Category: alerts

It took just 15 seconds to hack the latest, greatest, shiniest iPhone 13 Pro on stage at the Tianfu Cup in October, using a now-fixed iOS kernel bug. Read more

December’s Patch Tuesday updates address six publicly known bugs and seven critical security vulnerabilities. Read more

Original release date: December 14, 2021 SAP has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the SAP Security Notes for December 2021 and apply the necessary updates. This product is provided subject… Read more

Original release date: December 14, 2021 Microsoft has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. CISA encourages users and administrators to review Microsoft’s December 2021 Security Update Summary and Deployment Information and apply the necessary updates.  … Read more

An exclusive roundtable of security researchers discuss the specific implications of CVE-2021-44228 for smaller businesses, including what’s vulnerable, what an attack looks like and to how to remediate. Read more

Podcast: Cybereason shares details about its vaccine: a fast shot in the arm released within hours of the Apache Log4j zero-day horror show being disclosed. Read more

Original release date: December 13, 2021 CISA and its partners, through the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative, are tracking and responding to active, widespread exploitation of a critical remote code execution vulnerability (CVE-2021-44228) affecting Apache Log4j software library versions 2.0-beta9 to 2.14.1. Log4j is very broadly used in a variety of consumer and enterprise services, websites,… Read more

Original release date: December 13, 2021   High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info accops — hyworks_dvm_tools A Buffer Overflow vulnerability exists in Accops HyWorks DVM Tools prior to v3.3.1.105. The IOCTL Handler 0x22001B allows local attackers to execute arbitrary code in kernel mode or cause a denial… Read more

Analysts find at least 10 Linux botnets actively exploiting Log4Shell flaw. Read more

The cybersecurity Hiroshima of the year – the Apache Log4j logging library exploit – has spun off 60 bigger mutations in less than a day, researchers said. Read more