Zeljka Zorz
Adobe splats bucketful of bugs in Acrobat and Reader
If you thought that Adobe skipped this month’s Patch Tuesday because there were no immediate vulnerabilities to fix, you were wrong: a week later the company dropped …
Tamper Protection prevents malware from disabling Microsoft Defender AV
Microsoft Defender, the anti-malware component of Microsoft Windows, has been equipped with a new protective feature called Tamper Protection, which should prevent malware …
“Smart city” governments should also be smart about security
While the definition of “smart city” is still under debate, one thing is indisputable: the technologies used to make smart cities a reality are currently acquired …
Analysis reveals the most common causes behind mis-issued SSL/TLS certificates
We should be able to trust public key certificates, but this is the real world: mistakes and “mistakes” happen. Researchers from Indiana University Bloomington …
Imperva explains how their recent security incident happened
In late August, Imperva suffered a security incident, resulting in the compromise of sensitive information of some of their Cloud WAF customers. On Thursday, Imperva CTO Kunal …
Microsoft NTLM vulnerabilities could lead to full domain compromise
Preempt researchers have discovered two vulnerabilities that may allow attackers to bypass a number of protections and mitigations against NTLM relay attacks and, in some …
2FA, HTTPS and private browsing still a mystery to most Americans
Most US adults know what phishing scams are and where they occur, what browser cookies do, and that advertising is the largest source of revenue for most social media …
Critical command execution vulnerability in iTerm2 patched, upgrade ASAP!
A critical vulnerability (CVE-2019-9535) in iTerm2, a macOS terminal emulator frequently used by developers and system administrators, could allow attackers to take control of …
Twitter 2FA phone numbers “inadvertently” used for advertising purposes
Twitter’s Support account published the following announcement on Tuesday: We recently found that some email addresses and phone numbers provided for account security …
October 2019 Patch Tuesday: A small batch of updates from Microsoft, none from Adobe
As predicted by Ivanti’s Chris Goettl, October 2019 Patch Tuesday came with a relatively small number of Microsoft updates and, curiously enough, with no security …
Winning the security fight: Tips for organizations and CISOs
For large organizations looking to build a robust cybersecurity strategy, failure to get the fundamentals in place practically guarantees a disaster. If you ask Matthew …
macOS Catalina: Security and privacy improvements
Apple has released macOS Catalina (v10.15), a new major release of its desktop operating system, which comes with many functional and security and privacy improvements. The …