Apple released macOS High Sierra 10.13.2 Supplemental Update that includes security improvements to Safari and WebKit to mitigate the effects of Spectre vulnerability (CVE-2017-5753 and CVE-2017-5715). Apple also provided a security update for Safari 11.0.2 for OS X El Capitan 10.11.6…
Software and hardware vendors have issued advisories and fixes for "Spectre" (speculative execution side-channel attack) and "Meltdown" vulnerabilities, related to recently disclosed CPU processor design flaws.
US-CERT issued a security update regarding the latest Intel processor design flaws. According to the vulnerability note, the CPU hardware implementations are vulnerable to side-channel attacks. The two vulnerabilities are referred…
An OpenEMR vulnerability could expose millions of medical records to attackers. The flaw has been patched with OpenEMR 5.0.0 Patch 6 a couple of weeks ago. Unpatched versions could allow an attacker…
On Tuesday, Microsoft issued patches to address 53 vulnerabilities, to include 20 critical fixes, as part of November security updates. Also noteworthy was four of the fixes addressed vulnerabilities with known public exploits (CVE-2017-11848, CVE-2017-11827, CVE-2017-11883 and CVE-2017-8700).
A team of security researchers from several universities have cracked the 1024-bit RSA encryption in theLibgcrypt cryptographic library used by GnuPG.