Statistics released by GOV.UK suggest that the number of small to medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in the UK has increased by 2 million over the last two decades. There are now an estimated 5.5 million SMEs operating across the country. Mobile apps are essential for the success of SMEs. Financial-related apps, such as Paypal, QuickBooks, […]
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A new vulnerability has been discovered that can allow a malicious document to run arbitrary code on a Windows computer. Although the obvious attack vector is MS Office documents, Microsoft is describing this as a Windows Operating System vulnerability according to CVE-2022-30190. A Word Document was found to be able to abuse the Microsoft Windows
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Apple has released iOS 14.4 which contains fixes for two critical security vulnerabilities which they admit may have been actively exploited in the wild. The first flaw (CVE-2021-1871, CVE-2021-1870) in iOS and iPadOS is a WebKit vulnerability which could be exploited by a malicious webpage in the Safari browser to execute arbitrary code on the
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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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A serious vulnerability, dubbed Ghostcat, has been discovered in Apache Tomcat and criminals are already trying to exploit it. Tomcat is one of the most popular Java application servers, with over 800k active installations visible on the web. According to the researchers who discovered the bug at Chaitin Tech: Due to a flaw in the
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From September 2020 the security certificates used to enable HTTPS communications can only be valid for a maximum of 13 months, says Apple. Since the Apple Safari browser enjoys a 17% market share, this restriction will likely force the whole industry to adopt the same limit in certificate lifespan. The Certificate Authority Browser Forum (CAB
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A bug has been found in the SUDO command which can allow an attacker to gain root privilege on Linux and Unix systems, even for users that do not have permission to run SUDO. SUDO is a security tool used daily in most organisations. SUDO allows users to execute a specific command with escalated privilege
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In a recent whitepaper, Microsoft provides advice on how to spot RDP attacks in Windows event logs while the attack is still underway. The paper titled: “Data science for cybersecurity: A probabilistic time series model for detecting RDP inbound brute force attacks” succinctly explains the risk posed by RDP servers when published to the internet:
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Cable Haunt is a vulnerability in millions of cable modems which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the modem. This vulnerability is interesting for two reasons – firstly the scale due to the number of vulnerable devices and secondly how the vulnerability came about. Cable Haunt is a buffer overflow defect in the
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