Community detection: CVE-2020-16898

By Ben Reardon, Corelight Security Researcher This month’s Microsoft Patch Tuesday included a severe Remote Code Execution vulnerability in the way that Windows TCP/IP handles IPv6 “Router Advertisement” ICMP messages. Due to the severity and wide scop… Continue reading Community detection: CVE-2020-16898

Critical SonicWall VPN Portal Bug Allows DoS, Worming RCE

The CVE-2020-5135 stack-based buffer overflow security vulnerability is trivial to exploit, without logging in. Continue reading Critical SonicWall VPN Portal Bug Allows DoS, Worming RCE

Layered security becomes critical as malware attacks rise

Despite an 8% decrease in overall malware detections in Q2 2020, 70% of all attacks involved zero day malware – variants that circumvent antivirus signatures, which represents a 12% increase over the previous quarter, WatchGuard found. Malware de… Continue reading Layered security becomes critical as malware attacks rise

PoC Exploit Targeting Apache Struts Surfaces on GitHub

Researchers have discovered freely available PoC code and exploit that can be used to attack unpatched security holes in Apache Struts 2. Continue reading PoC Exploit Targeting Apache Struts Surfaces on GitHub

Qualcomm Bugs Open 40 Percent of Android Handsets to Attack

Researchers identified serious flaws in Qualcomm’s Snapdragon SoC and the Hexagon architecture that impacts nearly half of Android handsets. Continue reading Qualcomm Bugs Open 40 Percent of Android Handsets to Attack

High-Severity Cisco DoS Flaw Plagues Small-Business Switches

Cisco recently patched the high-severity flaw, which could allow remote, unauthenticated attackers to launch DoS attacks against its popular small business switches. Continue reading High-Severity Cisco DoS Flaw Plagues Small-Business Switches

C#, The Language For All Platforms – Now Including Windows 3.11 And DOS

The Microsoft .NET framework has been with us in one form or another since the millennium, and though it has remained largely the preserve of the Microsoft universe, it has found its way since then through a variety of implementations to other platforms including MacOS and GNU/Linux. In Microsoft terms …read more

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