Security

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2021
Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday fixes 56 bugs, including an actively exploited Windows zero-day

Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday addresses 56 vulnerabilities, including a flaw that is known to be actively exploited in the wild. Microsoft February 2021 Patch Tuesday security updates address 56 CVEs in multiple products, including Windows components, .NET Framework, Azure IoT, Azure Kubernetes Service, Microsoft Edge for Android, Exchange Server, Office and Office Services and […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 09, 2021
Critical flaws in NextGen Gallery WordPress plugin still impact over 500K installs

The development team behind the NextGen Gallery plugin has addressed two severe CSRF vulnerabilities that could have allowed site takeover. The developers behind the NextGen Gallery plugin have fixed two critical Cross-site request forgery (CSRF) vulnerabilities, their exploitation could lead to a site takeover, malicious redirects, spam injection, phishing, and other malicious activities. The NextGEN […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 08, 2021
Google launches Open Source Vulnerabilities (OSV) database

Google announced the launch of OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities), a vulnerability database and triage infrastructure for open source projects. Google last week announced the OSV (Open Source Vulnerabilities), a vulnerability database and triage infrastructure for open source projects. The database aims at helping both open source maintainers and consumers of open source projects. The archive […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 07, 2021
The number of ICS flaws in 2020 was 24,72% higher compared to 2019

The number of vulnerabilities discovered in industrial control system (ICS) products surged in 2020, security firm Claroty reports. According to a report published by the industrial cybersecurity firm Claroty that focuses on the second half of 2020, the number of flaws discovered in industrial control system (ICS) products in 2020 (893 flaws) was 24,72% higher […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 06, 2021
Experts found critical flaws in Realtek Wi-Fi Module

Critical flaws in the Realtek RTL8195A Wi-Fi module could have been exploited to gain root access and take over devices’ wireless communications. Researchers from Israeli IoT security firm Vdoo found six vulnerabilities in the Realtek RTL8195A Wi-Fi module that could have been exploited to gain root access and take control of a device’s wireless communications. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 05, 2021
Fortinet addresses 4 vulnerabilities in FortiWeb web application firewalls

Security vendor Fortinet has addressed four vulnerabilities in FortiWeb web application firewalls, including a Remote Code Execution flaw. Fortinet has addressed four vulnerabilities in FortiWeb web application firewalls that were reported by Positive Technologies expert Andrey Medov.  The first vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2020-29015, is a blind SQL injection that resides in the FortiWeb user interface. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2021
Hackers accessed Stormshield data, including source code of ANSSI certified products

The provider of network security products Stormshield discloses data breach, threat actors stole information on some of its clients. Stormshield is a major provider of network security products to the French government, some approved to be used on sensitive networks. Stormshield is a French publisher of software specialized in computer security, its products are certified […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 04, 2021
Cisco fixes critical remote code execution issues in SMB VPN routers

Cisco addressed multiple pre-auth remote code execution (RCE) flaws in small business VPN routers that allow executing arbitrary code as root. Cisco has fixed several pre-auth remote code execution (RCE) issues in multiple small business VPN routers. The flaws could be exploited by unauthenticated, remote attackers to execute arbitrary code as root on vulnerable devices. […]

Pierluigi Paganini February 01, 2021
Google discloses a severe flaw in widely used Libgcrypt encryption library

Google discovered a flaw in GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)’s Libgcrypt encryption library that could be exploited to get remote code execution. The popular white hat hacker Tavis Ormandy of Google Project Zero discovered a severe heap buffer overflow flaw in GNU Privacy Guard (GnuPG)’s Libgcrypt encryption software could have allowed a remote attacker to write […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 31, 2021
Experts explain how to bypass recent improvement of China’s Great Firewall

Experts from Great Firewall Report analyzed recent upgrades to China’s Great Firewall and revealed that it can be circumvented. Members of the Great Firewall Report group have analyzed the recent improvement implemented for China’s Great Firewall censorship system and revealed that it is possible to bypass it. Last year, the group published a detailed analysis […]