Microsoft Patch Tuesday for May 2021 — Snort rules and prominent vulnerabilities
By Jon Munshaw, with contributions from Chris Neal. Microsoft released its monthly security update Tuesday, disclosing 55 vulnerabilities across its suite of products, the fewest in any month since January 2020. There are only three critical vulnerabilities patched in this mont
Vulnerability Spotlight: Code execution vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader
Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered an arbitrary code execution vulnerability in Adobe Acrobat Reader. Adobe Acrobat Reader is one of the most popular and feature-rich PDF readers on the market. T
Talos Takes Ep. #52: Celebrating World Password Day by talking about getting rid of passwords
The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. The internet celebrated World Password Day on Thursday. To celebrate, we had Dave Lewis on the latest episode of Talos T
Threat Source Newsletter (May 6, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. COVID-19 has changed everything about our lives — no surprise there. So it also shouldn't be shocking that it's changing the way Americans view Tax Day this year. The deadline to file taxes is about a m
Vulnerability Spotlight: Use-after-free vulnerability in Foxit PDF Reader
Aleksandar Nikolic of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered a use-after-free vulnerability in the Foxit PDF Reader. Foxit PDF Reader is one of the most popular PDF document readers currently available. As a complete and
Talos Takes Ep. #51: COVID and Tax Day have perfectly aligned for spammers
The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. We see tax scams every year — people offering to do your taxes for you, finding a larger return, etc. But this year is
Threat Source Newsletter (April 29, 2021)
Newsletter compiled by Jon Munshaw. Good afternoon, Talos readers. Ransomware is not just financial extortion. It is crime that transcends business, academic and geographic boundaries. Talos was proud to assist with a newly released report from the international Ransomware Task
Vulnerability Spotlight: Information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux Kernel
Lilith >_> and Claudio Bozzato of Cisco Talos discovered this vulnerability. Blog by Jon Munshaw. Cisco Talos recently discovered an information disclosure vulnerability in the Linux Kernel. The Linux Kernel is the free and open-source core of Unix-like operating systems.
Talos Takes Ep. #50: Just like us, attackers are using Slack and Discord now more than ever
The latest episode of Talos Takes is available now. Download this episode and subscribe to Talos Takes using the buttons below, or visit the Talos Takes page. With more workers than ever going remote due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the popularity of collaboration apps like Discord