A serious vulnerability named Dirty COW has been discovered recently which has put the Linux kernel under risk. It is said that this vulnerability was noticed nine years ago (since version 2.6.22 in 2007) and remained unnoticed throughout this time. A researcher named Phil Oester was the man behind the detection of this serious threat. According to him, the vulnerability is described as a race condition where the Linux kernel’s memory subsystem handles the copy-on-write (COW) breakage of private read-only memory mappings. In this way, the attackers gain write access to read-only memory updates and this paves the way to their increased privileges on the system.

Security researchers identified a new OpenSSL vulnerability, called DROWN( Decrypting RSA with Obsolete and Weakened Encryption ) on March 2016. This attack was focused on servers that use the more secure TLS protocol, which also supports the obsolete SSLv2.This vulnerability allows an attacker to decrypt the highly secured TLS encrypted communication if the server houses SSLv2 cipher support. DROWN was assigned the CVE-2016-0800 id by the us-nert on the march (https://www.us-cert.gov/ncas/bulletins/SB16-067 ). More than 11 million websites that use TLS were vulnerable to DROWN attack. If your website is protected by TLS and your server directly on indirectly supports the older SSLv2, you are also vulnerable and an attacker may exploit it to get important information such as user names, …