Tag: unpatched

Web-based DNA sequencers getting compromised through old, unpatched flaw

Unknown attackers are trying to exploit a vulnerability in dnaLIMS, a Web based bioinformatics laboratory information management system, to implant a bind shell into the underlying web server. Researcher Ankit Anubhav first noticed the attacks on June 12 and they are apparently still going on. About dnaLIMS DnaLIMS is developed by Colorado-based dnaTools. It provides […]

Unpatched Vulnerabilities Caused Breaches in 27% of Orgs, Finds Study

In May 2019, Verizon Enterprise released the 12th edition of its Data Breach Investigations Report (DBIR). Researchers analyzed a total of 41,686 security incidents, of which there were 2,013 data breaches, for the publication. More than half (52 percent) of those reported breaches involved some form of hacking. The report listed the most prominent hacking […]

Unpatched Bug Let Attackers Bypass Windows Lock Screen On RDP Sessions

A security researcher today revealed details of a newly unpatched vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP). Tracked as CVE-2019-9510, the reported vulnerability could allow client-side attackers to bypass the lock screen on remote desktop (RD) sessions. Discovered by Joe Tammariello of Carnegie Mellon University Software Engineering Institute (SEI), the flaw exists The Hacker […]

Google expert disclosed details of an unpatched flaw in SymCrypt library

Tavis Ormandy, a white hat hacker Google Project Zero announced to have found a zero-day flaw in the SymCrypt cryptographic library of Microsoft’s operating system. The recently released Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2019 failed to address a flaw in SymCrypt, a core cryptographic function library currently used by Windows. The flaw could be […]
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