Security News

Critical Flaws Found in Amazon FreeRTOS IoT Operating System
2018-10-19 08:48

A security researcher has discovered several critical vulnerabilities in one of the most popular embedded real-time operating systems—called FreeRTOS—and its other variants, exposing a wide range...

GreyEnergy Spy APT Mounts Sophisticated Effort Against Critical Infrastructure
2018-10-18 15:08

The group is a successor to BlackEnergy and a subset of the TeleBots gang--and its activity is potentially a prelude to a much more destructive attack.

Oracle Fixes 301 Flaws in October Critical Patch Update
2018-10-17 18:49

The update includes one critical flaw in Oracle GoldenGate with a CVSS 3.0 score of 10.0.

Critical Vulnerabilities Allow Takeover of D-Link Routers
2018-10-17 11:23

Researchers have found several vulnerabilities that can be exploited to take full control of some D-Link routers, and patches do not appear to be available. Serious flaws have also been discovered...

GreyEnergy group targeting critical infrastructure with espionage
2018-10-17 10:00

ESET has uncovered details of a successor to the BlackEnergy APT group. Named GreyEnergy by ESET, this threat actor focuses on espionage and reconnaissance, quite possibly in preparation for...

Safeguarding Critical Infrastructure From Cyberattacks
2018-10-12 17:48

The biggest challenge for any critical infrastructure facing potential cyberattacks is devising ways to maintain business continuity, says cybersecurity specialist Prashant Pillai, who calls for...

Audit Finds No Critical Flaws in Firefox Update System
2018-10-11 14:20

An audit commissioned by Mozilla for the Firefox update system revealed no critical vulnerabilities and the flaws rated "high severity" were not easy to exploit. read more

Update now! Microsoft fixes 49 bugs, 12 are critical
2018-10-11 11:05

Microsoft’s October Patch Tuesday update made its scheduled appearance on Tuesday with fixes for 49 security flaws across its family of products, 12 of which are listed as ‘critical’.

Four Critical Flaws Patched in Adobe Digital Edition
2018-10-10 13:57

Adobe Digital Edition has four critical bugs enabling arbitrary code execution.