phpMyAdmin Releases Critical Software Update — Patch Your Sites Now!

Developers of phpMyAdmin, one of the most popular and widely used MySQL database management systems, today released an updated version 4.8.4 of its software to patch several important vulnerabilities that could eventually allow remote attackers to take control of the affected web servers. The...

Facebook Hacked — 10 Important Updates You Need To Know About

If you also found yourself logged out of Facebook on Friday, you are not alone. Facebook forced more than 90 million users to log out and back into their accounts in response to a massive data breach. On Friday afternoon, the social media giant disclosed that some unknown hackers managed to explo...

Foreshadow Attacks — 3 New Intel CPU Side-Channel Flaws Discovered

2018 has been quite a tough year for Intel. While the chip-maker giant is still dealing with Meltdown and Spectre processor vulnerabilities, yet another major speculative execution flaw has been revealed in Intel's Core and Xeon lines of processors that may leave users vulnerable to cyber-attacks...

Microsoft Releases Patch Updates for 53 Vulnerabilities In Its Software

It's time to gear up your systems and software for the latest July 2018 Microsoft security patch updates. Microsoft today released security patch updates for 53 vulnerabilities, affecting Windows, Internet Explorer IE, Edge, ChakraCore, .NET Framework, ASP.NET, PowerShell, Visual Studio, and...

Debian DLA-268-1 : virtualbox-ose security update (Venom)

Three vulnerabilities have been fixed in the Debian squeeze-lts version of VirtualBox package name: virtualbox-ose, a x86 virtualisation solution. CVE-2015-0377 Avoid VirtualBox allowing local users to affect availability via unknown vectors related to Core, which might result in denial of servic...

Vulnerabilities in Java Web Start allow to determine the location of the Java Web Start cache

Java Web Start in Sun JDK and JRE 6 Update 2 and earlier, JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 12 and earlier, and SDK and JRE 1.4.215 and earlier does not properly enforce access restrictions for untrusted applications, which allows user-assisted remote attackers to obtain sensitive information the Java Web...