patching

The persistent neglect of patching legacy systems is plaguing critical infrastructure and industries. The consequences of such neglect can be damaging to organizations, …

Curl v8.4.0 is out, and fixes – among other things – a high-severity SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2023-38545). Appropriate patches for some older …

UPDATE (October 11, 2023, 07:15 a.m. ET): Curl v8.4.0 is out and fixes both CVE-2023-38545, a SOCKS5 heap buffer overflow vulnerability and CVE-2023-38546, a cookie injection …

UPDATE (September 28, 2023, 03:15 a.m. ET): The CVE-2023-5129 ID has been either rejected or withdrawn by the CVE Numbering Authority (Google), since it’s a duplicate of …

49% of enterprises across Europe currently have no formal Bring-Your-Own-Device (BYOD) policy in place, meaning they have no visibility into or control over if and how …

A recently flagged phishing campaign aimed at delivering the Agent Tesla RAT to unsuspecting users takes advantage of old vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office that allow remote …

In the Android ecosystem, n-day vulnerabilities are almost as dangerous as zero-days, according to Google’s review of zero-days exploited in the wild in 2022. N-days …

Coalition’s recent Cyber Threat Index 2023 predicts the average Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVEs) rate will rise by 13% over 2022 to more than 1,900 per month in …

In this Help Net Security video, Mitja Kolsek, CEO at Acros Security, discusses micropatches, a solution to a huge security problem. With micropatches, there are no reboots or …

The answer to the question “Why does software continue to have so many vulnerabilities?” is complex, because the software itself is so complex. There’ve been many articles …

Although KEV catalog vulnerabilities are frequent targets of APT Groups, a large and exploitable attack surface remains due to software vendors’ lack of awareness and …

Unpatched vulnerabilities are responsible for 60% of all data breaches. The Department of Homeland Security has estimated that the proportion of breaches stemming from …