Patch Tuesday

Logitech IoT Harmony Hub Fixes Several Security Flaws Harmony Hub-based products, which include Harmony Elite, Home Hub, Ultimate Hub, Home Control, Pro, Smart Control, Smart Keyboard, Ultimate Home, and Harmony Hub are potentially vulnerable to four types of vulnerabilities that...

Manage Your Vulnerabilities As we explored in our Total Meltdown article, some updates actually made Windows 7 less secure in the last round of Microsoft Patch Tuesday. Even worse, some caused significant performance issues on older hardware models. Many industry...

Are you ready for IoT Patching? Tech firm Hanwha Techwin is racing to fix 13 critical security holes found in its popular line of SmartCam security cameras. The patch rollout is part of public disclosure of the vulnerabilities set for...

Telegram Messenger Exploited Again Back in March 2017 we saw “Secure” WhatsApp and Telegram messenger applications being exploited by the user receiving a seemingly harmless image file which actually hosts malicious HTML code. This code directs them to a webpage...

Patch Priorities and Dealing with Spectre Systems with microprocessors utilizing speculative execution and branch prediction may allow unauthorized disclosure of information to an attacker with local user access via a side-channel analysis. This has been widely breaking the news over...

On the 12th day of December, Verismic sent to me … Top 10 Breaches of 2017! Throughout this year we have been breaking some of the worst IT security breaches of 2017, which have impacted millions of users worldwide.  We...

Russia Caught On Top Towards the end of October, we started to see a flow of ransomware attacks from Russia with called Bad Rabbit. This epidemic has been targeting organizations and consumers, mostly in Russia but there have also been...

Should Third-Party Really Be your Second Priority? If you have a patching strategy delivering Microsoft updates on a routine basis, you should extend that capacity to include third-party updates. Just a couple weeks ago, we discovered a massive compromise in...

Patch Now: Microsoft Fixes Zero-Day Flaw Two major security flaws were addressed in the latest Patch Tuesday update. The first was a zero-day vulnerability that is currently being used in attacks against Russian-speaking users. The second is a response to...

Money Well Spent Every dollar of fraud to merchants and firms in the retail and financial services sector is estimated to cost $2.66 on average, said a new fraud report. The LexisNexis Fraud Multiplier estimates the total amount of loss a business...