Flaws in Roche Medical Devices Can Put Patients at Risk

Vulnerabilities discovered in several medical devices made by the diagnostics division of Swiss-based healthcare company Roche can put patients at risk, a cybersecurity firm has warned.

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Prioritizing Flaws Based on Severity Increasingly Ineffective: Study

The large number of vulnerabilities found every year has made it increasingly difficult for organizations to effectively prioritize the security holes exposing their applications and networks, according to a new report published on Wednesday by Tenable.

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Adobe ColdFusion Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild

A recently patched remote code execution vulnerability affecting the Adobe ColdFusion web application development platform has been exploited in the wild by one or more threat groups, Volexity warned on Thursday.

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Several Vulnerabilities Patched in nginx

Updates released this week for the nginx open source web server software address several denial-of-service (DoS) vulnerabilities.

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Default Account Exposes Cisco Switches to Remote Attacks

A default account present in Cisco Small Business switches can allow remote attackers to gain complete access to vulnerable devices. The networking giant has yet to release patches, but a workaround is available.

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Google Wants More Projects Integrated With OSS-Fuzz

Google this week revealed plans to reach out to critical open source projects and invite them to integrate with OSS-Fuzz.

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Evernote Flaw Allows Hackers to Steal Files, Execute Commands

A serious cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability discovered in the Evernote application for Windows can be exploited to steal files and execute arbitrary commands.

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Researchers Break Full-Disk Encryption of Popular SSDs

The encryption mechanism used by several types of solid state drives contains vulnerabilities that an attacker could exploit to access encrypted data without knowing a password.

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Apache Struts Users Told to Update Vulnerable Component

Apache Struts developers are urging users to update a file upload library due to the existence of two vulnerabilities that can be exploited for remote code execution and denial-of-service (DoS) attacks.

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U.S. Air Force Announces Third Bug Bounty Program

The United States Air Force on Monday announced that it has launched its third bug bounty program in collaboration with HackerOne.

Hack the Air Force 3.0 is the largest bug bounty program run by the U.S. government to date, spanning 191 countries and lasting more than four weeks.

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