Security News

Should Social Media be Considered Part of Critical Infrastructure?
2017-11-30 14:42

Is Social Media a Critical Industry? read more

Cisco Patches Critical WebEx Vulnerabilities
2017-11-30 11:06

Updates released by Cisco for components of its online meetings and video conferencing platform WebEx patch nearly a dozen vulnerabilities, including critical flaws that can be exploited for...

Apple Patches Critical Root Access Flaw in macOS
2017-11-29 17:05

Apple has released a security update for macOS High Sierra in an effort to patch a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that can be easily exploited to gain root access to a system. read more

Critical macOS High Sierra bug allows easy root access
2017-11-29 15:10

If you’re using a Mac, and are running macOS High Sierra, drop everything that you’re doing and go and set/change the computer’s root password. Why? What’s happening? Turkish software developer...

Critical Apple Login Bug Puts macOS High Sierra Systems at Risk
2017-11-29 01:47

A major bug in Apple’s macOS High Sierra gives anyone with physical access to a system running the latest version of the OS root access simply by putting "root" in the user name field.

Critical Code Execution Flaw Found in Exim
2017-11-27 16:45

Serious vulnerabilities that can be exploited for remote code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks have been found in the popular mail transfer agent (MTA) software Exim. read more

Critical Flaws in Intel Processors Leave Millions of PCs Vulnerable
2017-11-21 03:33

In past few months, several research groups have uncovered vulnerabilities in the Intel remote administration feature known as the Management Engine (ME) which could allow remote attackers to gain...

Critical flaw in Cisco collaboration products plugged
2017-11-17 12:14

A critical vulnerability in a dozen Cisco collaboration products based on the Cisco Voice Operating System (VOS) could allow unauthenticated, remote attackers to gain access to an affected device....

For strong unified communications security, behavioral analytics is critical
2017-11-16 14:30

If there’s one thing security professionals should understand and acknowledge – whether they’re part of an organization’s multi-person IT security team or the CISO guiding that team – it’s that...

Critical Vulnerabilities Patched in Apache CouchDB
2017-11-16 11:18

An update released last week for Apache CouchDB patched critical vulnerabilities that could have been exploited by malicious actors for privilege escalation and code execution on a significant...