Security News > 2018

Oracle Fixes Spectre, Meltdown Flaws With Critical Patch Update
2018-01-17 12:32

Oracle on Tuesday released its first Critical Patch Update for 2018 to deliver 237 new security fixes across its product portfolio. Over half of the addressed vulnerabilities could be remotely...

Article from a Former Chinese PLA General on Cyber Sovereignty
2018-01-17 12:23

Interesting article by Major General Hao Yeli, Chinese People's Liberation Army (ret.), a senior advisor at the China International Institute for Strategic Society, Vice President of China...

BlackBerry in Motion: Firm Aims to Secure Cars From Hackers
2018-01-17 11:18

With Jarvis, BlackBerry Targets Connected - and Driverless - Vehicle SecurityBlackBerry mobile devices have become a rare sight. But drivers of Audi, GM and Mercedes vehicles may be using the...

DNS Servers Crash Due to BIND Security Flaw
2018-01-17 08:25

Updates released by the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) for BIND patch a remotely exploitable security flaw that has caused some DNS servers to crash. read more

Abandoned by Microsoft, Equation Editor gets “security-adopted” by micropatch pros
2018-01-16 21:48

Last week, Microsoft did away with Equation Editor, a tool that has been part of Microsoft Office for over 17 years. The reason behind the move? A remote code execution vulnerability actively...

Google Chrome Once Again Target of Malicious Extensions
2018-01-16 21:33

Researchers at network security vendor ICEBRG recently discovered four malicious extensions in the official Google Chrome Web Store with a combined user count of more than 500,000, and as with...

Lenovo Patches Networking OS Vulnerability Dating Back to 2004
2018-01-16 20:56

A bug in Lenovo’s Enterprise Networking Operating System could allow an attacker to launch an authentication bypass attack.

What Makes ONC's 'Trusted Exchange Framework' So Complex?
2018-01-16 20:47

Federal regulator's recently issued draft for a "trusted exchange framework" aimed at propelling nationwide, secure, interoperable, query-based health data exchange is a complex proposal that...

Mirai Variant Targets ARC CPU-Based Devices
2018-01-16 20:07

A newly discovered variant of the Mirai Internet of Things (IoT) botnet is targeting devices with ARC (Argonaut RISC Core) embedded processors, researchers warn. read more

DoS attacks against hard disk drives using acoustic signals
2018-01-16 19:31

A group of Princeton and Purdue researchers has shown that it’s possible to mount a denial-of-service (DoS) attack against hard disk drives via acoustic signals. Threat severity Hard disk drives...