Two Microsoft Windows bugs under attack, one in Secure Boot with a manual fix

May’s Patch Tuesday brings some good and some bad news, and if you’re a glass-half-full type, you’d lead off with Microsoft’s relatively low number of security fixes: a mere 38. Your humble vulture, however, is a glass-half-empty-and-who-the-hell-drank-my-whiskey kind of bird, Read More …

Update now: Google emits emergency fix for zero-day Chrome vulnerability

Google on Friday released an emergency update for Chrome to address a zero-day security flaw. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-2033, can be exploited by a malicious webpage to run arbitrary code in the browser. Thus, surfing to a bad website Read More …

Apple Releases Security Updates for Multiple Products

Apple has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected device. CISA encourages users and administrators to review the following advisories and apply the necessary Read More …

Hands up who DIDN’T exploit this years-old flaw to ransack a US govt web server…

Multiple criminals, including at least potentially one nation-state group, broke into a US federal government agency’s Microsoft Internet Information Services web server by exploiting a critical three-year-old Telerik bug to achieve remote code execution. The snafu happened between November 2022 Read More …