Vulnerability – Page 17 – Computer Security Articles

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 17:18:24 +0000

A roundup of security news from May 7 – May 13, including a new zero-day for Internet Explorer, a Netflix phishing scam, a worm found in Facebook’s Messenger, and more.

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QuickHeal Security

May 10, 2018 admin

CVE-2018-8174: Windows VBScript Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability – An advisory by Quick Heal Security Labs

Credit to Author: Prashant Kadam| Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 11:50:17 +0000

The recent zero-day vulnerability in Windows VBScript Engine (CVE-2018-8174), enables attackers to perform a remote code execution on targeted machines. Microsoft has released a security advisory CVE-2018-8174 on May 8, 2018, to address this issue. According to Microsoft, it impacts most of the Windows Operating Systems. Vulnerable versions Windows 7 x86 and x64 versions Windows…

QuickHeal Security

May 10, 2018 admin

CVE-2018-8174 : Windows VBScript Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability – An advisory by Quick Heal Security Labs

Credit to Author: Prashant Kadam| Date: Thu, 10 May 2018 11:50:17 +0000

QuickHeal Security

March 7, 2018 admin

Chinese, Russian hackers counting on Apache Struts vulnerabilities – a report by Quick Heal Security Labs

Credit to Author: Sameer Patil| Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2018 10:32:57 +0000

Apache Struts is an open-source CMS based on MVC framework for developing Java EE Web Applications. Apache Struts has been widely used by many Fortune 100 companies and government agencies over the years for developing web applications. But, websites built using a CMS constantly need to upgrade the CMS versions in their web application servers, because vulnerabilities…

Kaspersky Security

February 27, 2018 admin

Smart home apocalypse

Credit to Author: Alex Perekalin| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2018 11:30:00 +0000

At MWC 2018, Kaspersky Lab researchers show how easily a smart home can be hacked.

Kaspersky Security

February 22, 2018 admin

Transatlantic Cable podcast, episode 25

Credit to Author: pavelnikiforov| Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2018 14:24:00 +0000

On this episode of podcast, Jeff and David discuss a vulnerability in baby monitors, password re-use in Britain’s GenZ, and more.

QuickHeal Security

February 14, 2018 admin

A massive security flaw discovered in Skype. Fix not coming anytime soon.

Credit to Author: Shriram Munde| Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2018 09:10:30 +0000

Quick Heal Security Labs has recently learned about a serious vulnerability in Skype’s update installer – that’s the bad news. The worse news is, Microsoft is not going to patch the vulnerability anytime soon as this would require the updater to go through a ‘large code revision’. What is this…

QuickHeal Security

February 13, 2018 admin

Vulnerabilities found in Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter of Lenovo laptop chipsets

Credit to Author: Shriram Munde| Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2018 12:07:22 +0000

Vulnerabilities found in Broadcom Wi-Fi adapter of Lenovo laptop chipsets Lenovo recently released an advisory, warning customers about two critical Broadcom vulnerabilities which impact 25 models of its popular ThinkPad lineup. The Broadcom Wi-Fi chipsets used by Lenovo ThinkPad devices are affected by the CVE-2017-11120 & CVE-2017-11121 vulnerabilities. Both these issues…