Getty Images reader comments 61 with 50 posters participating Share this story At least five US federal agencies may have experienced cyberattacks that targeted recently discovered security flaws that give hackers free rein over vulnerable networks, the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency said on Friday. The vulnerabilities in Pulse Connect Secure, a VPN that ..
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F5 Networks this week released patches to address an authentication bypass vulnerability affecting BIG-IP Access Policy Manager (APM), but fixes are not available for all impacted versions. Tracked as CVE-2021-23008, the high-severity vulnerability allows for the bypass of BIG-IP APM AD (Active Directory) authentication if the attacker can hijack a Kerberos KDC (Key Distribution Center) ..
Cloud solutions provider DigitalOcean has started informing some customers that their billing information may have been compromised after someone exploited a vulnerability in the company’s systems. In an email sent to customers, DigitalOcean said the unauthorized access occurred between April 9 and April 22, 2021, but it was apparently only “confirmed” on April 26. “An ..
Apple’s latest macOS updates patch three vulnerabilities that can be exploited to bypass security mechanisms, including one that has been exploited in the wild and one that impacts only Macs powered by the M1 chip. It was reported earlier this week that one of the security holes patched in macOS Big Sur and Catalina (CVE-2021–30657) ..
Cisco this week released patches for multiple vulnerabilities in Firepower Threat Defense (FTD) software, including high-severity issues that could be exploited for arbitrary command execution or denial-of-service (DoS) attacks. Tracked as CVE-2021-1448 and having a CVSS score of 7.8, the command injection bug is mitigated by the fact that authentication and local access are required ..
An update released this week by Google for Chrome 90 patches yet another serious vulnerability affecting the V8 JavaScript engine used by the web browser. The flaw, tracked as CVE-2021-21227 and rated high severity, was reported to Google by researcher Gengming Liu from Chinese cybersecurity firm Singular Security Lab. The researcher earned $15,000 for reporting ..
Fraud prevention technology provider Sift is now the 11th cybersecurity company to reach “unicorn” status in 2021, following a new $50 million round of venture capital funding. Sift, which rebranded itself in January 2019 by dropping “Science” from “Sift Science,” says it plans to use the new injection of cash to continue expanding its product ..
Power management solutions provider Eaton has released patches for its Intelligent Power Manager (IPM) software to address several potentially serious vulnerabilities, including ones that researchers say could allow hackers to disrupt power supply. Eaton’s IPM solution is designed to ensure system uptime and data integrity by allowing organizations to remotely monitor, manage and control the ..
Getty Images reader comments 30 with 29 posters participating Share this story When Apple released the latest version 11.3 for macOS on Monday, it didn’t just introduce support for new features and optimizations. More importantly, the company fixed a zero-day vulnerability that hackers were actively exploiting to install malware without triggering core Mac security mechanisms, ..
Apple has patched a serious security bypass vulnerability in macOS that has been exploited in the wild by at least one threat group. The tech giant on Monday informed customers that it has patched tens of vulnerabilities in macOS Catalina, Mojave and Big Sur. The Big Sur update fixes nearly 60 security holes, including a ..
