Vulnerabilities

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: CSO

Vulnerability scanners are automated tools that allow organizations to check if their networks, systems and applications have security weaknesses that could expose them to attacks. Vulnerability scanning is a common practice across enterprise networks and is often mandated by industry standards and government regulations to improve the organization’s security posture. There are many tools and…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Google included a total of 32 security fixes in Chrome 81, which was finally promoted to the stable channel, after the current COVID-19 pandemic forced the Internet giant to delay stable releases and roll back some of the recently introduced protections in Chrome. Twenty-three of the patches fix vulnerabilities reported by external security researchers, including…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Headquartered in San Jose, California, Zoom provides users with a platform that combines video and audio conferencing, online meetings, chat, screen sharing, and more. With the current COVID-19 pandemic forcing many to work from home and start using services such as Zoom for collaboration purposes, investigative journalists and web veterans decided to have a look…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

Less than 50 percent of organizations can patch vulnerable systems swiftly enough to protect against critical threats and zero-day attacks, and 81 percent have suffered at least one data breach in the last two years, according to Automox. The research surveyed 560 IT operations and security professionals at enterprises with between 500 and 25,000 employees,…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

Attackers are exploiting two new zero-days in the Windows Adobe Type Manager Library to achieve remote code execution on targeted Windows systems, Microsoft warns. The attacks are limited and targeted, the company noted, and provided workarounds to help reduce customer risk until a fix is developed and released. More about the new Windows zero-days According…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Help Net Security

Many enterprises and sectors are unaware of the 5G security vulnerabilities that exist today. Choice IoT says it’s critical for businesses to have a plan for discovering and overcoming them at the outset of a 5G/IoT platform rollout to avoid future cybersecurity disasters. There is a big difference between the promise of 5G low latency,…