CVE-2021-1647

Security eggheads discover their PCs chatting with Kim Jong Un's hackers Stuck inside with time on your hands? The US govt would like to remind you it's paying $5m for Nork hacking scalps

North Korea's hackers homed in on specific infosec researchers and infected their systems with a backdoor after luring them to a suspicious website, Google revealed on Monday. The internet giant's Threat Analysis Group said Pyongyang's snoops would send private messages to their targets – primarily folks investigating software security vulnerabilities – via Twitter, LinkedIn, Telegram, Discord, Keybase or plain ol' email, and try to lure the marks to a blog promising details of exploitable b...

Redmond keeps us hanging with on-premises Exchange flaw still to be fixed Patch Tuesday brings bug fixes for OpenSSL, IBM, SAP, Kubernetes, Adobe, and Red Hat. And Microsoft, of course

Patch Tuesday Microsoft on Tuesday released updates addressing 83 vulnerabilities in its software, which doesn't include the 13 flaws fixed in its Edge browser last week. That's up from 58 repairs made in December, 2020, a relatively light month by recent standards. Affected applications include: Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Edge (EdgeHTML-based), Microsoft Office and Microsoft Office Services and Web Apps, Microsoft Windows Codecs Library, Visual Studio, SQL Server, Microsoft Malware Protection...