October 2018

An Attacker Could Take Over Impacted Systems With 3 Commands or Less A security researcher has discovered a highly critical flaw in X.Org Server package that impacts OpenBSD and most Linux distributions, including Debian, Ubuntu, CentOS, Red Hat, and Fedora....

FreeRTOS Has 13 Major Security Flaws Research performed by Zimperium’s zLabs team uncovered 13 vulnerabilities that could be manipulated to leak information, crash devices, and even take control with remote code execution. “During our research, we discovered multiple vulnerabilities within...

Over 300 Vulnerabilities: 49 Rated as Critical Oracle has just dropped its October 2018 update and it is a big one! Over 300 security flaws are addressed in this massive release. 49 of those flaws carry a critical CVSS rating...

Europol Cybercrime Report 2018 According to Europol’s 2018 Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA) report, ransomware is the top threat to organizations. This report sites ransomware as the largest player in financially-motivated attacks. It also points out the increase in...

Windows 10 Update causes HP Blue Screen of Death Microsoft is in trouble with its latest Windows 10 update. The October release 1809 already had a bug that was deleting users’ personal files. Now, this update is wreaking new havoc...

Patch Tuesday: The Latest News Microsoft has released 49 security patches today covering Internet Explorer (IE), Edge, ChakraCore, Hyper-V, Exchange, Windows components, .NET Core, SQL Server, and Microsoft Office. 12 updates are listed as Critical, 35 are rated Important, one...

Google Polishes Chrome With an apparent rise in malicious extensions, Google has announced five changes that aim to secure their product. These should be incorporated into their next release in the later half of this month, Chrome 70. 1. Expanded...