When you throw away or sell an old computer or phone, you probably remember to delete photos, messages and other personal stuff. But theres another kind of personal data that (almost) no one thinks about — and it needs to be erased not only from phones, but also from watches, printers and other smart devices — show more ...
Microsoft Corp. today issued software updates to plug more than 70 security holes in its Windows operating systems and related products, including multiple zero-day vulnerabilities currently being exploited in the wild. Six of the flaws fixed today earned Microsoft’s “critical” rating, meaning show more ...
In this episode of the podcast, host Paul Roberts speaks with Colin O'Flynn, CTO and founder of the firm NewAE about his work to patch shoddy software on his home's electric oven - and the bigger questions about owners rights to fix, tinker with or replace the software that powers their connected stuff. The show more ...
In this episode of the podcast, host Paul Roberts speaks with Colin O'Flynn, CTO and founder of the firm NewAE about his work to patch shoddy software on his home's electric oven - and the bigger questions about owners rights to fix, tinker with or replace the software that powers their connected stuff. The show more ...
A newly revealed flaw affects a good chunk of the world's computers. A patch has been released, but broad, structural change in CPU design will be required to address the root cause.
Vicarius launched vuln_GPT, which it says will generate and execute scripts to ameliorate flaws such as the TETRA backdoor.
Nearly a decade after it was disclosed, the Shellshock vulnerability still plagues organizations. Learn how to protect yourself.
Newly patched flaw allowed attackers to sneak malware past Defender, delete benign files, and inflict mayhem on target systems.
Just 79 minutes — that's how long it takes attackers to move from an initial compromise to extending their infiltration of a firm's network.
Omdia's Maxine Holt says cybersecurity practitioners need to emphasize their role in growing the business, not just preventing breaches.
Existing detection tools either provide limited functionality or aren't optimized for the cloud, Israeli startup claims.
Wi-Fi settings are easily stolen when old gadgets are gotten rid of, which puts end users in the crosshairs for network attacks.
The APT has been rampaging across three continents on behalf of China's Ministry of State Security, and now claims the throne as kings of intelligence gathering and economic espionage.
Operation Jackal involved law enforcement agencies in 21 countries and yielded more than 100 arrests.
A mistake snowballs into a serious political issue as the safety of police officers in Northern Ireland is compromised in an accidental data leak.
From e-waste to conference swag to addressing data center energy consumption, cybersecurity stakeholders need a whole-industry approach to being part of the solution and reducing the risk of climate change.
A challenge will be offered to teams to build tools using AI in order to solve open source's vulnerability challenges.
Bugs in popular digital signature schemes designed to protect crypto investors allow attackers to steal private keys gain full access to digital wallets.
Protecting the spaces where private, public, and hybrid clouds meet users' technologies requires a cloud-centric approach.
Events like RSA Conference and Infosecurity Europe provide industry collaboration opportunities required to address the evolving cybersecurity threat landscape.
Attackers are already exploiting one of Microsoft's latest fixes in the wild.
SBOMs aren't enough: Developers need to dig deeper into how software is built by using a process called binary source validation.
Without cybersecurity guardrails now, AI will be harder to harness in the future.
The open source tool — a collaboration between Robust Intelligence, MITRE, and Indiana University — assesses heavily shared, public machine learning models for risk.
Suspicious changes in entropy allow researchers to more accurately spot distributed denial-of-service attacks, but false positives remain a problem.
A highly sophisticated malware variant called SkidMap is targeting vulnerable Redis services on a wide range of Linux distributions, including Alibaba, Anolis, CentOS, and RedHat. The attack chain begins with attackers logging into unsecured Redis instances via brute force attacks and setting up variables containing cron tasks under a base64 string.
Researchers at ETH Zurich have now combined an older technique named 'Phantom speculation' (CVE-2022-23825) with a new transient execution attack called 'Training in Transient Execution' (TTE) to create an even more powerful 'Inception' attack.
The Norwegian data regulator says it will start fining Facebook parent company Meta nearly $100,000 daily starting on Monday unless the social media giant stops showing users behavioral ads without their explicit consent.
Microsoft's Visual Studio Code (VS Code) code editor and development environment contains a flaw that allows malicious extensions to retrieve authentication tokens stored in Windows, Linux, and macOS credential managers.
A majority of the bot C2 servers, which communicate with the victim hosts, are located in India and the U.S. Destination IP addresses identified from outbound T2 connections are primarily based in the U.S., India, Mexico, and Venezuela.
According to the California Privacy Protection Agency, cars are “connected computers on wheels” and should be treated as such. It recently announced its enforcement division will review the data privacy practices of connected vehicle manufacturers.
The vulnerability, known as Downfall, exploits a technique used to increase performance in the x86 architecture. By sharing a small register buffer, different applications can inadvertently leave data that can be accessed by an attacker.
As artificial intelligence amplifies the sophistication and reach of phishing, vishing, and smishing attacks, understanding and managing human cyber risks has become increasingly vital, according to the SANS Institute.
These platforms are a significant risk as they lower the bar of entry for inexperienced cybercriminals, offering them a simple and cost-effective way to launch phishing attacks with only a few clicks.
Average response time accelerated from 29 to 19 days, from 2021 to 2022, with lessons from Log4j and other high-profile vulnerabilities having a significant impact on urgency levels, according to Immersive Labs.
This comprises six Critical and 67 Important security vulnerabilities. Also released by the tech giant are two defense-in-depth updates for Microsoft Office (ADV230003) and the Memory Integrity System Readiness Scan Tool (ADV230004).
A newly identified strain of Yashma ransomware has raised concerns as it was found targeting organizations across Bulgaria, China, Vietnam, and English-speaking countries since June 4. The Yashma ransomware, a rebranding of the Chaos strain, fetches ransom notes from a controlled GitHub repository through an embedded show more ...
The exposed information encompasses sensitive details like names, addresses, phone numbers, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and select Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)-protected medical records.
Classified military networks run by Japan reportedly suffered a massive breach in 2020 at the hands of a Chinese cyberespionage group that proved tough to eject even after being discovered.
Android 14 introduces new security measures to mitigate the risks associated with 2G networks, allowing users and enterprises to disable 2G connectivity and protect against potential attacks.
Lockbit has fixed the deadline for the ransom payment on August 17, 2023. If confirmed the incident could have a dramatic impact on the privacy of cancer patients. The company has yet to disclose the security incident.
This most recent update does not vacate previously established requirements in the simple pursuit of change. Instead, the new directive pursues incremental change that builds on but does not abandon previous requirements.
SESARAM issued a statement confirming the occurrence of a “deliberate and malicious cyberattack with the sole objective of causing damage and disrupting the normal functioning of the Regional Health Service of the Autonomous Region of Madeira”.
Sen. Mark Warner sent a letter quizzing Google CEO Sundar Pichai about how the tech giant is applying privacy, trust, and ethical "guardrails" around the development and use of its generative AI product, Med-PaLM 2, in healthcare settings.
The malicious actors accessed “reference copies” of the electoral registers, held by the Commission for research purposes and to enable permissibility checks on political donations.
Researchers from the Technical University of Berlin have developed a method to jailbreak the AMD-based infotainment systems used in all recent Tesla car models and make it run any software they choose.
The abuse of zero-day and one-day vulnerabilities in the past six months led to a 143% increase in victims when comparing Q1 2022 with Q1 2023, according to a report by Akamai.
The annual Hack-A-Sat CTF competition held at Aerospace Village at the DEF CON in Las Vegas is the first time an on-orbit satellite will test contestants' mettle while bringing together hackers who don’t typically work on space systems.
Ransomware shows no signs of slowing, with ransomware activity ending 13 times higher than at the start of 2023 as a proportion of all malware detections, according to Fortinet.
Microsoft today released a defense-in-depth update for Microsoft Office that prevents exploitation of a remote code execution (RCE) vulnerability tracked as CVE-2023-36884 that threat actors have already leveraged in attacks.
Rubrik purchased a data security posture management startup backed by Salesforce and SentinelOne to provide visibility into where a company's data lives and who has access.
The additional funding will help the San Francisco-based company integrate pentesting, SOAR, and detection engineering into its platform and expand its channel and partner presence to fuel global growth.
The EuroTel ETL3100 TV and FM transmitters suffer from an unauthenticated configuration and log download vulnerability. This will enable the attacker to disclose sensitive information and help him in authentication bypass, privilege escalation and full system access.
The EuroTel ETL3100 transmitter is vulnerable to insecure direct object references that occur when the application provides direct access to objects based on user-supplied input. As a result of this vulnerability attackers can bypass authorization and access the hidden resources on the system and execute privileged functionalities.
EuroTel ETL3100 transmitters use a weak set of default administrative credentials that can be guessed in remote password attacks and gain full control of the system.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6279-1 - It was discovered that OpenSSH has an observable discrepancy leading to an information leak in the algorithm negotiation. This update mitigates the issue by tweaking the client hostkey preference ordering algorithm to prefer the default ordering if the user has a key that matches the best-preference default algorithm.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5473-1 - It was discovered that authenticated API users of Orthanc, a DICOM server for medical imaging, could overwrite arbitrary files and in some setups execute arbitrary code.
Metabase versions before 0.46.6.1 contain a flaw where the secret setup-token is accessible even after the setup process has been completed. With this token a user is able to submit the setup functionality to create a new database. When creating a new database, an H2 database string is created with a TRIGGER that show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 4336-3 - USN-4336-1 fixed several vulnerabilities in GNU. This update provides the corresponding update for Ubuntu 14.04 LTS. It was discovered that GNU binutils contained a large number of security issues. If a user or automated system were tricked into processing a specially-crafted file, a show more ...
Ubuntu Security Notice 6278-1 - It was discovered that .NET did not properly handle the execution of certain commands. An attacker could possibly use this issue to achieve remote code execution. Benoit Foucher discovered that .NET did not properly implement the QUIC stream limit in HTTP/3. An attacker could possibly show more ...
Pyro CMS version 3.9 suffers from a server-side template injection vulnerability.
Debian Linux Security Advisory 5472-1 - It was discovered that an incorrect implementation of AES GCM decryption in cjose, a C library implementing the JOSE standard may allow an attacker to provide a truncated Authentication Tag and modify the JWE object.
Ubuntu Security Notice 6276-1 - It was discovered that unixODBC incorrectly handled certain unicode to ansi copies. An attacker could possibly use this issue to cause a denial of service.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4571-01 - Iperf is a tool which can measure maximum TCP bandwidth and tune various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, and data-gram loss.
Emagic Data Center Management Suite version 6.0 suffers from a remote command execution vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4569-01 - D-Bus is a system for sending messages between applications. It is used both for the system-wide message bus service, and as a per-user-login-session messaging facility.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4575-01 - VolSync is a Kubernetes operator that enables asynchronous replication of persistent volumes within a cluster, or across clusters.
PHPJabbers Vacation Rental Script version 4.0 suffers from a cross site request forgery vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4576-01 - VolSync is a Kubernetes operator that enables asynchronous replication of persistent volumes within a cluster, or across clusters.
Lucee version 5.4.2.17 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Red Hat Security Advisory 2023-4570-01 - Iperf is a tool which can measure maximum TCP bandwidth and tune various parameters and UDP characteristics. Iperf reports bandwidth, delay jitter, and data-gram loss.
eHato CMS version 1.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Dexx CMS HTML and Site Builder version 2.2.3 suffers from cross site scripting and arbitrary file upload vulnerabilities.
DevSoft Arge Bilişim CMS version 1.0.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Desenvolvido Buscazip Guiaking CMS version 1.0 suffers from a cross site scripting vulnerability.
Deprixa version 3.2.5 suffers from a remote SQL injection vulnerability that allows for authentication bypass.
Datoo Complete Dating Script version 1.0 suffers from an html injection vulnerability.
Microsoft has patched a total of 74 flaws in its software as part of the company's Patch Tuesday updates for August 2023, down from the voluminous 132 vulnerabilities the company fixed last month. This comprises six Critical and 67 Important security vulnerabilities. Also released by the tech giant are two defense-in-depth updates for Microsoft Office (ADV230003) and the Memory Integrity System
Exposed Kubernetes (K8s) clusters are being exploited by malicious actors to deploy cryptocurrency miners and other backdoors. Cloud security firm Aqua, in a report shared with The Hacker News, said a majority of the clusters belonged to small to medium-sized organizations, with a smaller subset tied to bigger companies, spanning financial, aerospace, automotive, industrial, and security sectors
Google has introduced a new security feature in Android 14 that allows IT administrators to disable support for 2G cellular networks in their managed device fleet. The search giant said it's introducing a second user setting to turn off support, at the model level, for null-ciphered cellular connections. "The Android Security Model assumes that all networks are hostile to keep users safe from
Validate security continuously across your full stack with Pen Testing as a Service. In today's modern security operations center (SOC), it's a battle between the defenders and the cybercriminals. Both are using tools and expertise – however, the cybercriminals have the element of surprise on their side, and a host of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) that have evolved. These external
The U.K. Electoral Commission on Tuesday disclosed a "complex" cyber attack on its systems that went undetected for over a year, allowing the threat actors to access years worth of voter data belonging to 40 million people. "The incident was identified in October 2022 after suspicious activity was detected on our systems," the regulator said. "It became clear that hostile actors had first
Tactical similarities have been unearthed between the double extortion ransomware group known as Rhysida and Vice Society, including in their targeting of education and healthcare sectors. "As Vice Society was observed deploying a variety of commodity ransomware payloads, this link does not suggest that Rhysida is exclusively used by Vice Society, but shows with at least medium confidence that
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of a trio of side-channel attacks that could be exploited to leak sensitive data from modern CPUs. Called Collide+Power (CVE-2023-20583), Downfall (CVE-2022-40982), and Inception (CVE-2023-20569), the novel methods follow the disclosure of another newly discovered security vulnerability affecting AMD's Zen 2 architecture-based processors known as
Hackers associated with China's Ministry of State Security (MSS) have been linked to attacks in 17 different countries in Asia, Europe, and North America from 2021 to 2023. Cybersecurity firm Recorded Future attributed the intrusion set to a nation-state group it tracks under the name RedHotel (previously Threat Activity Group-22 or TAG-222), which overlaps with a cluster of activity broadly
