Data breaches in 2018 compromised personal information of millions of people around the world, most notably from large corporations such as Facebook, Marriott, T-Mobile and Quora. Seemingly every week there is a new breach reported, and consumers have taken notice. In the past year, the average number of overall...
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Oracle January 2019 Critical Patch Update Security Advisory for All Product Families
Overview On January 15, 2019, local time, Oracle released its own security advisory and third-party security advisories for its January 2019 Critical Patch Update (CPU) which fix 284 vulnerabilities of varying severity levels across the product families. For details about affected products and available patches, see the appendix. (mais…)
ThinkPHP 5.0-5.0.23, 5.1.0-5.1.31, and 5.2.* Remote Code Execution Vulnerability Handling Guide
1 Vulnerability Overview Recently, ThinkPHP 5.0-5.0.23 was found to have a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability. The NSFOCUS Falcon Team carried out tests and found that ThinkPHP 5.0-5.0.23, 5.1.0-5.1.31, and 5.2.* were also prone to this vulnerability, which could be triggered in both Linux and Windows systems. (mais…)
Researchers analyze DDoS attacks as coordinated gang activities
Help Net Security - In a new report, NSFOCUS introduced the IP Chain-Gang concept, in which each chain-gang is controlled by a single threat actor or a group of related threat actors and exhibit similar behavior among the various attacks conducted by the same gang. Researchers analyzed attack types, volume,...
Are Smart Cities Secure?
RFID Journal - Planning and oversight have the most significant impact when securing a smart city utilizing Internet of Things and RFID technologies. Recently, I participated in several tenders for smart-city projects around the world. I also partook in CEO roundtable discussions at Telecom Exchange LA, including one about what...
IP Reputation Report-01182019
Top 10 countries in attack counts: The above diagram shows the top 10 regions with the most malicious IP addresses from the NSFOCUS IP Reputation databases at January 18, 2019. CN dropped from 51% to 43% and US increased from 9% to 12% from last week. Top 10 countries in...
