March 12, 2019
March Patch Tuesday: Eliminate the Exploits Microsoft has released 64 patches today covering IE, Edge, Exchange, Windows and Office. There are 17 rated Critical, 45 rated Important, 1 is rated Moderate and 1 is rated Low in severity—this is much less than last month’s release of over 80...
March 8, 2019
Critical Red Hat Updates A recent Red Hat security advisory has been issues for Red Hat Enterprise 6 and 7 relating to Java version 7 and 8. A CVSS score of 8.6 indicates this has a high probability of being...
March 6, 2019
Zero-Day Flaw in Chrome Under Active Attack Google has warned that a zero-day Remote Code Execution “RCE” vulnerability is actively being exploited in the wild by attackers to target Chrome users. The latest attacks exploit CVE-2019-5786, a security flaw and...
February 27, 2019
Why Realtime Security is Crucial This article originally appeared on TechWormCyberattacks are rapidly growing as a global threat. With more complex and powerful attacks, actors are in a control of massive amounts of resources, including username and password data dumps...
February 26, 2019
Adobe Patches Critical Flaw Twice in One Week Adobe has been tripping over its own patches this week. After its original fix failed, Adobe has issued yet another patch for a critical zero-day vulnerability in its Acrobat Reader. The previous...
February 25, 2019
WinRAR Resolves 19-Year Old Vulnerability Check Point Research has uncovered a vulnerability in file extraction software WinRAR that has left users at risk for the past 19 years. The security flaw allows attackers to extract files of malicious software to access...
February 20, 2019
SHA-2 Required to Patch Windows 7 Onward Due to weaknesses in the SHA-1 algorithm, and to align to industry standards, from July onward Microsoft will sign each Windows updates using the more secure SHA-2 algorithm only. If you are still...
February 19, 2019
10 Ways To Protect Your Organization From Cyberattacks This article originally appeared on ypo.org.Many CEOs don’t want to think about cybersecurity. That’s why you hire a chief technology officer (CTO) or chief information security officer (CISO). But cybersecurity is now...
February 13, 2019
Phobos Ransomware Creates Massive Security Exploit There is a new, powerful strain of ransomware making the rounds. While we don’t have all the details yet, the effects on victims is grim. This nasty piece of work is called Phobos and...
February 13, 2019
February Patch Tuesday: Disable Windows Update Microsoft has released almost 80 security patches today covering IE, Edge, Exchange, Windows, .NET Framework and Office. There are only 20 rated Critical, 54 rated Important, and 3 are rated Moderate in severity. Four of the updates released CVE-2019-0636, CVE-2019-0686,...
