Security Updates & Patches

Securezoo Cybersecurity Threat Center blog posts of new security updates and patches.

Bluetooth BR/EDR supported devices vulnerable to cyber attacks

Security researchers have identified a security vulnerability related to encryption on Bluetooth BR/EDR connections. As a result, an unauthenticated attacker near the vulnerable device could exploit the issue and escalate privileges or steal information.

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Microsoft August 2019 Security Updates

Microsoft issued the August 2019 Security Updates on Tuesday that include 93 unique vulnerability fixes, 29 of those rated critical. In addition, two of the patches address two critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) “wormable” vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182) in Remote Desktop Services.

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SWAPGS: Newest Spectre vulnerability affects millions of systems

Security researchers have found a new side-channel attack and vulnerability that affects millions of newer Intel microprocessors. The new vulnerability CVE-2019-1125 dubbed SWAPGS is a variant of Spectre Variant 1 and bypasses previous mitigations against Spectre and Meltdown.

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