reader comments 142 with 111 posters participating Share this story For years, Israeli digital forensics firm Cellebrite has helped governments and police around the world break into confiscated mobile phones, mostly by exploiting vulnerabilities that went overlooked by device manufacturers. Now, Moxie Marlinspike—creator of the Signal messaging app—has turned the tables on Cellebrite. On Wednesday, ..
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reader comments 59 with 44 posters participating Share this story Hackers backed by nation-states are exploiting critical vulnerabilities in the Pulse Secure VPN to bypass two-factor authentication protections and gain stealthy access to networks belonging to a raft of organizations in the US Defense industry and elsewhere, researchers said. At least one of the security ..
On Tuesday, as part of its April 2021 Security Patch Day, SAP announced the release of 14 new security notes and 5 updates to previously released notes. The only new Hot News note released with this round of patches addresses a critical vulnerability in SAP Commerce. Tracked as CVE-2021-27602 and featuring a CVSS score of ..
Siemens released a total of 14 new advisories on Tuesday, including five describing the impact and remediations for the NAME:WRECK vulnerabilities disclosed on the same day. IoT security company Forescout on Tuesday revealed that four popular TCP/IP stacks — specifically FreeBSD, Siemens’ Nucleus, IPnet and NetX — are affected by a total of nine DNS-related ..
Microsoft this week announced the open source availability of Python code for “CyberBattleSim,” a research toolkit that supports simulating complex computer systems. Designed to help advance artificial intelligence and machine learning, the experimental research project was designed to aid in the analysis of how “autonomous agents operate in a simulated enterprise environment using high-level abstraction ..
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has released a new tool to help with the detection of potential compromise within Microsoft Azure and Microsoft 365 environments. Dubbed Aviary, the new tool is a dashboard that makes it easy to visualize and analyze output from Sparrow, the compromise detection tool ..
Getty Images reader comments 27 with 20 posters participating, including story author Share this story A newly discovered cryptomining worm is stepping up its targeting of Windows and Linux devices with a batch of new exploits and capabilities, a researcher said. Research company Juniper started monitoring what it’s calling the Sysrv botnet in December. One ..
The Pwn2Own 2021 hacking competition has come to an end, with participants earning more than $1.2 million — more than ever paid out at the event — for exploits in the browser, virtualization, server, local privilege escalation, and enterprise communications categories. Over the course of three days, participants made 23 attempts, targeting Safari, Chrome, Edge, ..
Cisco this week announced patches for tens of vulnerabilities across its product portfolio, including a critical severity issue impacting the SD-WAN vManage software. Tracked as CVE-2021-1479 with a CVSS score of 9.8, the critical bug exists because of improper validation of user-supplied input and could allow an attacker to trigger a buffer overflow by sending ..
NEWS ANALYSIS: Google’s decision to promote Rust for low-level Android programming is another sign that the shelf-life for memory corruption mitigations are no match for the speed of in-the-wild exploit development. Just 13 years after Google introduced the sandbox in Chrome touting “a new approach in browser security,” the company is now blaming the limitations ..
