Plesk 12 Security Updates Issued

Security updates have been issued for several Linux distributions to address a flaw in Sudo. Sudo allows users to run programs with the security privileges of another user, by default the superuser. Users must, by default, supply their own password for authentication, rather than the password of the target…

A vulnerability in Intel’s Active Management Technology (AMT) feature of Intel processors appears relatively easy to abusive. A remote control authentication screen can be bypassed using a blank string through a proxy server. AMT lets sysadmins perform powerful tasks over a remote connection.

 Adobe’s first round of security updates for 2019 resolve two critical flaws for Adobe Acrobat and Reader for Windows and MacOS. These updates address critical vulnerabilities, CVE-2018-16011 and CVE-2018-19725.

Newsletter, a free WordPress plugin with more than 300,000 installations, was found to contain multiple vulnerabilities that could eventually lead to the takeover of an affected website. The bugs were discovered by the Wordfence team who notified the developer of the plugin.

Attackers are hijacking vulnerable home routers to launch attacks against WordPress sites. The attacks exploit two flaws in the TR-069 router management protocol to send malicious requests to port 7547. Experts have been advising home users to limit access to port 7547. Internet service providers (ISPs) could take steps…

Product Description: MariaDB Server is one of the most popular database servers in the world. It is developed by the original creators of the ubiquitous MySQL server and it is guaranteed by the developers to remain open source software. Notable users of MariaDB include Wikipedia, WordPress.com and Google. MariaDB…

cPanel has released new builds for all public update tiers. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with the cPanel & WHM product. These builds are currently available to all customers via the standard update system. cPanel has rated these updates as having CVSSv3 scores ranging from…

An update for cPanel was just released to address various security vulnerabilities. These updates provide targeted changes to address security concerns with cPanel and WHM. We recommend that you update as soon as possible.

A serious vulnerability has been discovered in older versions of the popular Code Snippets plugin for WordPress. The flaw allowed anybody to forge a request on behalf of an administrator and inject executable code on a vulnerable site. This is a Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) to Remote Code Execution…

WordPress 4.2.3 is now available. This is a critical security release for all previous versions and we strongly encourage you to update your sites immediately.

Simply patching systems against the Bash/Shellshock vulnerability may not be adequate. Attacks exploiting the flaw appeared within a day of its disclosure. Those attacks may have made changes to systems that would not be remedied by the application of a patch.

  Multiple vulnerabilities for the Drupal CMS have been discovered. Drupal have released versions 8.3.4 and 7.56 which contain fixes for these security vulnerabilities. We recommend that you update Drupal as soon as possible.

Over the past two years, processors, in particular processors made by Intel, have been targeted by an unending series of attacks that have made it possible for skilled attackers to intercept passwords, encryption keys, and other secrets out of data stored in resident memory.

VMware has fixed a critical flaw in its vCenter Server that could be exploited to execute code remotely. The vulnerability affects vCenter versions 6.5 and 6.0. Users are urged to upgrade to versions 6.5c or 6.0U3b. US-CERT warned about the vulnerability, stressing exploitation could result in an attacker taking…

Oakley Capital has acquired web hosting control panel Plesk in a deal valued at $105 million, making Plesk a completely independent company from Parallels. According to a statement by Plesk on Friday, it plans to move beyond traditional web hosting into the hyperscale cloud – offering support for WordPress…