Security News

In wake of recent attacks, it’s time to revisit your patch policy
2017-10-06 14:30

Hurricanes hammered the United States last month and cyber attacks continue to rain down throughout the world. The EternalBlue v1SMB vulnerability continues to be a focus of attacks. Recent...

Emergency Apple Patch Fixes High Sierra Password Hint Leak
2017-10-06 09:42

Apple rushed out an emergency patch that fixed an bug in High Sierra that revealed APFS volume passwords via the password hint feature.

Equifax Ex-CEO Blames One Employee For Patch Failures
2017-10-05 11:18

Did Breach Result From a Perfect Storm, or Were Failures Business as Usual?Equifax ex-CEO Richard Smith asserts that a single employee's failure to heed a security alert led to them failing to...

Equifax Warned About Vulnerability, Didn't Patch It: Ex-CEO
2017-10-02 19:41

The security team at Equifax failed to patch a vulnerability in March after getting a warning about the flaw, opening up the credit agency to a breach affecting 143 million people, the former...

Equifax breach happened because of a missed patch
2017-09-14 17:14

The attackers who breached Equifax managed to do so by exploiting a vulnerability in its US website, the company has finally confirmed. The vulnerability in question was Apache Struts...

Equifax Suffered Data Breach After It Failed to Patch Old Apache Struts Flaw
2017-09-14 01:38

The massive Equifax data breach that exposed highly sensitive data of as many as 143 million people was caused by exploiting a flaw in Apache Struts framework, which Apache patched over two months...

Patch Tuesday: 80+ vulnerabilities fixed, one exploited in the wild
2017-09-13 18:53

As part of its regular, monthly Patch Tuesday update, Microsoft has released patches for 81 new vulnerabilities, including a zero-day in the .NET Framework. The September patch dump also includes...

Immediately Patch Windows 0-Day Flaw That's Being Used to Spread Spyware
2017-09-13 04:09

Get ready to install a fairly large batch of security patches onto your Windows computers. As part of its September Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released a large batch of security updates to patch...

Patch your Android device to foil Toast Overlay attacks (Help Net Security)
2017-09-08 20:29

Overlay attacks are nothing new for Android users, and Palo Alto Networks Unit 42 researchers have found yet another way for attackers to perpetrate them. An “overlay attack” allows an attacker’s...

Smiths Medical to Patch Serious Flaws in Syringe Infusion Pumps (Security Week)
2017-09-08 10:47

Minnesota-based speciality medical device manufacturer Smiths Medical is working to address several potentially serious vulnerabilities affecting some of the company’s wireless syringe infusion...