May Patch Tuesday Fixes Two Bugs Under Active Attack
In total, Microsoft’s May Patch Tuesday roundup included 68 security patches, with 21 listed as critical, 45 rated important and two listed low in severity. Read More HERE…
Cloud Security
Sierra Wireless Patches Critical Vulns in Range of Wireless Routers
The flaws would leave the enterprise devices helpless to a range of remote threats, including the charms of the Reaper IoT botnet. Read More HERE…
Adobe Patches Critical Bugs In Flash Player, Creative Cloud
Adobe fixed critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Flash Player and Creative Cloud as part of its regularly scheduled May Security Bulletin, on Tuesday. Read More HERE…
FBI: Cyber-Fraud Losses Rise to Reach $1.4B
Tech-support scams took off during the year, while whaling/business email compromise was the main threat, accounting for losses of more than $675 million. Read More HERE…
Pr0nbot is Back – and Evading Twitter Censors
A rapidly swelling botnet of Twitter accounts advertising “adult dating”-themed scam websites has at least 80,000 nodes to date. Read More HERE…
Twitter Urges Users to Change Passwords Due to Glitch
A glitch caused Twitter passwords to be stored in plain text on an internal log. Read More HERE…
Kitty Cryptomining Malware Cashes in on Drupalgeddon 2.0
Bad actors are leveraging the critical Drupal vulnerability to install cryptomining malware on servers and browsers, Read More HERE…