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Vulnerabilities in home schooling software
March 30, 2021
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McAfee's security researchers have discovered four critical security holes in Netop Vision Pro, a software for advanced classroom management widely used in Germany. Software of this type has been used extensively by German schools since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic to enable home schooling. The security flaws in the Netop software allow hackers to gain full control over the students' computers - and thus smuggle in ransomware, access private data or gain access to other accounts on the computer and local network. Lack of encryption, the fundamentally insecure design and ...

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17.3.21 webinar: Exchange gap - I can do that
March 15, 2021
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F Secure News

F-Secure invites you to the webinar: "Hafnium" vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange: Am I affected? What can I do? On March 17, 2021, 10:00-10:30 a.m. Recently, several attacks have been launched against Exchange Server using the exploit known as Hafnium. Although the underlying vulnerability was already known, and Microsoft published recommendations for it at the beginning of February and then patches for it at the beginning of March, the attack hit many companies, especially in Germany: Even if companies installed the patches promptly, the hackers were often faster and already had access the systems provided. On this occasion we want…

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Attacks on vulnerabilities in MS Exchange email servers
March 11, 2021
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Last week Microsoft released emergency patches for security vulnerabilities affecting Microsoft Exchange email servers. At the time of publication, Microsoft said the vulnerabilities were exposed to "targeted and limited" attacks. In the days that followed, however, the attacks skyrocketed. The American journalist and investigative reporter Brian Krebs has reported that 30.000 organizations in the United States and hundreds of thousands worldwide have been compromised by these attacks on Exchange. Other sources consider these estimates to be too low. Chris Krebs, former head of US CISA, said these attacks “will hit especially those who ...

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Update against security vulnerabilities in iOS
1. February 2021
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G Data News

Two critical security gaps in iOS devices threaten users - Apple even warns of attacks and offers an update to 14.4. Tim Berghoff from G DATA classifies the incident. Apple is currently warning of an actively exploited security gap in its iOS operating system - this means that attacks are already taking place against users. The security holes can be found in the kernel and in Apple's own “Webkit” technology, which is used to display Internet pages. The Webkit vulnerability can also be exploited remotely. All iPhone devices from version 6 are affected. Apple recommends ...

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Goodbye, Adobe Flash Player - the eternal security hole
23 November 2020
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SophosNews

For a long time one has struggled with its weaknesses, now the last days are numbered: the Adobe Flash Player finally says goodbye to the big stage at the end of the year. A swan song from Sophos. One learns to live with some cybersecurity difficulties. IT security companies have been describing the pitfalls and curiosities of the (mostly) usual suspects for years. Sometimes with a shake of the head, sometimes angry and sometimes with a bit of fatalism, for example, it is about the fact that Windows still does not display file extensions by default, that IoT devices with elementary security errors are distributed or ...

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