Cisco Releases Security Updates

Cisco has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Cisco products. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. For updates addressing lower severity vulnerabilities see the Cisco Security Advisories page. Therefore, Bhutan Computer Incident Response Team recommends  users and administrators to review  the following Cisco Advisories and apply the necessary updates: Cisco FXOS and NX-OS Software Cisco Fabric Services Denial of Service Vulnerability cisco-sa-fxos-nxos-cfs-dos-dAmnymbd Cisco Nexus 3000 and 9000 Series Switches Privilege Escalation Vulnerability cisco-sa-n3n9k-priv-escal-3QhXJBC Cisco NX-OS Software Data Management Engine Remote Code Execution Vulnerability cisco-sa-nxos-dme-rce-cbE3nhZS Cisco NX-OS Software Border Gateway Protocol Multicast VPN Session Denial of Service...

Mozilla Releases Security Updates

Mozilla has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in Firefox, Firefox ESR, and Thunderbird. An attacker could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system. Therefore, Bhutan Computer Incident Response Team recommends  users and administrators to review  the following Mozilla Security Advisories and apply the necessary updates. Firefox 80 Firefox ESR 68.12 Firefox ESR 78.2 Thunderbird 68.12 Thunderbird 78.2...

Google Releases Security Updates for Chrome

Google has released Chrome version 85.0.4183.83 for Windows, Mac, and Linux. This version addresses vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to take control of an affected system. Therefore, Bhutan Computer Incident Response Team recommends  users and administrators to review  the  Chrome Release and apply the necessary update...

Advisory for Safe Social Media Account Administration

As Bhutan is currently under lockdown, all citizens are heavily reliant on information and news from government and media social accounts/pages on Facebook, Twitter and other platforms. In the past cybercriminals have hacked into the social accounts of many Bhutanese individuals, businesses and organizers such as Voice of Bhutan, Actor Tshering Gyeltshen and more recently Yee Getaway, to name a few. Cybercriminals are increasingly targeting pages with a large number of followers to gain access and extort money from the owners, send malicious links to its followers or spread fake news and unwanted information on the compromised pages. In...