vulnerability

Have you updated SaltStack Salt? Attacks are underway!
Have you updated your SaltStack Salt “masters” and made them inaccessible over the internet – or at least restricted access to them? Even though F-Secure …

GitHub Code Scanning aims to prevent vulnerabilities in open source software
GitHub has made available two new security features for open and private repositories: code scanning (as a GitHub-native experience) and secret scanning (both still in beta). …

Software vulnerabilities sometimes first announced on social media
Software vulnerabilities are more likely to be discussed on social media before they’re revealed on a government reporting site, a practice that could pose a national …

Nearly a million WordPress sites targeted in extensive attacks
A threat actor is actively trying to insert a backdoor into and compromise WordPress-based sites to redirect visitors to malvertising. “While our records show that this …

SaltStack Salt vulnerabilities actively exploited by attackers, patch ASAP!
Two vulnerabilities in SaltStack Salt, an open-source remote task and configuration management framework, are being actively exploited by attackers, CISA warns. About …

Adobe fixes critical flaws in Magento, Adobe Illustrator and Bridge
Adobe has pushed out security updates fixing critical flaws in Magento Commerce, Open Source Enterprise and Community editions, Adobe Illustrator 2020 for Windows, and Adobe …

Massive work-from-home movement exposes cybersecurity weaknesses
News coverage of the recent uptick in cyber threat activity is showing an incomplete picture. Despite the focus on VPN hacks and attacks at home, computers at more than 50,000 …

Update MS Office, Paint 3D to plug RCE vulnerabilities
A week after the April 2020 Patch Tuesday, Microsoft has released out-of-band security updates for its Office suite, to fix a handful of vulnerabilities that attackers could …

Starbleed vulnerability: Attackers can gain control over FPGAs
Field Programmable Gate Arrays, FPGAs for short, are flexibly programmable computer chips that are considered very secure components in many applications. Starbleed …

Surge in remote working reveals concerns around unprotected endpoints
Millions of US businesses forced to rapidly support home working for employees are facing significant challenges to securely manage their IT networks. New research from Tanium …

Using Cisco IP phones? Fix these critical vulnerabilities
Cisco has released another batch of fixes for a number of its products. Among the vulnerabilities fixed are critical flaws affecting a variety of Cisco IP phones and Cisco UCS …

April 2020 Patch Tuesday: Microsoft fixes three actively exploited vulnerabilities
For the April 2020 Patch Tuesday, Adobe plugs 5 flaws and Microsoft 113, three of which are currently being exploited by attackers. Adobe’s updates On this Patch …
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