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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Microsoft warns that attackers are targeting two zero-day remote code execution vulnerabilities that exist in all versions of Windows – and a fix is not expected until the April patch Tuesday. The vulnerabilities exist in the Adobe Type Manager library which is a standard Windows component used primarily by Windows Explorer to display previews of
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Most Android devices receive security updates for only 2 years from release – yet can remain on sale for much longer than that. Which means it is possible to by a brand new Android phone today that is already too old to receive security updates. When considering which smartphones and tablets to deploy to staff,
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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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Kr00k is a serious Wi-Fi vulnerability which can trick a device to retransmit the last 32k of encrypted traffic with an encryption key of all zeros. The flaw affects devices using Wi-Fi chips from Broadcom and Cypress including Apple devices, Amazon Echo and Google Nexus devices. The bug can be triggered when a device disconnects
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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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Several critical switch vulnerabilities that could allow an attacker to break network segmentation have been patched by Cisco. Dubbed CDPwn by the researchers at Armis who discovered the flaws, the vulnerabilities exists in a Level 2 networking protocol called Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP). Network segmentation is an effective security strategy that isolates data and systems
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Ragnarok ransomware is leveraging unpatched Citrix ADC servers and Windows computers to attack its victims. Citrix have now released a patch for CVE-2019-19781 and made it available to all clients – regardless of the status of their support contract. However, unpatched Citrix systems are being actively targeted with Ragnarok according to security firm Fireye. CVE-2019-19781 is
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In recent years the main vendors of the operating systems and databases that run our businesses, schools and governments have made significant strides to provide a reliable stream of patches and upgrades which are easy to install or even automatically installed. Microsoft’s Patch Tuesday has been emulated by other vendors including Adobe and SAP. These
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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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