Intel Fixes High-Severity Flaws in NUC, Discontinues Buggy Compute Module

Intel fixed nine high- and medium-severity flaws in its April security update, which could enable privilege escalation and denial of service attacks. Continue reading Intel Fixes High-Severity Flaws in NUC, Discontinues Buggy Compute Module

Adobe Patches Critical Bugs Affecting Media Encoder and After Effects

Adobe today released out-of-band software updates for After Effects and Media Encoder applications that patch a total of two new critical vulnerabilities.

Both critical vulnerabilities exist due to out-of-bounds write memory corruption issues and can … Continue reading Adobe Patches Critical Bugs Affecting Media Encoder and After Effects

Sudo Bug Lets Non-Privileged Linux and macOS Users Run Commands as Root

Joe Vennix of Apple security has found another significant vulnerability in sudo utility that under a specific configuration could allow low privileged users or malicious programs to execute arbitrary commands with administrative (‘root’) privileges on… Continue reading Sudo Bug Lets Non-Privileged Linux and macOS Users Run Commands as Root

Google Offers Financial Support to Open Source Projects for Cybersecurity

Besides rewarding ethical hackers from its pocket for responsibly reporting vulnerabilities in third-party open-source projects, Google today announced financial support for open source developers to help them arrange additional resources, prioritizing… Continue reading Google Offers Financial Support to Open Source Projects for Cybersecurity

Your Android Phone Can Get Hacked Just By Playing This Video

Are you using an Android device?

Beware! You should be more careful while playing a video on your smartphone—downloaded anywhere from the Internet or received through email.

That’s because, a specially crafted innocuous-looking video file can comprom… Continue reading Your Android Phone Can Get Hacked Just By Playing This Video

Microsoft Releases July 2019 Security Updates, 2 Flaws Under Active Attack

Microsoft today released its monthly batch of software security updates for the July month to patch a total of 77 vulnerabilities, 14 are rated Critical, 62 are Important, and 1 is rated Moderate in severity.

The July 2019 security updates include pat… Continue reading Microsoft Releases July 2019 Security Updates, 2 Flaws Under Active Attack

Important Flaw in Outlook App for Android Affects Over 100 Millions Users

Update (22 June 2019) — More technical details and proof-of-concept for the OutLook for Android vulnerability has been released that we have covered in a separate article here.

Microsoft today released an updated version of its “Outlook for Android” t… Continue reading Important Flaw in Outlook App for Android Affects Over 100 Millions Users

DHS Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Critical Flaws Within 15 Days

In recent years, we have seen how hackers prey on those too lazy or ignorant to install security patches, which, if applied on time, would have prevented some devastating cyber attacks and data breaches that happened in major organisations.

The United… Continue reading DHS Orders Federal Agencies to Patch Critical Flaws Within 15 Days

Adobe Releases Patches for Critical Flaws in Photoshop CC and Digital Edition

Adobe users would feel lighter this month, as Adobe has released patches for just two security vulnerability in its March Security Update.

The company today released its monthly security updates to address two critical arbitrary code execution vulnera… Continue reading Adobe Releases Patches for Critical Flaws in Photoshop CC and Digital Edition

Adobe Issues Emergency Patches for Two Critical Flaws in Acrobat and Reader

I hope you had biggest, happiest and craziest New Year celebration, but now it’s time to come back at work and immediately update your systems to patch new security flaws that could exploit your computer just by opening a PDF file.

Adobe has issued an… Continue reading Adobe Issues Emergency Patches for Two Critical Flaws in Acrobat and Reader