PC Security and Other Useful Information

New ransomware group uses SonicWall zero-day to breach networks “A financially motivated threat actor exploited a zero-day bug in Sonicwall SMA 100 Series VPN appliances to deploy new ransomware known as FiveHands on the networks of North American and European targets. The group, tracked by Mandiant threat analysts as UNC2447, exploited the CVE-2021-20016 Sonicwall vulnerability to […]

A ransomware gang made $260,000 in 5 days using the 7zip utility “A ransomware gang has made $260,000 in just five days simply by remotely encrypting files on QNAP devices using the 7zip archive program. Starting on Monday, QNAP NAS users from all over the world suddenly found their files encrypted after a ransomware operation called […]

Security Mailer Volume 21 Number 16 Mozilla updates Firefox Firefox ESR Thunderbird, Google Releases Chrome 90 Announces new release cycle Cisco Security Advisories Linux Mint has new update notifications Synopsis Updates and patches Microsoft Security Update for EDGE General Security reviews last week Wireshark updates

Security Mailer Volume 21 Number 15 Adobe releases security updates for 4 products Cisco Security Advisories Linux updates and patches Microsoft fixes over 100 vulnerabilities including 4 new vulnerabilities in Exchange Server, security advisory, other security releases General Security reviews last week, security news from this week EXCEL spreadsheet listing all patches released by Microsoft […]

Adobe Patches Slew of Critical Security Bugs in Bridge, Photoshop “The security bugs could open the door for arbitrary code-execution and full takeover of targeted machines. Adobe has released security patches tackling four critical vulnerabilities in Adobe Bridge, along with other critical and important-rated updates for bugs in Adobe Digital Editions, Adobe Photoshop and RoboHelp. […]

Microsoft Patch Tuesday, April 2021 Edition Microsoft today released updates to plug at least 110 security holes in its Windows operating systems and other products. The patches include four security fixes for Microsoft Exchange Server — the same systems that have been besieged by attacks on four separate (and zero-day) bugs in the email software […]

ParkMobile Breach Exposes License Plate Data, Mobile Numbers of 21M Users “Someone is selling account information for 21 million customers of ParkMobile, a mobile parking app that’s popular in North America. The stolen data includes customer email addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers, license plate numbers, hashed passwords and mailing addresses.”

Security Mailer Volume 21 Number 14 Mozilla updates Thunderbird Cisco Security Advisories Linux updates and patches Linux Synopsis Microsoft Security Advisory General Security reviews last week

Security mailer Volume 21 Number 13 Cisco security advisories Open Source Apache Python Samba Linux updates & patches Microsoft Security Updates General Security reviews last week Exchange Server requirement from CISA to run Safety Scanner