UK CPNI Releases Spear Phishing Paper

The United Kingdom's Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure CPNI has recently released a paper titled "Spear Phishing - Understanding the Threat;" this document provides guidance on how spear phishing attacks work, whether you are likely to be a target, and the steps organizations c...

Mozilla Releases Multiple Updates

The Mozilla Foundation has released updates for the following products to address multiple vulnerabilities. Firefox 26 Firefox ESR 24.2 Thunderbird 24.2 SeaMonkey 2.23 These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to bypass intended security restrictions, conduct a spoofing attack, execute...

Adobe Releases Security Update for Adobe Shockwave Player

Adobe has released a security update for Adobe Shockwave Player 12.0.6.147 and earlier versions on the Windows and Macintosh operating systems to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code on the affected system. US-CERT recommends...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Adobe Flash Player

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player to address multiple vulnerabilities. Adobe is aware of reports that an exploit designed to trick a user into opening a Microsoft Word document with malicious Flash .swf content exists. These vulnerabilities could cause a crash and...

Microsoft Releases December 2013 Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Lync, Internet Explorer, Microsoft Exchange, Microsoft SharePoint, and Microsoft Developer Tools as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for December 2013. These vulnerabilities...

Google Releases Google Chrome 31.0.1650.63

Google has released Google Chrome 31.0.1650.63 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to hijack a web session, spoof the address bar or cause a denial of service condition. US-CERT encourages users and...

Microsoft Releases Security Advisory for Microsoft Windows Kernel

Microsoft has released Security Advisory 2914486 to address a vulnerability in a kernel component of Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. This vulnerability could allow an attacker to obtain elevation of privilege and then execute arbitrary code. Microsoft is aware of limited, targeted attacks tha...

Mozilla Releases Multiple Updates

The Mozilla Foundation has released updates for the following products to address multiple vulnerabilities. Firefox 25.0.1 Firefox ESR 24.1.1 Firefox ESR 17.0.11 Seamonkey 2.22.1 These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to bypass intended security restrictions or cause a...

BlackBerry Releases Security Advisory

BlackBerry has released a security advisory to address potential vulnerabilities that affect a remote file access feature within BlackBerry Link for Blackberry 10 Operating Systems. These vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to obtain elevation of privilege or execute arbitrary code remotely...

Google Releases Google Chrome 31.0.1650.48

Google has released Google Chrome 31.0.1650.48 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial of service condition or bypass intended security restrictions. US-CERT encourages users and...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Adobe Flash Player

Adobe has released security updates for Adobe Flash Player to address multiple vulnerabilities. These updates address vulnerabilities that could cause a crash and potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Adobe has released updates to the following products: Adobe Flas...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for November Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its November 2013 release will contain eight bulletins. These bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and important and will be for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Office. These bulletins...

Security Advisory for Microsoft Graphics Component

Microsoft has released a Security Advisory regarding a vulnerability in the Microsoft Graphics component that affects Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and Microsoft Lync. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by convincing a user to preview or open a specially crafted email message, op...

Cisco Releases Security Advisory

Cisco has released a security advisory to address multiple vulnerabilities in Cisco IOS XE Software for 1000 Series Aggregation Services Routers ASR. These vulnerabilities, which are independent of each other, could allow an unauthenticated remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition...

WordPress Releases Update for WordPress 3.7

WordPress has released WordPress 3.7 “Basie” for all previous versions. This version has been devised to automatically update with the latest maintenance and security releases, making the process more reliable and secure, with dozens of new checks and safeguards. WordPress 3.7 also updates the...

Apple Releases Apple Remote Desktop 3.7

Apple has released Apple Remote Desktop 3.7 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to execute arbitrary code or obtain sensitive information. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple Support Article HT5998 and follow best practi...

Apple Releases OS X Mavericks v10.9

Apple has released OS X Mavericks v10.9 to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to bypass security restrictions, cause a denial-of-service condition, or execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple Support...

Cisco Releases Security Advisories

Cisco has released three security advisories to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to successfully execute arbitrary code, authentication bypass or cause a denial-of-service DoS condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the followi...

Google Releases Google Chrome 30.0.1599.101

Google has released Google Chrome 30.0.1599.101 for Windows, Mac, Linux and Chrome Frame operating systems to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition or trigger multiple conflicting uses of the same object. US-CE...

Apple Releases Security Update for Java on OS X

Apple has released a security update for Java on Mac OS X v10.6.8, Mac OS X Server v10.6.8, OS X Lion v10.7 or later, OS X Lion Server v10.7 or later, and OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 or later to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code wi...