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Software vulnerabilities and the need for patching have become a fact of life in the modern world. Everyone loves the capabilities provided by computers and the Internet, but they’re not perfect. The simple fact is that software is written by humans and humans make mistakes, so the software has bugs in it. And if those […]
Stack Overflow, a question & answer based site for professional and programmers founded in 2008 reported a security breach. The company confirmed that hackers gained access to the production systems on May 11, it is unclear on how hackers gained access to the internal networks. Mary Ferguson, VP of Engineering at Stack Overflow, confirmed the […]
Firefox 66.0.1 Released with Fix for Critical Security Vulnerabilities that discovered via Trend Micro’s Zero Day Initiative. The vulnerability affects all the versions of Firefox below 66.0.1. An attacker could exploit these vulnerabilities to take complete control over the target system of the process. CVE-2019-9810: Incorrect alias information Incorrect alias information with IonMonkey JIT compiler […]
Most expected WordPress 4.7.3 is now available for update. This security update covers six security issues that exists with WordPress version 4.7.2. Security issues: Cross-site scripting (XSS) via media file metadata. Reported by Chris Andrè Dale, Yorick Koster, and Simon P. Briggs. Control characters can trick redirect URL validation. Reported by Daniel Chatfield. Unintended files can be […]
WordPress 4.7.1 and earlier forms are influenced by various vulnerabilities. A remote attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an infected site. WordPress 4.7.2 is currently accessible. This is a security update for every single past version and WordPress strongly urge you to upgrade your website quickly. WordPress versions 4.7.1 and […]
Technology giants Adobe, Microsoft Tuesday each released security updates and issued an upgrade for Flash Player and for Acrobat/Reader. Microsoft discharged only four updates to connect around 15 security gaps to Windows and related programming. From now and into the foreseeable future, a portion of the information focuses right now in the individual overhauls will be lumped […]
Short Bytes: The Canonical Livepatch service allows installation of security fixes for Linux kernel on Ubuntu without the need of rebooting the machine. The free live patching service can be enabled on up to 3 machines using a token issued by Canonical. This article covers the steps using which you can enable the Livepatch service […]