VMblog.com – It’s no surprise that 2018 continued to bring an increase in fraud attacks and data security breaches, including those of Facebook and now Marriott. In the past two years, the average number of overall daily searches for keywords such as “personal information disclosure” and “hacker” have been fluctuating at a very high level. […]

Overview Recently, ThinkPHP posted a blog, announcing the release of an important update that addresses a critical vulnerability. This security update fixes a getShell vulnerability caused by the framework’s insufficient checks on controller names in case forced routing is not enabled. The vulnerability, which affects ThinkPHP 5.0 and 5.1, is fixed in the latest version.

Linkedin Eric Vanderburg Information security is often described using the CIA Triad. The CIA stands for Confidentiality, Integrity, and Availability and these are the three elements of data that information security tries to protect. If we look at the CIA triad from the attacker’s viewpoint, they would seek to compromise confidentiality by stealing data, integrity by manipulating data […]

Security Risks and Challenges—Security Threat Analysis Security Threat Analysis When we talk about security risks to containers, we mean security threats to hosts, to containers, and to the carried applications.

Overview On December 5, 2018, local time, Adobe released a security bulletin to document the remediation of two vulnerabilities, namely a critical 0-day vulnerability (CVE-2018-15982) in Adobe Flash Player and an important vulnerability (CVE-2018-15983) in Adobe Flash Player installer.

Dark Reading – Windows, Linux systems vulnerable to self-propagating ‘Lucky’ malware, security researchers say. A new version of ransomware that first surfaced about two years ago is garnering attention for its ability to spread via as many as ten different vulnerabilities in Windows and Linux server platforms.

The fifth annual Flare-on Challenge held by FireEye recently took place.129 out of 4925 players, of which 10 were Chinese players, reportedly finished the challenge this year. NSFOCUS’s KoAll team made a huge splash by topping the global medal tally with four medals.

Risk Overview Recently, over 20,000 PCs in China have fallen victim to WeChat Pay ransomware. Files on the affected devices are encrypted by the ransomware. To regain access to the files, users are asked to scan a WeChat QR code that appears in a pop-up window and pay 110 yuan (about $16) in ransom. So […]

Case AnalysisCase Analysis Many people use the same user names and passwords to access different websites. This makes it possible for hackers to use the password for access to a website that has been hacked to log in to other websites. Each password for each website seems unlikely. To solve this issue, you can follow […]

1 Background In early November 2018, NSFOCUS discovered that some of its financial customers had been infected with a worm virus FT.exe that could affect both Linux and Windows platforms. Like the ransomware Satan, the virus spreads itself by exploiting multiple application vulnerabilities. However, this virus, after breaking into the system, does not do anything […]