Security News

Apple devices get urgent patch for zero-day exploit – update now!
2021-03-27 13:17

Apple has just pushed out an emergency "One-bug" security update for its mobile devices, including iPhones, iPads and Apple Watches. Just like the last emergency Apple patch, this vulnerability affects WebKit, Apple's core web browser code.

Apple Issues Urgent Patch Update for Another Zero‑Day Under Attack
2021-03-27 01:51

Merely weeks after releasing out-of-band patches for iOS, iPadOS, macOS and watchOS, Apple has issued yet another security update for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch to fix a critical zero-day weakness that it says is being actively exploited in the wild. Apple has credited Clement Lecigne and Billy Leonard of Google's Threat Analysis Group for discovering and reporting the issue.

Critical RCE Vulnerability Found in Apache OFBiz ERP Software—Patch Now
2021-03-22 01:34

The Apache Software Foundation on Friday addressed a high severity vulnerability in Apache OFBiz that could have allowed an unauthenticated adversary to remotely seize control of the open-source enterprise resource planning system. Tracked as CVE-2021-26295, the flaw affects all versions of the software prior to 17.12.06 and employs an "Unsafe deserialization" as an attack vector to permit unauthorized remote attackers to execute arbitrary code on a server directly.

Critical RCE Flaw Reported in MyBB Forum Software—Patch Your Sites
2021-03-21 23:29

A pair of critical vulnerabilities in a popular bulletin board software called MyBB could have been chained together to achieve remote code execution without the need for prior access to a privileged account. The flaws, which were discovered by independent security researchers Simon Scannell and Carl Smith, were reported to the MyBB Team on February 22, following which it released an update on March 10 addressing the issues.

Exchange flaws could be much worse than thought: Six hacking groups suspected of using the zero days pre-patch
2021-03-15 12:30

It's looking like the exploitation of critical Exchange flaws that Microsoft revealed at the start of the month could be much worse than folks first suspected. An analysis by Slovak security shop ESET claims that six advanced criminal hacking groups, thought to have some level of state sponsorship, used the zero days to attack government and industry sites before the flaws were patched.

Veracode Hacker Games challenges university students to hack and patch real-life apps online
2021-03-15 01:00

Veracode announced the launch of the Veracode Hacker Games. The two-week collegiate competition will challenge computer science and cybersecurity student teams from eight leading universities across the U.S. and the U.K., including University of Virginia, Tufts and University of Warwick, to test their secure coding skills and give them the opportunity to win individual prizes, plus $15,000 in charitable donations for the top universities.

Critical Pre-Auth RCE Flaw Found in F5 Big-IP Platform — Patch ASAP!
2021-03-10 22:01

Application security company F5 Networks on Wednesday published an advisory warning of four critical vulnerabilities impacting multiple products that could result in a denial of service attack and even unauthenticated remote code execution on target networks. The four critical flaws affect BIG-IP versions 11.6 or 12.x and newer, with a critical pre-auth remote code execution also affecting BIG-IQ versions 6.x and 7.x. F5 said it's not aware of any public exploitation of these issues.

F5 urges customers to patch critical BIG-IP pre-auth RCE bug
2021-03-10 17:04

F5 Networks, a leading provider of enterprise networking gear, has announced four critical remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting most BIG-IP and BIG-IQ software versions. F5 BIG-IP software and hardware customers include governments, Fortune 500 firms, banks, internet service providers, and consumer brands, with the company claiming that "48 of the Fortune 50 rely on F5.".

F5 urges customers to patch 4 critical BIG-IP pre-auth RCE bugs
2021-03-10 17:04

F5 Networks, a leading provider of enterprise networking gear, has announced four critical remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting most BIG-IP and BIG-IQ software versions. F5 BIG-IP software and hardware customers include governments, Fortune 500 firms, banks, internet service providers, and consumer brands, with the company claiming that "48 of the Fortune 50 rely on F5.".

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, March 2021 Edition
2021-03-10 01:42

On the off chance you were looking for more security to-dos from Microsoft todaythe company released software updates to plug more than 82 security flaws in Windows and other supported software. This is probably a good place to quote Ghacks.net's Martin Brinkman: This is the last patch hurrah for the legacy Microsoft Edge web browser, which is being retired by Microsoft.