government users. The Reuters agency revealed that an executive order proposed by the Biden administration will oblige software vendors to notify their federal government customers in case they will suffer a security breach. The executive order […]

Pierluigi Paganini March 27, 2021
Apple released out-of-band updates for a new Zero‑Day actively exploited

Apple has released new out-of-band updates for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS to address another zero‑day flaw, tracked CVE-2021-1879, actively exploited. Apple has released a new set of out-of-band patches for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS to address a critical zero-day vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-1879, that is being actively exploited in the wild. The vulnerability resides […]