• March 4, 2021

    Google Chrome Zero-Day Being Weaponized Critical Chrome Vulnerability Google has released Chrome 89.0.4389.72 today to the Stable Channel and is impacting Windows, Linux and Mac OS. CVE-2021-21148 has been marked as weaponized with active exploits taking place. The Details The...

  • March 3, 2021

    Linux Vulnerabilities of the Week: March 1, 2021 1. Buffer overflow impacting python 27, python 36 and python 38 Vendor Severity: Medium CVSS Score: 9.8 A stack-based buffer overflow was discovered in the ctypes module provided within Python.  Applications that...

  • February 26, 2021

    Do You Really Know How Vulnerable You Are? Vulnerability Scanning Plays an Essential Role in Modern Security How vulnerable is your IT security strategy? Sometimes you can get too cozy behind well-built fortifications and imposing defenses. The ancient Trojans offer...

  • February 5, 2021

    Google Chrome Zero-Day Being Weaponized New Chrome Vulnerability Exploited Google has released Chrome 88.0.4324.150 to the Stable Channel and is impacting Windows, Linux and Mac OS. CVE-2021-21148 has been marked as weaponized with active exploits taking place. What's Been Resolved?...

  • February 4, 2021

    Linux Vulnerabilities of the Week: February 1, 2021 1. Security update for rubygem-nokogiri for SUSE OpenStack Cloud Crowbar 8 & 9, and SUSE OpenStack Cloud 7 Vendor Severity: Important CVSS Score: 9.8 This update for rubygem-nokogiri fixes the following issues:...

  • February 4, 2021

    Flash Is Back Flash Player No Longer Supported Since Adobe no longer supports Flash Player as of December 31, 2020, IT departments around the world have been disabling and uninstalling Flash Player in preparation for Adobe making the software obsolete....

  • January 23, 2021

    Windows RDP Servers Targeted In DDoS Attacks Windows RDP Servers Exploited for DDoS Attacks Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) servers are being used to weaponize ‘Distributed Denial of Service’ (DDoS) attacks. By default, the default TCP 3389 and / or...

  • January 19, 2021

    FreakOut Botnet Freaking Out Linux Administrators FreakOut Botnet Exploiting Linux Vulnerabilities A highly-sophisticated botnet known as FreakOut is targeting applications running on Linux operating systems which require immediate patching. Initial reports indicate this is primarily impacting Linux systems which have...

  • January 12, 2021

    January Patch Tuesday 2021 Fixes Critical Defender Bug Microsoft Patch Tuesday Released with 83 Fixes There are 10 Critical and 73 Important fixes this month for Microsoft Windows, Edge (Edge HTML-based), ChakraCore, Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps,...

  • December 9, 2020

    December Patch Tuesday 2020 Fixes 58 Vulnerabilities December Patch Tuesday Arrives with 58 Fixes To end the year, Microsoft has remediated 58 bugs including 9 Critical, 46 Important and 3 Moderate. Microsoft has fixed over 1,200 vulnerabilities to date, more than any other year. Fixes...