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Critical flaws open Foscam C1 IP cameras to compromise

November 14, 2017

Cisco Talos researcher Claudio Bozzato has unearthed a dozen of critical vulnerabilities affecting the Foscam C1 series of indoor HD cameras. The Foscam C1 is one of the most …

Tor Browser flaw leaks users’ real IP address

November 6, 2017

The Tor Project has issued an emergency security bugfix release of Tor Browser, to prevent user IP address leakage due to a still unpatched Firefox bug. The bug is present …

Apple protects its Wi-Fi enabled devices from KRACK attack

November 2, 2017

Apple has released security updates for its many popular products, and has finally plugged the recently unveiled WPA2 flaws that allow attackers to extract sensitive …

WordPress site admins: Update immediately!

November 2, 2017

If you’re running your website on WordPress and you haven’t yet upgraded to version 4.8.3, you should do so without delay. The advice comes from the WordPress …

Oracle releases emergency Oracle Identity Manager patch

October 31, 2017

Oracle has issued an out-of-cycle patch that plugs a critical vulnerability (CVE-2017-10151), affecting Oracle Identity Manager, its widely-used enterprise identity management …

Cisco plugs WPA2 holes, critical Cloud Services Platform flaw

October 19, 2017

Cisco has released updates to address vulnerabilities in a wide variety of its products. Among these are updates fixing the WPA2 vulnerabilities that can be exploited in the …

Oracle fixes 252 vulnerabilities in October 2017 Critical Patch Update

October 18, 2017

Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update (CPU) for October 2017, addressing 252 vulnerabilities across the wide multitude of its products. Compared to the July 2017 CPU, …

Adobe releases emergency fix for Flash Player zero-day exploited in the wild

October 17, 2017

Adobe has released an out-of-band security update for Adobe Flash Player that patches a zero-day remote code execution vulnerability actively exploited in the wild. Kaspersky …

October Patch Tuesday: 61 bugs and one zero-day fixed

October 11, 2017

For its October Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has patched 61 vulnerabilities (27 of them critical) and one Office zero-day labeled as “important.” The zero-day The …

Patching discrepancy between supported Windows versions puts users at risk

October 9, 2017

Security improvements should be a welcome addition to all software, but if they are not also simultaneously backported into its older and still supported versions, they can …

PoC for several Magento vulnerabilities released, update now!

October 5, 2017

DefenseCode has published proof of concept code for two CSRF and stored XSS vulnerabilities affecting a number of versions of the popular e-commerce platform Magento. Magento …

Widely used DNS forwarder and DHCP server Dnsmasq riddled with flaws

October 3, 2017

Google researchers have discovered seven serious vulnerabilities in Dnsmasq, a lightweight, widely used DNS forwarder and DHCP server for small computer networks. Dnsmasq is …