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CVE-2017-5715: The most searched security vulnerability in Q2 2021 and how to fix it

Computer security can seem like a ceaseless—and thankless—task. Vulcan Cyber is here to help in as many ways as possible, including offering Vulcan Remedy Cloud, the largest free and curated online database of tried and tested vulnerability remediation solutions. In this post, we will cover the “most searched” security vulnerability in Remedy Cloud during Q2,… Continue reading CVE-2017-5715: The most searched security vulnerability in Q2 2021 and how to fix it

Fixing the Intel Spectre CPU Vulnerability

Years ago, when we published our article about the Spectre and Meltdown vulnerabilities, a remote attack called NetSpectre had just been discovered and published, alerting the cyber security world that a Spectre attack could occur without any local code execution or access. Several years later, we’re still not finished with the threats posed by Spectre.… Continue reading Fixing the Intel Spectre CPU Vulnerability

Exploited Vulnerabilities Drive Remediation Urgencies

Knowing what NOT to do can sometimes be just as helpful as knowing the right thing to do. Oftentimes, CISOs and Vulnerability Managers have plans and practices in place that can actually be making matters worse by focusing on the wrong things. Let’s review some of these mistakes so you can avoid them in your… Continue reading Exploited Vulnerabilities Drive Remediation Urgencies

Looking Back – The Top Vulnerabilities of 2018

However you flip the number of recorded vulnerabilities in a given year, the number is at once humbling and noteworthy. We know that both actions – remediating all vulnerabilities and prioritizing a high-severity security flaw in a little-used, low-value system over a medium-severity security hole in a mission-critical system – leave your company’s most important… Continue reading Looking Back – The Top Vulnerabilities of 2018

Putting Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities in Perspective

For several months in early 2018, you could not open a browser without seeing news about Spectre and Meltdown – the variants of a vulnerability built in to just about every computer chip on the planet. Discovered in late 2017 by researcher Michael Schwarz at Graz University of Technology in Austria, Spectre and Meltdown actually… Continue reading Putting Meltdown and Spectre Vulnerabilities in Perspective