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:...
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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...
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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...
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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,...
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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...
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November 18, 2020
Identifying Endpoints with SolarWinds® Orion® Software Syxsense Allows Users to Scan for SolarWinds® Orion® Vulnerability By now, everyone should be aware of the significant hack linked to security vulnerabilities in SolarWinds® Orion® software - https://www.solarwinds.com/securityadvisory. The team at Syxsense has...
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November 13, 2020
Google Chrome 86.0.4240.198 Released to Fix Weaponized Threats Google Releases Fixes for Weaponized Threats On November 11, 2020 Google has updated the Google Chrome Browser for Windows, MacOS and Linux to version 86.0.4240.198. This update closes two security flaws which...
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November 6, 2020
Patch Now: Cisco Webex Meetings Vulnerability Cisco Urges Users to Patch for Webex Vulnerability Cisco has found a flaw which allows attackers to execute arbitrary code with the user's privileges when running Cisco Webex Meetings Virtual Desktop App for Windows....
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October 23, 2020
New Chrome Zero-Day Under Active Attack Google Chrome Zero-Day Vulnerability Google has released Chrome 86.0.4240.111 today to patch high-severity issues, including a zero-day vulnerability that has been exploited in the wild. This is currently impacting Windows, Linux and Mac OS....
