Silicon Republic – As the year begins, there are a few key areas that cybersecurity professionals should keep in mind. After the excesses of the holiday period, you are more than likely looking at the blank slate of a new year before you with a sense of optimism and hope for times ahead. Those in […]

Overview Microsoft released December 2018 security updates on Tuesday which fix 39 vulnerabilities ranging from simple spoofing attacks to remote code execution. Such security updates cover the following products: .NET Framework, Adobe Flash Player,Internet Explorer, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Exchange Server, Microsoft Graphics Component, Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office SharePoint, Microsoft Scripting Engine, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows […]

Security Risks and Challenges – Container Application Security Threat Container Application Security Threat Microservice Security From traditional monolithic applications to modern microservice applications, security has always been a hot issue. A monolithic application usually exposes fewer services and ports,narrowing the attack surface. In addition, security professionals know common points from which attacks are often launched. […]

Overview On December 11, 2018 (local time), Adobe released security updates which address multiple vulnerabilities in Acrobat and Reader.

IT WORLD CANADA – Criminals using artificial intelligence. More nation-state backed attacks. The Internet held hostage. Dangerous chatbots. President Trump’s cellphone will be hacked. And, of course, more malware. These are some of the predictions security vendors see coming in the next 12 months. It’s not a pretty picture, but then again cyber security never […]

SecurityIntelligence – Researchers spotted two Satan variants targeting organizations in the financial sector with Monero miners and ransomware. The first variant of the malware, which security solutions provider NSFOCUS spotted in early November, targets Linux and Windows systems and spreads by exploiting various application vulnerabilities. After establishing a foothold into a system, the virus simply […]

Top 10 countries: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at December 21, 2018. But the United States has the largest allocated IP addresses in the world and China is in the second place. So, report IP Reputation as a percentage of total […]

On December 7, 2018 security experts from NSFOCUS Fu Ying Labs delivered a speech at Botconf 2018, presenting WASM security threat analysis technologies with researchers from security firms, media personnel, and security practitioners from CERTs (Computer Emergency Response Teams) of various countries. Their striking insights were highly accepted and acknowledged by the international security industry. […]

1 Vulnerability Overview Recently, ThinkPHP posted a blog, announcing the release of an update that addresses a high-risk remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. This vulnerability stems from the framework’s insufficient checks on controller names, which, in case forced routing is not enabled, would allow arbitrary code execution or even access to the server. ThinkPHP is […]

Case AnalysisCase Analysis When you delete files from a computer or USB flash drive, just clicking the deletion button or doing a quick formatting does not completely remove files because you can easily recover them using data recovery software. Even after you clear the recycle bin, those deleted files can still be retrieved.