Security

Pierluigi Paganini September 20, 2018
Adobe issued a critical out-of-band patch to address CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw

Adobe releases a critical out-of-band patch for CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw, the security updates address a total of 7 vulnerabilities. Adobe address seven vulnerability in Acrobat DC and Acrobat Reader DC, including one critical vulnerability that could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary code. “Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 17, 2018
One year later BlueBorne disclosure, over 2 Billion devices are still vulnerable

One year after the discovery of the BlueBorne Bluetooth vulnerabilities more than 2 billion devices are still vulnerable to attacks. In September 2017, experts with Armis Labs devised a new attack technique, dubbed BlueBorne, aimed at mobile, desktop and IoT devices that use Bluetooth.  The BlueBorne attack exposes devices to a new remote attack, even without […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2018
ICS CERT warns of several flaws in Fuji Electric V-Server

Experts discovered several flaws in Fuji Electric V-Server, a tool that connects PCs within the organizations to Industrial Control Systems (ICS). Experts discovered several vulnerabilities in Fuji Electric V-Server, a tool that connects PCs within the organizations to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) on the corporate network. The ICS-CERT published two advisories to warn of the existence of the […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2018
Cyber Defense Magazine – September 2018 has arrived. Enjoy it!

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Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2018
September 2018 Security Notes address a total of 14 flaws in SAP products

SAP today just released the September 2018 set of Security Notes that address a total of 14 flaws in its products, including a critical flaw in SAP Business Client. The September 2018 Security Patch Day includes other 13 Security Notes, three were rated High severity, 9 Medium risk, and 1 Low severity. SAP also released 8 Support Package Notes, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 12, 2018
Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 also address recently disclosed Windows zero-day

Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 address over 60 vulnerabilities, including the recently disclosed zero-day flaw. Microsoft Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 address 61 vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer (IE), Edge, ChakraCore, Azure, Hyper-V, Windows components, .NET Framework, SQL Server, and Microsoft Office and Office Services. Of the 62 CVEs. 17 flaws are rated […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2018
Adobe Patch Tuesday for September 2018 fixes 10 flaws in Flash Player and ColdFusion

Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 address a total of 10 vulnerabilities in Flash Player and ColdFusion, the good news is that none is severe. The Adobe Patch Tuesday updates for September 2018 addressed an important privilege escalation vulnerability (CVE-2018-15967) in Adobe Flash Player 30.0.0.154 and earlier versions.  The successful exploitation of the flaw could lead to information […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2018
Trend Micro Apps removed from Mac App Store after being caught exfiltrating user data

Several anti-malware apps developed by Trend Micro have been removed from the Mac App Store because they were harvesting users’ browser history and other info. Several anti-malware apps developed by Trend Micro, including Dr Cleaner, Dr. Unarchiver, Dr Antivirus, and App Uninstall, have been removed from the Mac App Store after researchers discovered they were harvesting users’ browser […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 08, 2018
Privacy-oriented Linux OS Tails 3.9 is out, what’s new?

The popular Debian-based distribution Tails “The Amnesiac Incognito Live System” is out. The Tails 3.9 is available online with the biggest updates this year. A new version of the popular Debian-based distribution Tails “The Amnesiac Incognito Live System” is out. The Tails version 3.9 is available online, the privacy-oriented operating system gets its biggest update, many […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 07, 2018
USB Drives shipped with Schneider Solar Products were infected with malware

Schneider Electric announced that some of the USB drives it has shipped with its Conext ComBox and Conext Battery Monitor products were infected with malware. Schneider Electric has found a malicious code on the USB drives that have been shipped with Conext ComBox and Conext Battery Monitor products. Both products are part of the solar energy […]