firmware update - Tagged - Security Boulevard The Home of the Security Bloggers Network Tue, 26 Nov 2024 15:00:42 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://securityboulevard.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/android-chrome-256x256-1-32x32.png firmware update - Tagged - Security Boulevard 32 32 133346385 QNAP’s Buggy Security Fix Causes Chaos https://securityboulevard.com/2024/11/qnap-bad-patch-richixbw/ Tue, 26 Nov 2024 14:54:57 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2037597 Three tiny people cleaning the inside of a hard drive

RAID FAIL: NAS Maker does a CrowdStrike—cleanup on /dev/dsk/c1t2d3s4 please

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ASUS Router User? Patch ASAP! https://securityboulevard.com/2024/06/asus-router-critical-update-richixbw/ Tue, 18 Jun 2024 14:45:37 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2021854 An ASUS router, with superimposed text: “Patch ASUS ASAP”

Or junk it if EOL: Two nasty vulnerabilities need an update—pronto.

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‘Pumpkin Eclipse’ — 600,000+ Rural ISP Routers Bricked Beyond Repair https://securityboulevard.com/2024/05/pumpkin-eclipse-windstream-richixbw/ Fri, 31 May 2024 17:13:21 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=2020272 A small cabin in the middle of a forest

Daft name, serious risk: Kit from ActionTec and Sagemcom remotely ruined and required replacement.

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Attackers Host Phishing Pages on Azure https://securityboulevard.com/2019/03/attackers-host-phishing-pages-on-azure/ Fri, 01 Mar 2019 11:42:08 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1801131 DocUSign, APIs, phishing, spam, business email, CrowdStrike Microsoft

Researchers have recently seen phishing attacks against Office 365 users wherein fake log-in pages were hosted on Microsoft Azure to give them more credibility. According to researchers from security firm EdgeWave, the rogue emails claim to be from Microsoft’s Outlook or Facebook’s Workplace services and inform recipients that they have unread notifications or that their..

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Dangerous Intel Chip Flaw Patches Becoming Available https://securityboulevard.com/2017/11/dangerous-intel-chip-flaw-patches-becoming-available/ https://securityboulevard.com/2017/11/dangerous-intel-chip-flaw-patches-becoming-available/#comments Fri, 24 Nov 2017 20:24:06 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1754261 team, enterprise, remediation response crisis

Some computer manufacturers have started releasing patches for eight serious vulnerabilities in Intel processors or they have outlined firmware update plans for vulnerable models. Acer, Dell, Fujitsu, Hewlett Packard Enterprise (HPE), Lenovo, Panasonic and Intel have identified hundreds of their products, including laptops, desktops and servers, that are affected by the recently announced flaws. Intel..

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HP Patches High-Risk Vulnerability in Business Printers https://securityboulevard.com/2017/11/hp-patches-high-risk-vulnerability-business-printers/ Wed, 22 Nov 2017 22:43:29 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1754163

HP released security firmware updates this week for dozens of printers, including enterprise models, to fix a high-risk vulnerability that could allow attackers to compromise the devices. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2017-2750, stems from a failure to properly validate DLL signatures and can be exploited to execute arbitrary code on the operating system of 54..

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Intel Warns of Serious Processor Flaws https://securityboulevard.com/2017/11/intel-warns-of-serious-processor-flaws/ https://securityboulevard.com/2017/11/intel-warns-of-serious-processor-flaws/#comments Wed, 22 Nov 2017 12:22:28 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1754040 Intel Releases Microcode Spectre Patches

Intel has released firmware updates for many of its processors to fix eight high-risk flaws that can put systems at risk of complete compromise. The flaws are located in low-level technologies found in the Intel Management Engine (ME), the Intel Trusted Execution Engine (TXE) and the Intel Server Platform Services (SPS). By exploiting the vulnerabilities,..

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Not All Macs Get Firmware Security Fixes, Researchers Find https://securityboulevard.com/2017/10/not-macs-get-firmware-security-fixes-researchers-find/ Mon, 02 Oct 2017 16:00:59 +0000 https://securityboulevard.com/?p=1664159 cyber attacks

An investigation by researchers from Duo Security revealed that Apple does not consistently release security patches for known vulnerabilities in the low-level firmware code of its Mac computers. When it does, the patches can fail on some models. That said, the company is one of the very few computer manufacturers that fixes security issues in the..

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