by Paul Ducklin Google has issued an update for its widespread Chrome browser to fix three security holes. Unfortunately, one of those holes is what’s known as a zero-day: a bug that was already being exploited by cyerbcrooks before Google tracked it down and...
by John E Dunn After fixing a fat pile of critical security flaws as part of last week’s Patch Tuesday update, Adobe has come back with two more that need urgent attention. This is what’s called an out of band update, which means that a vulnerability is...
by Danny Bradbury Almost half of connected hospital devices are still exposed to the wormable BlueKeep Windows flaw nearly a year after it was announced, according to a report released this week. The report, called 2020 Vision: A Review of Major IT & Cyber...
by John E Dunn Firefox version 73 has only been out for a week but already Mozilla has had to update it to version 73.0.1 to fix a range of browser problems and crashes, including when running on Linux machines. The list of issues is surprisingly long for a point...
by Danny Bradbury A WordPress plugin with over 100,000 active installations had a hole which coould have allowed unauthorised attackers to wipe its users’ blogs clean, it emerged this week. ThemeGrill is a WordPress theme developer that publishes its own Demo...
by Paul Ducklin A trio of researchers from Singapore just published a paper detailing a number of security holes they discovered in Bluetooth chips from several different vendors. The good news is that they disclosed the holes responsibly back in 2019 and waited 90...
