Vulnerabilities & Exploits

Securezoo Cybersecurity Threat Center blog posts of new vulnerabilities and exploits.

Bluetooth BR/EDR supported devices vulnerable to cyber attacks

Security researchers have identified a security vulnerability related to encryption on Bluetooth BR/EDR connections. As a result, an unauthenticated attacker near the vulnerable device could exploit the issue and escalate privileges or steal information.

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Microsoft August 2019 Security Updates

Microsoft issued the August 2019 Security Updates on Tuesday that include 93 unique vulnerability fixes, 29 of those rated critical. In addition, two of the patches address two critical Remote Code Execution (RCE) “wormable” vulnerabilities (CVE-2019-1181 and CVE-2019-1182) in Remote Desktop Services.

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SWAPGS: Newest Spectre vulnerability affects millions of systems

Security researchers have found a new side-channel attack and vulnerability that affects millions of newer Intel microprocessors. The new vulnerability CVE-2019-1125 dubbed SWAPGS is a variant of Spectre Variant 1 and bypasses previous mitigations against Spectre and Meltdown.

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Apple releases July security updates for iOS, macOS and other products

Apple released security updates that address vulnerabilities in multiple products, to include iOS, macOS, Safari, watchOS, tvOS and Apple TV Software. Additional mitigations for speculative execution vulnerabilities in Intel CPUs or “Spectre” were also included in the latest macOS update.

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