CIS Releases 2019 Year in Review

The Center for Internet Security CIS has released its 2019 Year in Review. CIS is home to the Multi-State Information Sharing & Analysis Center MS-ISAC, a Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA partner focused on cyber threat prevention, protection, response, and recovery for U.S...

Adobe Releases Security Updates

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting Adobe Acrobat, Reader, and Lightroom. 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 administrato...

SAP Releases August 2020 Security Updates

SAP has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. This includes a cross-site scripting vulnerability CVE-2020-6284 in NetWeaver Knowledge Management The...

NSA Releases Guidance on Limiting Location Data Exposure

The National Security Agency NSA has released an information sheet with guidance on how to limit location data exposure for National Security System NSS / Department of Defense DoD system users, as well as the general public. NSA outlines mobile device geolocation services and provides...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Cisco products. A remote attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take obtain sensitive information. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the...

FBI Reports Increase in Online Shopping Scams

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center IC3 has released an alert on a recent increase in online shopping scams. The scams direct victims to fraudulent websites via ads on social media platforms and popular online search engines’ shopping pages. The Cybersecurity a...

Chinese Malicious Cyber Activity

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, and the Department of Defense DoD have identified a malware variant—referred as TAIDOOR—used by the Chinese government. In addition, U.S. Cyber Command has released the malware sample to the malwar...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. An unauthenticated, 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...

GNU GRUB2 Vulnerability

Free Software Foundation GNU Project's multiboot boot loader, GNU GRUB2, contains a vulnerability—CVE-2020-10713—that a local attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird. 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 t...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Magento

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Magento Commerce 2 formerly known as Magento Enterprise Edition and Magento Open Source 2 formerly known as Magento Community Edition. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. T...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 84.0.4147.105 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for ASA and FTD Software

Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Adaptive Security Appliance ASA Software and Firepower Threat Defense FTD Software Web Service. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agenc...

Citrix Releases Security Updates for Workspace App for Windows

Citrix has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Workspace app for Windows. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system if Windows Server Message Block SMB is enabled. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA recommen...

Adobe Releases Security Updates

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Adobe 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...

Microsoft Releases Security Update for Edge

Microsoft has released a security update to address a vulnerability in Edge Chromium-based. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to drop Dynamic Link Library DLL files and gain elevated privileges. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrato...

Mozilla Releases Security Update for Thunderbird

Mozilla has released a security update to address multiple vulnerabilities in Thunderbird. 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...

Malicious Activity Targeting COVID-19 Research, Vaccine Development

In response to malicious activity targeting COVID-19 research and vaccine development in the United States, United Kingdom UK, and Canada, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, UK’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC, Canada’s Communications Security Establishment CSE, and t...

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...

CISA Releases Emergency Directive on Critical Microsoft Vulnerability

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released Emergency Directive 20-03 addressing a critical vulnerability—CVE-2020-1350—affecting all versions of Windows Server with the Domain Name System DNS role enabled. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. An unauthenticated, 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...

Oracle Releases July 2020 Security Bulletin

Oracle has released its Critical Patch Update for July 2020 to address 433 vulnerabilities across 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...

Microsoft Addresses 'Wormable' RCE Vulnerability in Windows DNS Server

Microsoft has released a security update to address a remote code execution RCE vulnerability—CVE-2020-1350—in Windows DNS Server. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. This is considered a “wormable” vulnerability that affects all Windows Serve...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Adobe 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...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 84.0.4147.89 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review the...

Microsoft Releases July 2020 Security Updates

Microsoft has released updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in Microsoft software. 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...

Apache Releases Security Advisories for Apache Tomcat

The Apache Software Foundation has released security advisories to address multiple vulnerabilities in Apache Tomcat. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to cause a denial-of-service condition. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrato...

FTC Releases Article on Protecting Small Businesses from Cyber Threats

The Federal Trade Commission FTC has released an article on their Protecting Small Business playlist, which is a collection of videos with tips for small businesses to protect their networks from common cyber scams and cyberattacks. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA...

VMware Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

VMware has released security updates to address a vulnerability in VMware Fusion, Remote Console, and Horizon Client. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators t...

Juniper Networks Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Juniper Networks has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting 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...

VMware Releases Security Update for VeloCloud

VMware has released a security update to address a vulnerability in VeloCloud. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review VMware Security Advisory...

Citrix Releases Security Updates

Citrix has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Citrix ADC formerly known as NetScaler ADC, Citrix Gateway formerly known as NetScaler Gateway, and Citrix SD-WAN WANOP appliance. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system...

CISA Releases Securing Industrial Control Systems: A Unified Initiative

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA has released its five-year industrial control systems ICS strategy: Securing Industrial Control Systems: A Unified Initiative. The strategy—developed in collaboration with industry and government partners—lays out CISA's plan to improve,...

F5 Releases Security Advisory for BIG-IP TMUI RCE vulnerability, CVE-2020-5902

F5 has released a security advisory to address a remote code execution RCE vulnerability—CVE-2020-5902—in the BIG-IP Traffic Management User Interface TMUI. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CIS...

Samba Releases Security Updates

The Samba Team has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple versions of Samba. 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...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates for Firefox and Firefox ESR

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird. 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 t...

Cisco Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Cisco 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...

Microsoft Releases Security Updates for Windows 10, Windows Server

Microsoft has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Windows 10 and Windows Server. These vulnerabilities could allow a remote attacker to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review t...

Netgear Router Vulnerabilities

Multiple Netgear router models contain vulnerabilities that a remote attacker can exploit to take control of an affected device. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to update to the most recent firmware version and to replace end-of-life...

Palo Alto Releases Security Updates for PAN-OS

Palo Alto Networks has released security updates to address a vulnerability affecting the use of Security Assertion Markup Language in PAN-OS. An unauthenticated attacker with network access could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure...

Apache Releases Security Advisory for Apache Tomcat

The Apache Software Foundation has released a security advisory to address a vulnerability in Apache Tomcat. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to cause a denial-of-service condition. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review...

Cisco Releases Security Advisory for Telnet Vulnerability in IOS XE Software

Cisco has released a security advisory on a Telnet vulnerability—CVE-2020-10188—affecting Cisco IOS XE devices. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to take control of an affected system. The advisory contains workarounds as well as indicators of compromise. The Cybersecurity and...

VMware Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

VMware has released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi, Workstation, Fusion, and Cloud Foundation. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages...

Adobe Releases Security Updates for Magento

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Magento Commerce 1 and Magento Open Source 1. An attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrato...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 83.0.4103.116 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses a vulnerability that a remote attacker could exploit to cause a denial-of-service condition. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators to review...

ACSC Releases Advisory on Cyber Campaign using Copy-Paste Compromises

The Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC has released an advisory regarding an ongoing cyber campaign involving “copy-paste compromises” targeting Australian government and commercial networks. According to the advisory, a sophisticated malicious cyber actor is carrying out the campaign using...

Microsoft Releases Security Updates for Windows

Microsoft has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Windows 10 version 1903. An attacker could exploit this vulnerability to overwrite or modify a protected file and gain elevated privileges. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and...

CERT NZ Releases Advisory on Ransomware Campaign

The New Zealand Computer Emergency Response Team CERT NZ has released an advisory on a ransomware campaign leveraging remote access technologies. Malicious cyber actors are targeting organizations’ networks through remote access tools, such as Remote Desktop Protocol and virtual private networks,...

Drupal Releases Security Updates

Drupal has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting Drupal 7, 8.8, 8.9, and 9.0. A remote attacker could exploit one of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA encourages users and administrators ...

Cisco Releases Multiple Security Updates

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities affecting multiple products. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities, see the Cisco Security Advisories page. The...