Microsoft's Patch Tuesday Deluge Continues With August Updates
Security experts say prioritization should be the main focus for the August updates, not the massive CVE volume.
Security experts say prioritization should be the main focus for the August updates, not the massive CVE volume.
Mozilla has scrapped the cryptographic key behind Firefox and Thunderbird downloads for Linux after an unencrypted copy of it was committed by mistake to one of the company's own private code repositories. That key is how a user, or a Linux distribution packaging the browser, co…
It's time to turn from CVSS-backed patching to choke-point patching focused on breaking chains to critical assets.
Companies treat some email domains as digital trash cans, despite the risks.
AI is making phishing, credential theft, and social engineering faster and more efficient, while traditional trust signals such as passwords, MFA, IP reputation, and geolocation become easier to bypass. Specops explains why organizations are increasingly adding device trust to th…
A study of more than 6,000 patches found that even working patches can introduce new bugs, break something else, or are open to bypass.
Switzerland's federal IT office says hackers exploited vulnerabilities to breach its Microsoft SharePoint servers and compromised approximately 200 accounts. [...]
Zapscape, a new Linux kernel vulnerability, could allow an attacker with kernel privileges inside an L1 guest virtual machine (VM) to escape KVM isolation and execute code on the host. The risk applies when nested virtualization is exposed to untrusted guests. The flaw is tracke…
Cisco has rolled out updates to address multiple critical security vulnerabilities impacting Catalyst SD-WAN and IOS XE Software as part of a comprehensive internal security review. The security issues affect Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Software, regardless of device configuration, an…
Coinspect has identified CryptoJS.lib.WordArray.random() as the weak random number generator behind the Ill Bloom wallet drains. Introduced in the JavaScript cryptography library 12 years ago, the function supplied weak entropy that affected wallet apps used to generate recovery…
Connor Riley Moucka pleaded guilty in Seattle federal court on Wednesday to computer fraud, wire fraud, aggravated identity theft and a related conspiracy over the 2024 breaches of Snowflake customer accounts. The intrusions reached at least 165 organizations and exposed records…
Researchers are calling attention to the risks inherent in automated network device provisioning, using a world-leading device manufacturer as a case study.
Some needles were manufactured with incorrect dimensions, making it difficult to remove the stylet after placement.
HashiCorp, Veeam, and the Django Software Foundation have patched 11 vulnerabilities across Terraform MCP Server, Veeam Service Provider Console, and Django. The three most serious: An unauthenticated flaw in Veeam's console that hands over a managed agent's credentials, rat…
Unitel, Angola's dominant mobile operator, continues to recover from a cyberattack that caused outages the day of the government-owned telco's public offering.
cPanel has patched a flaw that let an authenticated hosting customer execute SQL in the database's root context, crossing the privilege boundary between a cPanel account and the server's administrative database identity. It shipped in a targeted security release that closes two o…
Galaxy Research linked a suspected Bitcoin theft of 1,367.05 BTC to weak COLDCARD seeds. Coinkite says updates cannot repair seeds already generated on devices.
A Bitcoin business rarely runs a simple website. Payment processors, exchanges, wallet services, blockchain analytics products and Lightning…
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Thermo Fisher Scientific has patched a flaw in select Applied Biosystems human identification software that could allow data files to be altered before analysis software loads them. The vendor's July 31 security bulletin says nearly undetectable changes to .fsa and .hid outputs …