Adobe’s Surprise Security Bulletin Dominated by Critical Patches

Adobe has dropped a mammoth out-of-band security update this week, addressing 92 vulnerabilities across 14 products. The majority of the disclosed bugs are critical-severity problems, and most allow arbitrary code execution ACE. Privilege escalation, denial-of-service and memory leaks/information...

Cisco BPA, WSA Bugs Allow Remote Cyberattacks

A set of high-severity privilege-escalation vulnerabilities affecting Business Process Automation BPA application and Cisco’s Web Security Appliance WSA and could allow authenticated, remote attackers to access sensitive data or take over a targeted system. The first two bugs CVE-2021-1574 and...

Critical Security Bug Can Knock Smart Meters Offline

Critical security vulnerabilities in Schneider Electric smart meters could allow an attacker a path to remote code execution RCE, or to reboot the meter causing a denial-of-service DoS condition on the device. Schneider Electric’s PowerLogic ION/PM smart meter product line, like other smart meter...