TeamViewer Gmbh have released a patch for their Windows Desktop client to fix a credential leaking vulnerability which could allow a malicious webpage to obtain the hashed NTLM credentials of the active Windows user account. A simple flaw (CVE-2020-13699) in the way the TeamViewer desktop client handles custom URI handlers means a malicious webpage can […]
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The UK National Cyber Security Centre and CISA in the USA have issued a joint alert detailing the risk posed by the Qsnatch/Derek malware which attacks QNAP NAS devices. The National Cyber Security Centre states in the alert: All QNAP NAS devices are potentially vulnerable to QSnatch malware if not updated with the latest security
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Boothole is a pervasive vulnerability that affects the GRUB2 boot loader that is used by most versions of Linux. By exploiting this vulnerability, attackers can run arbitrary code on almost any PC or Server and install RootKits or similar Malware that will persist reboots and be very difficult to detect. BootHole was first reported by
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A report published by Barracuda Networks and researchers at UC Berkley which examines email compromise attacks at 111 organisations sheds light on how email is abused in cyber-attacks – often as the opening shot in the attack. The research reveals that 30% of the attacks were part of the emerging economy of ‘accounts for sale’
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Dell has patched a path-traversal vulnerability in the remote management web interface for its latest PowerEdge servers The iDRAC controller is a Linux computer within the PowerEdge server which is used to remotely manage the host server – even when the host itself is powered down. According to Dell’s security advisory: Dell EMC iDRAC9 versions
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Mozilla has suspended the new Firefox Send service just four months after in launched, due to criminals increasingly using it as a malware delivery platform. When it was launched, Firefox Send allowed files of up to 1Gb to be shared for free without needing to login or create an account. In a statement Mozilla advises:
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Tsunami is a security vulnerability scanner designed for very large networks – originally created by Google for scanning their own huge network. Google has now released Tsunami as an open source project – it is under active development and users are warned to expect significant changes in future releases. Security Managers responsible for very large
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Microsoft has released a patch to resolve a critical remote code execution vulnerability that has lived in the DNS server code for 17 years. A blog post from the Microsoft Security Response Centre states: Today we released an update for CVE-2020-1350, a Critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability in Windows DNS Server that is classified as a ‘wormable’ vulnerability and has a CVSS base score of 10.0. This issue results from a flaw
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The July patch bundle from SAP includes a critical patch to resolve a vulnerability in the NetWeaver application server which could allow an unauthenticated attacker to gain unrestricted access to the SAP environment and database. According to the description for the vulnerability recorded as CVE CVE-2020-6287 : SAP NetWeaver AS JAVA (LM Configuration Wizard), versions
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Mozilla and Google have confirmed they will be aligning with Apple and their browsers will reject any web server certificate issued after 1st September which is valid for more than a year. Apple announced the move to only support 1 year certificates back in February and now Mozilla and Google (and thus all the Chromium
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