Posts for category: Vulnerability Research

Samba 445/ Esteem Audit

SambaCry According to sources a new vulnerability has been found for Linux machines running Samba 3.5.0 or newer CVE-2017-7494. Samba is used to provide SMB and CIFS services for Linux systems and ...

WannaCry Ransomware

WannaCry is the name of the very destructive Ransomware that has hit millions in over 100 countries. This worm utilizes vulnerabilities found in the SMB protocol that only affects Windows machines. ...

Vulnerabilities Weekly Summary Ending April 28

Hyundai Motor Releases Updates Addressing Blue Link Car Theft Vulnerability Car manufacture, Hyundai Motor, released mandatory security updates for two Blue Link mobile application vulnerabilities ...

Vulnerabilities Weekly Summary Ending April 21

Cisco Releases Security Updates for IOS and IOS XE Software EnergyWise DoS Vulnerabilities On April 19, Cisco released security updates addressing a high vulnerability for Cisco's IOS (versions 12.2 ...

Vulnerabilities Weekly Summary Ending April 14

Microsoft Releases Updates Addressing Microsoft Office Zero-Day Vulnerability On April 7, McAfee and FireEye reported that they have been researching a zero-day exploit found in Microsoft Office ...

Vulnerabilities Weekly Summary Ending April 7

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome Vulnerabilities Google has released security updates for Chrome on March 29, which addresses critical and high vulnerabilities  The first fix is a ...

Vulnerabilities Weekly Summary Ending March 24

Cisco Releases Security Updates for IOS Software On March 20, Cisco released security updates addressing vulnerabilities found in the Autonomic Networking Infrastructure (ANI) feature in Cisco IOS ...

Vulnerabilities Weekly Summary Ending March 17

Microsoft Releases Publicly Disclosed and Exploited Security Updates Microsoft released many security updates for March after postponing its updates for February due to a "last minute issue." These ...

Vulnerabilities Weekly Summary Ending March 10

WordPress 4.7.3 Addresses Six Vulnerabilities WordPress developers have announced a security release, WordPress 4.7.3, that addresses six vulnerabilities and thirty-nine maintenance fixes.  The six ...

Vulnerabilities Weekly Summary Ending March 3

Slack Developers Rapidly Patch Critical Vulnerability After Five Hours Frans Rosén, a researcher from Detectify, a web security testing company, found a critical vulnerability on Slack.  Slack is ...