Magento Patches Critical SQL Injection and RCE Vulnerabilities

Magento patched 37 flaws Thursday, including a stored cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability that could have let an attacker take over a site. Continue reading Magento Patches Critical SQL Injection and RCE Vulnerabilities

Latest Drupal RCE Flaw Used by Cryptocurrency Miners and Other Attackers

Another remote code execution vulnerability has been revealed in Drupal, the popular open-source Web content management system. One exploit — still working at time of this writing — has been used in dozens of unsuccessful attacks against ou… Continue reading Latest Drupal RCE Flaw Used by Cryptocurrency Miners and Other Attackers

Flaw in Popular Transmission BitTorrent Client Lets Hackers Control Your PC Remotely

A critical vulnerability has been discovered in the widely used Transmission BitTorrent app that could allow hackers to remotely execute malicious code on BitTorrent users’ computers and take control of them.

The vulnerability has been uncovered by Go… Continue reading Flaw in Popular Transmission BitTorrent Client Lets Hackers Control Your PC Remotely

Google Finds 7 Security Flaws in Widely Used Dnsmasq Network Software

Security researchers have discovered not one or two, but a total of seven security vulnerabilities in the popular open source Dnsmasq network services software, three of which could allow remote code execution on a vulnerable system and hijack it.

Dns… Continue reading Google Finds 7 Security Flaws in Widely Used Dnsmasq Network Software

Apache Struts 2 Flaws Affect Multiple Cisco Products

After Equifax massive data breach that was believed to be caused due to a vulnerability in Apache Struts, Cisco has initiated an investigation into its products that incorporate a version of the popular Apache Struts2 web application framework.

Apache… Continue reading Apache Struts 2 Flaws Affect Multiple Cisco Products

PCs with Intel Server Chipsets, Launched Since 2010, Can be Hacked Remotely

Updated: Since the below-reported vulnerability is highly critical and it would take a few weeks for sysadmins to protect their enterprise network, the research team has not yet disclosed the technical details of the vulnerability.

Meanwhile, I have t… Continue reading PCs with Intel Server Chipsets, Launched Since 2010, Can be Hacked Remotely

Critical Flaws in MySQL Give Hackers Root Access to Server (Exploits Released)

Over a month ago we reported about two critical zero-day vulnerabilities in the world’s 2nd most popular database management software MySQL:

MySQL Remote Root Code Execution (CVE-2016-6662)
Privilege Escalation (CVE-2016-6663)

At that time, Polish se… Continue reading Critical Flaws in MySQL Give Hackers Root Access to Server (Exploits Released)