A Florida city paid $600,000 in ransom to hackers who seized its computer system, the latest in a large number of attacks globally aimed at wringing money from governments and businesses. The Riviera Beach City Council voted with unanimity this week to pay the hackers’ demands, believing the Palm Beach Continue Reading
Cisco has issued another set of repairs for many of its products, including its SD-WAN and DNA Center solutions, its Email Security Appliance, Security Manager, SOHO routers/firewalls, and more. CVE-2019-1625 could let a genuine, local assailant to raise lower-level rights to the root user on a device running a susceptible version of the Continue Reading
On Tuesday, Oracle announced it had fixed a major vulnerability for a remote code execution that could affect specific versions of the WebLogic Server. The virus in Oracle system circumvents a previously fixed vulnerability with researchers saying it is aggressively used in attacks. The company credits a member of Knownsec’s Continue Reading
A security researcher working for Netflix has revealed that potentially critical flaws have hit the Linux kernel that can be exploited by a remote, unverified attacker to mount denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. The vulnerabilities are related to how the kernel deals with TCP Selective Acknowledgement (SACK) packets with a low minimum Continue Reading
The victims of the latest variants of the GandCrab ransomware have reason to be happy as a free decryption tool is now on hand for them. The tool, released on the NoMoreRansom website, provides victims with the leeway to regain access to files that have been encoded with versions 5 to 5.2 Continue Reading
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