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...

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 79 Firefox ESR 68.11 Firefox ESR 78.1 Thunderbird 78.1...

Google Releases Security Updates

Google has released Chrome version 84.0.4147.105 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 updates....

Cisco Releases Security Updates

Cisco has released security updates to address a vulnerability in Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA) Software and Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) Software Web Service. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to obtain sensitive information. Therefore, Bhutan Computer Incident Response Team recommends  users and administrators to review  Cisco Security Advisory cisco-sa-asaftd-ro-path-KJuQhB86 for more information and apply the necessary updates....

Adobe Releases Security Updates

Adobe has released security updates to address vulnerabilities in multiple Adobe products. 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 Adobe Security Bulletins and apply the necessary updates. Bridge APSB20-44 Photoshop APSB20-45 Prelude APSB20-46 Reader Mobile APSB20-50...