Security News > 2019 > February

ThreatList: Porn-Focused Malware Triples, Dark Web Loves It
2019-02-21 19:01

Premium-access credentials to porn sites are hot in the cyber-underground, as credential-harvesting malware proliferates.

Google's Nest Hub Has a Microphone It Forgot to Mention
2019-02-21 17:46

Google said Wednesday it forgot to mention that it included a microphone in its Nest Secure home alarm system, the latest privacy flub by one of the tech industry’s leading collectors of personal...

Cisco Patches High Severity Flaws in HyperFlex, Prime Infrastructure
2019-02-21 17:19

Cisco this week released patches for more than a dozen vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including high severity flaws in HyperFlex, Prime Infrastructure, and Prime Collaboration...

Adobe Re-Patches Critical Acrobat Reader Flaw
2019-02-21 17:05

Adobe has issued yet another patch for a critical vulnerability in its Acrobat Reader - a week after the original fix.

Adobe Releases Second Patch for Data Leakage Flaw in Reader
2019-02-21 16:53

Adobe on Thursday released a second fix for the Reader vulnerability tracked as CVE 2019-7089 after the researcher who discovered the flaw managed to bypass the first patch. The security hole,...

Black-hat sextortionists required: Competitive salary and dental plan
2019-02-21 16:33

Cybercrims aren't just raking it in – they're dishing it out too Extortionists are promising salaries of more than a quarter of a million pounds to skilled infosec folk willing to put on a black...

How to set the AppArmor mode for a service in Ubuntu Server
2019-02-21 16:26

If you work with a service outside of its standard behavior, you may need to change its AppArmor profile mode.

How to regenerate certificates on VMware host servers
2019-02-21 16:13

Regenerating certificates may securely resolve authentication traffic, which is not being properly encrypted.

Windows Servers Vulnerable to DoS Attacks, Microsoft Warns
2019-02-21 16:02

Microsoft informed users on Wednesday that Windows servers running Internet Information Services (IIS) are vulnerable to denial-of-service (DoS) attacks that rely on malicious HTTP/2 requests. read more

Highly Critical Drupal RCE Flaw Affects Millions of Websites
2019-02-21 15:54

Admins should update immediately to fix a remote code-execution vulnerability.