Security

Pierluigi Paganini September 15, 2021
Microsoft Patch Tuesday fixes CVE-2021-40444 MSHTML zero-day

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2021 addressed a high severity zero-day flaw actively exploited in targeted attacks. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for September 2021 addressed a high severity zero-day RCE actively exploited in targeted attacks aimed at Microsoft Office and Office 365 on Windows 10 computers. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-40444, resides in the MSHTML, […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2021
Millions of HP OMEN gaming PCs impacted by CVE-2021-3437 driver flaw

A high severity vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-3437, in HP OMEN laptop and desktop gaming computers exposes millions of systems to DoS and privilege escalation attacks. Millions of HP OMEN laptop and desktop gaming computers are exposed to multiple attacks by a high severity vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-3437 that was discovered by SentinelLabs researchers. “Potential security vulnerabilities […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2021
Google addresses a new Chrome zero-day flaw actively exploited in the wild

Google Chrome 93.0.4577.82 for Windows, Mac, and Linux that addressed eleven security issues, including two zero-days actively exploited. Google released Chrome 93.0.4577.82 for Windows, Mac, and Linux that fixed eleven security issues, including two zero-days vulnerabilities actively exploited in the wild. This is the tenth zero-day vulnerability in Chrome fixed by Google that was exploited […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 14, 2021
Popular NPM package Pac-Resolver affected by a critical flaw

Experts found a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-23406, in the popular NPM package ‘Pac-Resolver‘ that has millions of downloads every week. The development team behind a popular NPM package called ‘Pac-Resolver‘ for the JavaScript programming language fixed a high-severity remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-23406. The vulnerability can be exploited by remote attackers to run […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2021
Apple fixes actively exploited FORCEDENTRY zero-day flaws

Apple released security patches to fix two zero-day vulnerabilities in iOS and macOS that are actively exploited in attacks in the wild. Apple rolled out security patches to fix a couple of zero-day flaws in iOS and macOS (CVE-2021-30860, CVE-2021-30858), the IT giant also warns its customers that these issues are actively exploited in attacks […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 13, 2021
Facebook announces WhatsApp end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) backups

Facebook announced it will allow WhatsApp users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. Facebook will continue to work to protect the privacy of WhatsApp users and announced that it will allow users to encrypt their message history backups in the cloud. While WhatsApp has already implemented end-to-end encrypion since 2016, the company […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 11, 2021
Cisco released security patches for High-Severity flaws in IOS XR software

Cisco fixed multiple high-severity flaws in the IOS XR software that can allow attackers to trigger a DoS condition, elevate privileges, overwrite/read arbitrary files. Cisco released security updates to address multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the IOS XR software that can be exploited to conduct multiple malicious activities, such as rebooting devices and elevate privileges. The […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 10, 2021
Microsoft fixes Azurescape flaw in Azure Container Instances

Microsoft has fixed the Azurescape issue, a flaw in Azure Container Instances that allows to take over containers of other platform users. Microsoft has addressed a vulnerability in Azure Container Instances (ACI) called Azurescape that could have allowed a malicious container to take over containers belonging to other users. An attacker could exploit the vulnerability […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2021
Millions of Microsoft web servers powered by vulnerable legacy software

CyberNews researchers identified more than 2 million web servers worldwide still running on outdated and vulnerable versions of Microsoft Internet Information Services software. These legacy versions are no longer supported by Microsoft, which makes millions of web servers easy targets for threat actors and cybercriminals. Original post @ https://cybernews.com/security/millions-of-microsoft-web-servers-powered-by-vulnerable-legacy-software/ Boasting a market share of 12.4%, Microsoft […]

Pierluigi Paganini September 09, 2021
Yandex is under the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet

The Russian internet service provider Yandex is under a massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack that began last week. The Russian Internet giant Yandex has been targeting by the largest DDoS attack in the history of Runet, the Russian Internet designed to be independent of the world wide web and ensure the resilience of the country […]