Firefox has rolled out a new Site Isolation feature that greatly improves the security of the web browser by isolating every domain visited into a separate process. This provides protection against Meltdown and Spectre style attacks and cross site attacks that attempt to thwart the Same-Origin policy. Known internally as Project Fission, this significant development […]
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A report from PaloAlto Networks coins a new security metric: Mean Time to Inventory in order to highlight the incredible speed with which attackers are now targeting new vulnerabilities as soon as they are publicly disclosed. The report is based on three month’s monitoring of 50 million IP addresses owned by global enterprises in order
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New research into the market for exploits on the Dark Web reveals that 61% of exploits sold target Microsoft products including Windows OS, Office, RDP and Internet Explorer. The research presented by Trend Micro at the RSA 2021 Conference this week is the result of a year-long study of 600 dark web forums and markets
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Design and Implementation flaws in Wi-Fi standards have been disclosed that could leave home and enterprise Wi-Fi networks vulnerable. The flaws are thought to affect all Wi-Fi systems from WEP through to the latest WPA3 security standard. The vulnerabilities have been named FragAttacks as they are mainly related to flaws in the way Wi-Fi fragments
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May Patch Tuesday sees four critical vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft and Adobe ships a fix for an Acrobat Reader zero-day that is under attack in the wild. Microsoft Patch Tuesday May 2021 55 vulnerabilities, 4 critical, are resolved in the May security patch bundle from Microsoft. Of particular note are: CVE-2021-31166 which is a Windows
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Over 25% of the TOR network exit nodes have been under the control of malicious actors who are performing man-in-the-middle attacks against network users. What is the TOR Network The TOR Network is a volunteer run network of relay servers that aims to provide anonymous and secure internet access that prevents its users from being
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21 critical vulnerabilities have been discovered in the Exim Email server, some of which can be exploited to perform full remote unauthenticated code execution and gain root privilege on the server. Called 21Nails, this set of vulnerabilities is, to the Unix world, as serious as the ProxyLogon vulnerabilities recently discovered in Microsoft Exchange Server. The
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For the last 12 years, a driver deployed on millions of Dell computer systems contains 5 severe vulnerabilities which can be exploited to take over the system. First reported by researchers at SentinelOne, the vulnerabilities allow a local user to escalate their privilege and obtain admin rights on the Windows operating system. The vulnerabilities are
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Microsoft Defender for Endpoint now works with Intel’s low level CPU hardware based Threat Detection Technology to spot and block cryptojacking malware. Intel Threat Detection Technology (TDT) uses machine learning to analyse low level telemetry from the CPU’s performance monitoring subsystem to identify that cryptomining is happening and then signals Microsoft Defender to do something
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Apple has released MacOS 11.3 which patches a critical zero-day bug that allows malware to bypass the built in Gatekeeper and Notarization protections designed to protect users from malicious software. The bug is already under active attack from Shlayer malware and because it is trivial to replicate, you can expect to see a slew of
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