Author: DEFENDEDGE

Lookout’s Hank Schless discusses accelerated threats to mobile endpoints in the age of COVID-19-sparked remote working. Read more

Original release date: December 3, 2020 Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in iCloud for Windows. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages users and administrators to review the Apple security page for iCloud for Windows 11.5… Read more

Patches for a flaw (CVE-2020-8913) in the Google Play Core Library have not been implemented by several popular Google Play apps, including Cisco Teams and Edge. Read more

Original release date: December 3, 2020 IBM X-Force has released a report on malicious cyber actors targeting the COVID-19 cold chain—an integral part of delivering and storing a vaccine at safe temperatures. Impersonating a biomedical company, cyber actors are sending phishing and spearphishing emails to executives and global organizations involved in vaccine storage and transport… Read more

The feds have seen ongoing cyberattacks on think-tanks (bent on espionage, malware delivery and more), using phishing and VPN exploits as primary attack vectors. Read more

CISA warns the leading enterprise document management platform is open to attack and urges companies to apply fixes. Read more

The post-COVID-19 surge in the criticality level of medical infrastructure, coupled with across-the-board digitalization, will be big drivers for medical-sector cyberattacks next year. Read more

Original release date: December 2, 2020 Mozilla has released a security update to address a vulnerability in Thunderbird. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Thunderbird 78.5.1 and apply the necessary… Read more

Original release date: December 2, 2020 Xerox has released security updates for DocuShare 6.6.1, 7.0, and 7.5 to address a vulnerability that could allow an unauthenticated attacker to obtain sensitive information. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) urges users and administrators review Xerox Mini Bulletin XRX20W and apply the necessary updates. This product is… Read more

Researcher Ian Beer from Google Project Zero took six months to figure out the radio-proximity exploit of a memory corruption bug that was patched in May. Read more