August 2018

Chrome Vulnerability Endangers Your Private Data A vulnerability has been found within Chrome that would allow actors to access information stored by other web platforms, such as major data hoarders Facebook and Google. CVE-2018-6177 was uncovered by Ron Masas, a...

Photoshop Gets Edited Adobe released an out-of-band security update to address two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities impacting Adobe Photoshop CC for Windows and Apple devices. These two vulnerabilities, identified as CVE-2018-12810 and CVE-2018-12811, impact Adobe Photoshop CC 2018 version...

Corporate Network Credential Harvesting The US National Cybersecurity & Communications Integrations Center (NCCIC) recently issued advice that all organizations should block outbound Server Message Block (SMB) traffic at the firewall – Ports 137/139/445. A recent hack has been identified that...

Foreshadow Flaw Found in Intel CPUs For the more than a billion computers that depend on Intel CPUs, the flaws just keep coming. Thanks to work by researchers from KU Leuven University in Belgium, along with the universities of Adelaide...

Stop the Remote Attackers A global Linux kernel bug affecting almost every Linux operating system could currently be used to expose millions of Linux servers around the world. The vulnerability (CVE-2018-5391) carrying a CVSS score of 7.8 (High Severity) relates...

August Patch Tuesday Release Microsoft have released 60 security patches today covering Internet Explorer (IE), Edge, ChakraCore, Windows components, .NET Framework, SQL Server, as well as Microsoft Office and Office Services. Out of these 60 CVEs, 19 are listed as...

Exposing your network with HP OfficeJet Printers A malicious fax sent to an vulnerable all-in-one inkjet printer can give hackers control of the printer and act as a springboard into your network environment. HP’s implementation of a widely used fax...

The FBI has Released a New PSA According to the alert, I-080218-PSA, actors with malicious intent have been actively using vulnerable IoT devices. Said devices act as proxies to route malicious traffic for cyber attacks and computer network exploitation. This...