CISA-FBI Joint Announcement on PRC Targeting of COVID-19 Research Organizations

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA and the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI have jointly released a Public Service Announcement on the People’s Republic of China’s targeting of COVID-19 research organizations. CISA and FBI encourage COVID-19 research organizations to...

North Korean Malicious Cyber Activity

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the Department of Defense DoD have identified three malware variants—COPPERHEDGE, TAINTEDSCRIBE, and PEBBLEDASH—used by the North Korean government. In addition, U.S. Cyber Command has released...

Apple Releases Security Updates

Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the Apple...

Apple Releases Multiple Security Updates

Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the App...

NIST Publishes Multifactor Authentication Practice Guide

The National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence NCCoE has published NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide: Multifactor Authentication for E-Commerce. The guide provides e-commerce organizations multifactor authentication MFA protection methods they...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco has released several updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. NCCIC encourages users and administrators to review the following Cisco Security Advisories and apply the...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox

Mozilla has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Firefox and Firefox ESR. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service condition. NCCIC/US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Mozilla Security Advisory for Firefox 59.0.2 and Firefo...

ICSJWG Call for Abstracts

The Industrial Control Systems Joint Working Group ICSJWG—a collaborative and coordinating body operating under the Critical Infrastructure Partnership Advisory Council CIPAC framework—has issued a call for abstracts to be presented at the ICSJWG Spring Meeting in Albuquerque, New Mexico, April...

Transport Layer Security (TLS) Vulnerability

CERT Coordination Center CERT/CC has released information on a Transport Layer Security TLS vulnerability. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow an attacker to access sensitive information. The TLS vulnerability is also known as Return of Bleichenbacher's Oracle Threat ROBOT. ROBOT allow...

Apple Releases Security Updates

Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Apple security pages for the following products and apply...

Adobe Releases Security Updates

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in DNG Software Development Kit SDK, Brackets, Creative Cloud Desktop Application, and Cold Fusion. Exploitation of some of these vulnerabilities may allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system. Users and...

ISC Releases Security Updates for DHCP Server

Internet Systems Consortium ISC has released security updates to address a vulnerability in versions of ISC Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol DHCP server. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to cause a denial-of-service condition. Updated versions of ISC DHCP...

Microsoft Releases Update for EMET

US-CERT is aware of a vulnerability in Microsoft Enhanced Mitigation Experience Toolkit EMET versions prior to 5.5. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a remote attacker to bypass or disable EMET to take control of an affected system. US-CERT recommends users and administrators visit the...

IRS Releases Second Tax Security Tip

The Internal Revenue Service IRS has released the second in a series of tips intended to increase public awareness of how to protect personal and financial data online and at home. A new tip will be available each Monday through the start of the tax season in January. US-CERT and IRS recommend...

Google Releases Security Update for Chrome

Google has released Chrome 41.0.2272.118 for Windows, Mac, and Linux to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of one of these vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome blog...

FBI Releases "Ransomware on the Rise"

The FBI has released an article addressing ransomware campaigns that use intimidating messages claiming to be from the FBI or other government agencies. Scam operators use ransomware – a type of malicious software – to infect a computer and restrict access to it until a ransom is paid to unlock i...

Affordable Care Act Phishing Campaign

US-CERT is aware of a phishing campaign purporting to come from a U.S. Federal Government Agency. The phishing emails reference the Affordable Care Act in the subject and claim to direct users to health coverage information, but instead direct them to sites which attempt to elicit private...

"Misfortune Cookie" Broadband Router Vulnerability

Broadband routers employing the Allegro RomPager firmware prior to versions 4.34 contain a vulnerability in HTTP cookie processing code. Exploitation of this vulnerability could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected device. Users and administrators are encouraged to review...

Ebola Phishing Scams and Malware Campaigns

US-CERT reminds users to protect against email scams and cyber campaigns using the Ebola virus disease EVD as a theme. Phishing emails may contain links that direct users to websites which collect personal information such as login credentials, or contain malicious attachments that can infect a...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome and Chrome OS

Google has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Chrome and Chrome OS, one of which could potentially allow an attacker to take control of the affected system. Updates available include: Chrome 38.0.2125.104 for Windows, Mac and Linux Chrome OS 38.0.2125.108 for all...

Apple Releases Security Update for Safari

Apple has released security updates for Safari to address vulnerabilities which could allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause an unexpected application termination. Updates include Safari 6.1.6 and Safari 7.0.6 for OS X Lion v10.7.5, OS X Lion Server v10.7.5, OS X Mountain Lion v10.8...

Oracle Releases July 2014 Security Advisory

Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for July 2014 to address 113 vulnerabilities across multiple products. This update contains the following security fixes: 5 for Oracle Database Server 29 for Oracle Fusion Middleware 7 for Oracle Hyperion 1 for Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 5...

OpenSSL Releases Security Advisory

OpenSSL has released updates patching 6 vulnerabilities, which may allow an attacker to decrypt or modify traffic between a vulnerable client and server, cause a denial of service condition, or remotely execute arbitrary code. The following updates are available: OpenSSL 0.9.8 SSL/TLS users shoul...

Microsoft Internet Explorer Use-After-Free Vulnerability Guidance

US-CERT is aware of active exploitation of a use-after-free vulnerability in Microsoft Internet Explorer. This vulnerability affects IE versions 6 through 11 and could allow unauthorized remote code execution. US-CERT recommends that users and administrators review Microsoft Security Advisory...

Mozilla Releases Updates for Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey

The Mozilla Foundation has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Firefox, Thunderbird, and Seamonkey. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to obtain sensitive information, cause a denial-of-service condition, execute arbitrary code, or operate wit...

Google Releases Google Chrome Updates

Google has released Google Chrome 32.0.1700.95 for all Chrome OS devices except Chromebook Pixel, Google Chrome 32.0.1700.76 for Windows and Chrome Frame, and Google Chrome 32.0.1700.77 for Mac and Linux to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to...

Security Update Available for Adobe Shockwave Player

Adobe has released a security update for Adobe Shockwave Player 12.0.3.133 and earlier versions for Windows and Macintosh to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities, if exploited, could allow an attacker to run malicious code on an affected system. US-CERT recommends that users an...

Security Updates Available for Adobe Flash Player

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

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for February Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its February release will contain eleven bulletins. These bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and important, and will be for Microsoft Windows, Internet Explorer, Server Software, and .NET Framework. The...

CERT Releases UPnP Security Advisory

Multiple vulnerabilities have been announced in libupnp, the open source portable SDK for UPnP devices. Libupnp is employed by hundreds of vendors for UPnP-enabled devices. Information is also available in CERT Vulnerability Note VU922681. US-CERT recommends that affected UPnP device vendors and...

Google Releases Google Chrome 23.0.1271.95

Google has released Google Chrome 23.0.1271.95 for Windows, Mac, and ChromeFrame to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities could result in a denial of service or allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome...

Microsoft Releases a Security Advisory for Microsoft Digital Certificates

Microsoft has released security advisory 2728973 to replace a number of certificates that did not meet Microsoft's high standard of Public-Key Infrastructure PKI management. This update places the intermediate certificate authority CA certificates in the Untrusted Certificate Store and replaces...

Microsoft Releases March Security Bulletin

Microsoft has released updates to address vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows, Visual Studio, and Express Design as part of the Microsoft Security Bulletin Summary for March 2012. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code, cause a denial-of-service condition, or opera...

Adobe Releases Security Bulletin for Adobe Shockwave Player

Adobe has released a security update for Adobe Shockwave Player to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. These vulnerabilities affect Shockwave Player 11.6.1.629 and earlier versions for the Windows and Macintosh...

Cisco Releases Two Security Advisories

Cisco has released two security advisories to address vulnerabilities affecting CiscoWorks Common Services and Cisco Show and Share. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or bypass security restrictions. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review Cisco...

Google Releases Chrome 13.0.782.107

Google has released Chrome 13.0.782.107 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame to address multiple vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to perform a cross-site scripting attack, or to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Goog...

Oracle Releases Critical Patch Update for June 2011

Oracle released its June Critical Patch Update CPU containing 17 security fixes for the following products: JDK and JRE 6 Update 25 and earlier for Windows, Solaris, and Linux JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 29 and earlier for Windows, Solaris, and Linux SDK and JRE 1.4.231 and earlier for Windows, Solari...

WebGL Security Risks

US-CERT is aware of reports indicating that WebGL contains multiple significant security issues. The impact of these issues includes denial of service, and cross-domain attacks. WebGL is a new web standard that is enabled by default in Firefox 4 and Google Chrome and is included in Safari. US-CER...

Apple Releases iOS 4.3.3

Apple released iOS 4.3.3 for the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad to address location tracking history capabilities. This update specifically addresses two bugs in iOS that resulted in the devices storing historical location data for too long. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review App...

RealNetworks, Inc. Releases Update for Helix Server and Helix Mobile Server

RealNetworks, Inc. has released a security update for multiple vulnerabilities affecting Helix Server and Helix Mobile Server. The vulnerabilities affect versions 12.x, 13.x, and 14.x of Helix Server and Helix Mobile Server installed on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, Sun Solaris 10, Windows 2003, an...

Google Releases Chrome 10.0.648.133

Google has released Chrome 10.0.648.133 for Windows, Mac, Linux, and Chrome Frame. This update addresses a vulnerability that may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome Releases blog entry and apply any necessary update...

Google Releases Chrome 9.0.597.107

Google has released Chrome 9.0.597.107 for all platforms to address multiple vulnerabilities. Exploitation of these vulnerabilities may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review the Google Chrome...

RealNetworks, Inc. Releases Security Updates for RealPlayer

RealNetworks, Inc. has released security updates to address a vulnerability affecting Windows RealPlayer 14.0.1 and earlier versions and RealPlayer Enterprise 2.1.4 and earlier versions. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code in the context of the...

Adobe Prenotification Security Advisory for Adobe Reader and Acrobat

Adobe had issued a prenotification advisory indicating that it plans to release updates for Adobe Reader and Acrobat to address multiple vulnerabilities. The advisory indicates that updates for Windows and Macintosh will be available on February 8, 2011. An update for UNIX will be available the...

Microsoft Releases Advance Notification for February Security Bulletin

Microsoft has issued a Security Bulletin Advance Notification indicating that its February release will contain 12 bulletins. Three of these bulletins will have the severity rating of critical and will be for Microsoft Windows and Internet Explorer. The remaining bulletins will have a severity...

VMware Releases Security Patch for ESX

VMware has released a security patch for ESX to address a vulnerability. Exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a local user to gain additional privileges on the affected system. US-CERT encourages users and administrators to review VMware knowledgebase article 1029397 and apply any necessa...

RIM Releases Security Advisory for BlackBerry Enterprise Server

RIM has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in the PDF distiller of the BlackBerry attachment service for the BlackBerry Enterprise Server. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to execute arbitrary code or cause a denial-of-service condition. US-CERT encourages users and...

Oracle Releases Critical Patch for October 2010

Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for October 2010 to address 85 vulnerabilities across multiple products. This update contains the following security fixes: 7 for Oracle Database Server 8 for Oracle Fusion Middleware 1 for Oracle Enterprise Manager Grid Control 6 for Oracle E-Busines...

Apple Releases Security Update 2010-006

Apple has released security update 2010-006 for Mac OS X and Mac OS X Server to address a vulnerability in the AFP package. This vulnerability may allow an attacker to bypass password validation and obtain sensitive information. The article indicates that this vulnerability does not affect system...

Microsoft Windows .LNK Vulnerability

US-CERT is aware of a vulnerability affecting Microsoft Windows. This vulnerability is due to the failure of Microsoft Windows to properly obtain icons for .LNK files. Microsoft uses .LNK files, commonly referred to as "shortcuts," as references to files or applications. By convincing a user to...