Since early May, the city of Baltimore has struggled to recover IT systems following a ransomware attack that has left many departments unable to function or even send and receive emails. Citizens have been unable to complete house sales, pay their water bills or receive health alerts. The RobbinHood malware that has attacked the city’s […]
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The world’s most popular mail server is vulnerable to a remote command execution flaw Exim is the world’s most popular mail server, with 57% of the mail servers connected to the web running Exim (as of June 2019). The vulnerability reported by Qualys (CVE-2019-10149) affects Exim versions 4.87 to 4.91 inclusive running on several Linux
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All Linux kernels prior to 5.0.8 are vulnerable to a race condition vulnerability which can allow remote code execution. The vulnerability in the RDS (Reliable Datagram Socket) module can lead to a use after free condition which can be leveraged to achieve remote code execution by sending specially crafted TCP packets to a vulnerable server.
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A team including some of the researchers who discovered the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities in AMD and Intel CPU announced a new class of vulnerability affecting Intel CPU which they called Zombieload. Like Spectre and Meltdown, the Zombieload vulnerability exploits weaknesses in the implementation of speculative execution in Intel CPUs. The different attack names reflect
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Dell SupportAssist software prior to 3.2.0.90 contains two critical remote code execution vulnerabilities. Dell has just released a new version of their SupportAssist software which comes pre-installed on most systems to correct CVE-2019-3719. A 17 year old security researcher discovered a weakness in the way the Dell software validated the identity of the dell.com website. This made
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LightNeuron is a backdoor specifically designed to target Microsoft Exchange mail servers. It permits attackers to read and reroute all email passing through the server and execute commands on the server hidden in incoming email attachments. A recent paper published by ESET describes how the malware functions and the risks it poses. The researcher says:
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Compared to Q1 2018, malware detections in businesses has increased 235% while dropping 24% for consumers. Anti-virus and security firm Malwarebytes reports in their latest Cybercrime Tactics and Techniques report that cybercriminals are following the money and shifting their focus from consumers to businesses that have more valuable assets and possibly the financial resources to
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What is pen-testing and how does it keep your business secure? Penetration testing defined Penetration testing is a form of ethical hacking, where organisations ask a trusted expert to try to penetrate (access) their network and systems. A penetration test plays a crucial role in identifying vulnerabilities on your critical infrastructure – systems, networks, and
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Many modern software factories adopting Agile development methodologies also take on the tools of Atlassian such as Jira to managed their feature backlog and Confluence for documentation. A critical path traversal vulnerability has been discovered in the on-premises version of Confluence Server and Data Centre which will allow a remote user who has permission to
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A recently disclosed absolute path traversal bug in the WinRAR utility is being actively leveraged in at least 100 unique exploits according to security firm McAfee. WinRAR is a file archiver/unarchiver for the Windows platform, popular in part as it is distributed as trialware which has led to over 500 million users installing it. The
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