Google Patches 81 Android Vulnerabilities With September 2017 Updates

A total of 81 security vulnerabilities have been addressed in this month’s set of security patches for the Android platform. 13 of the flaws were rated Critical severity. The security bulletin has two security patch levels, each focused on addressing vulnerabilities in specific components. The 2017-09-01 security patch level fixes a total of 30 vulnerabilities, 10 of…

Many Joomla Sites Hacked via Recently Patched Flaws

Less than 24 hours after Joomla released patches for a couple of critical account creation vulnerabilities, researchers noticed that malicious actors had already started exploiting the flaws in the wild. Joomla announced on October 25 the availability of version 3.6.4 to fix two serious vulnerabilities: CVE-2016-8870, which allows attackers to create user accounts even if…