Impact of Meltdown and Spectre on Akamai

Overview On Wednesday, January 3rd, researchers from Google Project Zero, Cyberus Technology, Graz University of Technology, and other organizations released details about a pair of related vulnerabilities, dubbed Meltdown and Spectre. These vulnerabilities appear to affect all modern processors...

CVE-2018-0754

The Windows Adobe Type Manager Font Driver Atmfd.dll in Windows 7 SP1, Windows 8.1 and RT 8.1, Windows Server 2008 SP2 and R2 SP1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703 and 1709, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server, version 1709 allows an information disclosure...

“Ready Player One” – Are you Ready to Protect Your Endpoints from the Bad Guys?

At times it can feel like a game as you watch the cyber-breach scorecards. Yahoo 3 billion users, Equifax 143 million consumers, Uber 57 million users, Imgur 1.7 million users are just a sample of the companies that have released new information on large breaches in the last few months...

Description of the security update for SQL Server 2016 SP1 CU7: January 3, 2018

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Description of the security update for SQL Server 2012 SP3 CU: January 16, 2018

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Guidance to mitigate speculative execution side-channel vulnerabilities

NOTE This advisory was revised on July 10, 2018. Some content has been removed for simplicity and because it is no longer relevant. You can view the archived content for ADV180002 in the FAQ section following the Affected Products table. Executive Summary Microsoft is aware of a new publicly...

Lynis 2.5.8 - Security Auditing Tool for Unix/Linux Systems

We are excited to announce this major release of auditing tool Lynis. Several big changes have been made to core functions of Lynis. These changes are the next of simplification improvements we made. There is a risk of breaking your existing configuration. Lynis is an open source security auditin...

CVE-2017-13867

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11.2 is affected. macOS before 10.13.2 is affected. tvOS before 11.2 is affected. watchOS before 4.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Kernel" component. It allows attackers to execute arbitrary code in a privileged context or cause...

CVE-2017-13868

An issue was discovered in certain Apple products. iOS before 11.2 is affected. macOS before 10.13.2 is affected. tvOS before 11.2 is affected. watchOS before 4.2 is affected. The issue involves the "Kernel" component. It allows attackers to bypass intended memory-read restrictions via a crafted...

CVE-2017-11913

Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 and R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, and Windows Server 2016 allows an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the current user, due to how...

DEBIAN-CVE-2017-17044

An issue was discovered in Xen through 4.9.x allowing HVM guest OS users to cause a denial of service infinite loop and host OS hang by leveraging the mishandling of Populate on Demand PoD errors...

Memory corruption

Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows 7 SP1, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1, Windows 8.1 and Windows RT 8.1, Windows Server 2012 and R2, and Microsoft Edge and Internet Explorer in Windows 10 Gold, 1511, 1607, 1703, 1709, Windows Server 2016 and Windows Server, version 1709 allows an attacker to gai...

Free, Open-Source Remote Administration Tool for Windows: QuasarRAT

Quasar is a fast and light-weight remote administration tool coded in C. Providing high stability and an easy-to-use user interface, Quasar is the perfect remote administration solution for you. Features TCP network stream IPv4 & IPv6 support Fast network serialization NetSerializer Compressed...

The vulnerability of the SQLite component in Mac OS X and iOS operating systems allows a hacker to cause a service failure.

The vulnerability of the SQLite component in Mac OS X and iOS operating systems arises from the execution of operations beyond the buffer boundaries in memory. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow a malicious actor to cause service failures remotely...

[SECURITY] Fedora 27 Update: qemu-2.10.1-1.fc27

QEMU is a generic and open source processor emulator which achieves a good emulation speed by using dynamic translation. QEMU has two operating modes: Full system emulation. In this mode, QEMU emulates a full system for example a PC, including a processor and various peripherials. It can be used ...

BlueBorne vulnerabilities and security flaws in Bluetooth stacks

A collection of Bluetooth implementation vulnerabilities known as "BlueBorne" has been released. These vulnerabilities collectively affect Windows, iOS, and Linux-kernel-based operating systems including Android and Tizen, and may in the worst case allow an unauthenticated attacker to perform...

CVE-2017-5108

Type confusion in PDFium in Google Chrome prior to 60.0.3112.78 for Mac, Windows, Linux, and Android allowed a remote attacker to potentially maliciously modify objects via a crafted PDF file...

CVE-2017-5070

Type confusion in V8 in Google Chrome prior to 59.0.3071.86 for Linux, Windows, and Mac, and 59.0.3071.92 for Android, allowed a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code inside a sandbox via a crafted HTML page...

Network Time Protocol ntpd Reference Clock Impersonation Vulnerability(CVE-2016-1551)

SUMMARY ntpd relies on the underlying operating system to protect it from requests that impersonate reference clocks. Because reference clocks are treated like other peers and stored in the same structure, any packet with a source ip address of a reference clock 127.127.1.1 for example that reach...

[SECURITY] Fedora 26 Update: check-mk-1.2.8p26-1.fc26

check-mk is a general purpose Nagios-plugin for retrieving data. It adopts a new approach for collecting data from operating systems and network compone nts. It obsoletes NRPE, checkbyssh, NSClient, and checksnmp and it has many benefits, the most important are a significant reduction of CPU usag...