Microsoft’s September Patch Tuesday covered 80 CVEs, 17 of which were rated critical, and included patches for Azure DevOps Server, Chakra Scripting engine, and Microsoft SharePoint. Sixty-two were labeled as important and included patches for Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Edge, and Microsoft Exchange. Only one was rated as moderate.
Read MoreJuly proves to be pretty busy for both software vendors and security researchers as various zero-day vulnerabilities were reported. In this month’s patch Tuesday, Microsoft addressed the recently discovered zero-day vulnerability in Internet Explorer that also emerged from the Hacking Team leak. The said vulnerability, covered in MS15-065 and rated as ‘critical’, could allow attackers…
Read MoreBest practices are failing. No matter how good you are at sticking to them, they can no longer guarantee your safety against the simplest threats we saw last quarter. Malicious advertisements are in the sites you frequent, data-leaking apps come preinstalled in your gadgets, and data-encrypting malware run silently in your office networks. Even the…
Read MorephpMoAdmin (short for PHP MongoDB administration tool) is a free and open source MongoDB GUI tool. phpMoAdmin is written in PHP and is a popular administration tool to manage the noSQL database MongoDB. A zero-day remote code execution vulnerability was seen in phpMoAdmin which allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code without requiring any authentication. The…
Read MoreMuch has been reported about the recent discovery of a cyber-espionage campaign that was launched by a group known as the “Sandworm Team.” At the very heart of this incident—a zero-day vulnerability affecting all supported versions of Microsoft Windows and Windows Server 2008 and 2012. In our analysis, the vulnerability may allow attackers to execute…
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