The US Department of Defense (DoD) is getting ready to launch the third installment of its ‘Hack the Pentagon’ bug bounty program, which will focus on the Facility Related Controls System (FRCS) network. Hack the Pentagon was launched in 2016 on HackerOne, when the DoD invited ethical hackers to find and report security defects in ..
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Most internet-exposed Cacti installations have not been patched against a critical-severity command injection vulnerability that is being exploited in attacks. An open-source web-based network monitoring and graphing tool that offers an operational monitoring and fault management framework, Cacti is a front-end application for the data logging utility RRDtool. In early December 2022, the tool’s maintainers ..
Security researchers are observing exploitation attempts targeting a critical Control Web Panel (CWP) vulnerability, following the publication of proof-of-concept (PoC) code in early January. Formerly CentOS Web Panel, CWP is a popular, free web hosting panel for enterprise-based Linux systems, offering support for the management and security of both servers and clients. Tracked as CVE-2022-44877 ..
The first round of security advisories published by Juniper Networks for 2023 cover hundreds of vulnerabilities that have been patched in the networking giant’s products. The 32 Juniper Networks security advisories published by the company this week cover more than 230 vulnerabilities, roughly 200 of which impact third-party components. Three advisories have an overall severity rating ..
Fortinet reported this week that a recently patched vulnerability tracked as CVE-2022-42475 has been exploited in highly targeted attacks aimed at government organizations. The security hole impacts the FortiOS SSL-VPN and it can allow a remote, unauthenticated hacker to execute arbitrary code or commands using specially crafted requests. The vulnerability’s existence was disclosed on December ..
Getty Images reader comments 20 with 0 posters participating Share this story Malicious hackers have begun exploiting a critical vulnerability in unpatched versions of the Control Web Panel, a widely used interface for web hosting. “This is an unauthenticated RCE,” members of the Shadowserver group wrote on Twitter, using the abbreviation for remote code exploit. ..
Electric car maker Tesla is using the annual Pwn2Own hacker contest to incentivize security researchers to showcase complex exploit chains that can lead to complete vehicle compromise. Tesla, in tandem with Pwn2Own organizations Zero Day Initiative, is offering a $600,000 cash prize to any hacker capable of writing exploits that pivot through multiple systems in ..
reader comments 42 with 0 posters participating Share this story An unknown threat actor abused a critical vulnerability in Fortinet’s FortiOS SSL-VPN to infect government and government-related organizations with advanced custom-made malware, the company said in an autopsy report on Wednesday. Tracked as CVE-2022-42475, the vulnerability is a heap-based buffer overflow that allows hackers to ..
Twitter says it has analyzed the recently advertised databases allegedly containing the information of hundreds of millions of its users and found no evidence that a vulnerability has been exploited. In August 2022, Twitter informed customers that a vulnerability in its systems had been exploited to obtain user data. The flaw, patched in January 2022, ..
Cisco this week announced that no patches will be released for a critical-severity vulnerability impacting small business RV016, RV042, RV042G, and RV082 routers, which have reached end of life (EoL). Tracked as CVE-2023-20025 (CVSS score of 9.0), the security defect impacts the web-based management interface of the routers and could be exploited to bypass authentication. ..
