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Sonicwall critical Firewall RCE vulnerability

Sonicwall has released patches to fix a denial of service and remote code execution vulnerability in their Network Application Security appliances (virtual firewalls).  The vulnerability exists in the code which handles SSL VPN access – meaning it is usually exposed to the public internet. The vulnerability was discovered by researchers at Tripwire who describe the […]

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October Patch Tuesday includes critical Windows TCP/IP vulnerability

October’s security patch bundle from Microsoft resolves 87 vulnerabilities, 12 rated as critical.  One of these is a flaw in the Windows TCP/IP stack which can result in a server crash or remote code execution simply by sending a specially crafted ICMPv6 request. While it is technically challenging to achieve a remote code execution, the

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GitHub can now find security vulnerabilities in your code

After 4 months beta-testing, GitHub has rolled out a new source code scanning service that will find security vulnerabilities in your home-grown software or open source tools.  During the testing over 20,000 security vulnerabilities were discovered across 12,000 different projects including Remote Code Execution, SQL Injection and Cross Site-Scripting (XSS) flaws. GitHub is a Microsoft

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NatWest offers free security software to customers

NatWest Bank has partnered with Malwarebytes to provide endpoint protection software to NatWest customers.  Malwarebytes Premium edition will be available to download for free from within NatWest customer’s online banking portal.  NatWest is the only UK bank to provide premium virus protection to their customers according to Alasdair MacFarlane, Head of Fraud Prevention at NatWest.

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Ransomware claims drop dramatically after mandatory scans

An innovative American insurance company, Corvus, has reported a drop of 65% in ransomware claims after they started insisting on vulnerability scans of the client’s network before providing cyber-insurance. Lauren Winchester of Corvus states in a recent blog post: Our automated scan locates threats like unprotected RDP upon quoting for new business and we notify

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