Security

Pierluigi Paganini January 20, 2022
Threat actors attempted to exploit SolarWinds Serv-U bug in attacks in the wild, Microsoft warns

Security vendor SolarWinds has fixed a Serv-U vulnerability that threat actors attempted to exploit in attacks in the wild. SolarWinds has addressed a vulnerability in Serv-U products that threat actors are actively exploited in the wild. The company pointed out that all the attack attempts failed. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-35247, was discovered by Microsoft security […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2022
UK NCSC shares guidance for organizations to secure their communications with customers

UK NCSC has published new guidance for organizations to secure their communications with customers via SMS or phone calls. UK’s National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has published new guidance for organizations for combatting telephone and SMS fraud. This guide aims at protecting their customers from fraudulent activities, while also ensuring that their SMS and telephone […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 19, 2022
CISA warns of potential critical threats following attacks against Ukraine

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) warned organizations about “potential critical threats” following the recent cyberattacks that hit Ukraine. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published an “insights” document that warned organizations about “potential critical threats” following the recent cyberattacks aimed at Ukraine. The document starts from most recent attacks targeting […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2022
Oracle Critical Patch Update for January 2022 will fix 483 new flaws

The pre-release announcement for Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2022 states that Oracle will fix 483 new flaws. This pre-release announcement for Critical Patch Update (CPU) for January 2022 confirms that Oracle security updates will address 483 new security patches. The Critical Patch Update for January will be released on Tuesday, January 18, 2022.  […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2022
Zoho fixes a critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-44757) in Desktop Central solutions

Zoho addressed a new critical severity flaw (CVE-2021-44757) that affects its Desktop Central and Desktop Central MSP unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions Zoho fixed a new critical severity flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-44757, that affects its Desktop Central and Desktop Central MSP unified endpoint management (UEM) solutions. The issue is an authentication bypass vulnerability, a remote attacker […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 17, 2022
High-Severity flaw in 3 WordPress plugins impacts 84,000 websites

Researchers discovered a high-severity vulnerability in three different WordPress plugins that impact over 84,000 websites. Researchers from WordPress security company Wordfence discovered a high-severity vulnerability that affects three different WordPress plugins that impact over 84,000 websites. The vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-0215 is a cross-site request forgery (CSRF) issue that received a CVSS score of 8.8. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 16, 2022
European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company

The European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company to test its cyber-defense capabilities. Cyber drills are essential to test the resilience of our infrastructure, the European Union simulated a cyber attack on a fictitious Finnish power company to test its cyber-defense capabilities. The simulation took place on Friday and is […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2022
Cisco fixes a critical flaw in Unified CCMP and Unified CCDM

Cisco fixed a critical privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20658, in Unified CCMP and Unified CCDM. Cisco released security patches to address a critical privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-20658, in Unified Contact Center Management Portal (Unified CCMP) and Unified Contact Center Domain Manager (Unified CCDM). A remote attacker could exploit the flaw to elevate […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2022
Mozilla addresses High-Risk Firefox, Thunderbird vulnerabilities

Mozilla addressed18 security vulnerabilities affecting the popular Firefox web browser and the Thunderbird mail program. Mozilla released Firefox 96 that addressed 18 security vulnerabilities in its web browser and the Thunderbird mail program. Nine vulnerabilities addressed by the new release are rated high-severity, the most severe one is a race condition issue tracked as CVE-2022-22746. […]

Pierluigi Paganini January 13, 2022
KCodes NetUSB flaw impacts millions of SOHO routers

Cybersecurity experts discovered a flaw in the KCodes NetUSB component that impacts millions of end-user routers from different vendors Cybersecurity researchers from SentinelOne have discovered a critical vulnerability (CVE-2021-45608) in KCodes NetUSB component that is present in millions of end-user routers from different vendors, including Netgear, TP-Link, Tenda, EDiMAX, D-Link, and Western Digital. NetUSB is […]