For 20 years a small two person firm in Ohio has licensed their TCP/IP software stack for use in embedded systems and IoT devices – from printers to medical devices. In June a collection of 19 vulnerabilities in this software was disclosed – affecting millions of devices from 50 different vendors. The collection of vulnerabilities […]
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A Zero-Day Remote Code Execution vulnerability affects 79 different Netgear routers With the significant increase in home-working due to the COVID pandemic, the security of home workers’ connectivity is under scrutiny. Security researchers have detailed a serious vulnerability in the firmware of many Netgear routers popular in small and home office set-ups. The vulnerability exists
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Amazon Web Services has revealed that in May 2020 it deflected the largest ever recorded DDoS attack. The previous largest Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack had been against GitHub in 2018 which was measured at 1.3 Terabits (Thousand Billion bits per second) – the attack against AWS in May was almost double at 2.3
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Security software provider LastPass has published their third Annual Global Password Security Report which reveals the extent of password reuse. LastPass has analysed the anonymised data and usage patterns of their enterprise password vault used by 47,000 organisations around the world. Some key data points from the report: For Businesses under 25 employees the average
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VideoLAN has released a patch for their popular VLC Media player software to resolve a remote code execution vulnerability The VLC open source media player is widely used in domestic and enterprise environments for playback of all kinds of video files and digital signage applications. In a security bulletin, the developer state that: If successful, a malicious
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The developers of the OpenSSH implementation of Secure Shell have announced their intention to drop support for SHA-1 in a ‘near future release.’ OpenSSH is used by millions of system administrators to securely access networked systems. OpenSSH supports various encryption algorithms and the decision to drop support for SHA-1 comes as recent research demonstrates it
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In June 2020 Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday fixes a record 129 defects and vulnerabilities in its software – with a further 19 patches in the June Microsoft Office patch bundle. This continues a recent trend of ever-increasing numbers of patches included in the monthly updates from Microsoft (the two previous highest number of patches were in
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Microsoft has pushed back the end of support dates for a raft of software versions in order to ease the burden on stretched IT teams during the COVID19 pandemic. Organisations have to keep their systems updated with supported versions of software in order to benefit from the monthly security patches which are essential for network
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April’s patch Tuesday release from Microsoft includes fixes for three zero-day vulnerabilities in Windows that are under active attack. CVE-2020-1020 is a flaw in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library. According to Microsoft: For all systems except Windows 10, an attacker who successfully exploited the vulnerability could execute code remotely. For systems running Windows 10,
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We are very pleased to announce that we are now ISO 9001 & 27001 accredited. Achieving these accreditations as an organisation, allows us to demonstrate to our customers and partners that we place both quality assurance and information security at the forefront of our business and that we are commited to achieving a standard of
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