Security News

Only 36% of critical infrastructures have a high level of cyber resilience
2020-05-21 04:00

The research investigated the cyber resilience of organizations operating in the energy, finance, health, telecommunications, transport and water industries, located in the world's five largest economies: UK, US, Germany, France and Japan. Of the 370 companies surveyed, only 36 percent had achieved a high level of cyber resilience.

Adobe Patches Critical RCE Flaw in Character Animator App
2020-05-19 15:44

Adobe has issued an out-of-band patch for a critical flaw in Adobe Character Animator, its application for creating live motion-capture animation videos. Users are urged to update to version 3.3 for Windows and macOS. While the flaw is critical, the security bulletin is a Priority 3 update, which according to Adobe resolves vulnerabilities in a product that has historically not been a target for attackers.

CISOs are critical to thriving companies: Here’s how to support their efforts
2020-05-19 05:30

According to a 2019 survey of cybersecurity professionals, these critical data defenders were burned out. As companies hurdle toward digital transformation, automation, cloud computing, brand reputation, and strategic investments are falling on CISOs' plate.

U.S. Restriction on Chipmakers Deals Critical Blow to Huawei
2020-05-18 11:07

The latest U.S. sanctions on tech giant Huawei threaten to devastate the company and escalate a feud with China that could disrupt technology industries worldwide. Huawei Technologies Ltd. is one of the biggest makers of smartphones and network equipment, but that $123 billion-a-year business is in jeopardy after Washington announced further restrictions on use of American technology by foreign companies that make its processor chips.

New features in Nutanix’s HCI platform simplify disaster recovery to protect business critical apps
2020-05-14 00:00

Nutanix, a leader in enterprise cloud computing, announced several new capabilities in its hyperconverged infrastructure software and AHV hypervisor to protect business-critical applications and maintain continuous business operations in the face of a possible disaster. The new capabilities in Nutanix HCI and AHV help enable customers to confidently deliver mission-critical applications with significantly less complexity and lower management overhead. "Maintaining continuous business operations is a high priority for all types of companies and organizations," said Greg Smith, VP of Product Marketing at Nutanix.

SAP's May 2020 Security Updates Include Six Critical Patches
2020-05-13 14:02

SAP's May 2020 Security Patch Day updates, which the company released on Tuesday, include a total of 18 Security Notes and 4 updates to previous Notes, with six of them rated Hot News. This month, SAP released another update to a Hot News Security Note released in April 2018, which includes security patches for Chromium browser controls in Business Client.

Adobe Kills 16 Critical Flaws in Acrobat and Reader, Digital Negative SDK
2020-05-12 16:02

Adobe has fixed 16 critical flaws across its Acrobat and Reader applications and its Adobe Digital Negative Software Development Kit. Those include 24 critical- and important-severity flaws in its Acrobat and Reader application, used for creating and managing PDF files, and 12 in its Adobe DNG Software Development Kit, which provides support for reading and writing DNG files used for digital photography.

An Undisclosed Critical Vulnerability Affect vBulletin Forums — Patch Now
2020-05-11 12:11

If you are running an online discussion forum based on vBulletin software, make sure it has been updated to install a newly issued security patch that fixes a critical vulnerability. Maintainers of the vBulletin project recently announced an important patch update but didn't reveal any information on the underlying security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2020-12720.

An Undisclosed Critical Vulnerability Affect vBulletin Forums — Patch Now
2020-05-11 12:11

If you are running an online discussion forum based on vBulletin software, make sure it has been updated to install a newly issued security patch that fixes a critical vulnerability. Maintainers of the vBulletin project recently announced an important patch update but didn't reveal any information on the underlying security vulnerability, identified as CVE-2020-12720.

vBulletin fixes critical vulnerability, patch immediately!
2020-05-11 11:08

If you're using vBulletin to power your online forum(s), you should implement the newest security patches offered by the developers as soon as possible. The patches fix CVE-2020-12720, a vulnerability affecting versions 5.5.6, 5.6.0 and 5.6.1 with could be exploited without previous authentication.