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11 October 2023
Google is making passkeys the default login setting for users, aiming to replace passwords and enhance security. Passkeys reduce the risk of phishing attacks and offer a more secure alternative to traditional passwords.
11 October 2023
ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens and Schneider Electric release over a dozen advisories addressing more than 40 vulnerabilities.
The post ICS Patch Tuesday: Siemens Ruggedcom Devices Affected by Nozomi Component Flaws appeared first on SecurityWeek.
11 October 2023
Security researchers exposed a cyberespionage operation named Stayin Alive, which targets the telecommunications sector and government entities in Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, Pakistan, and Vietnam. The campaign employs spear-phishing emails and DLL side-loading to deliver archive files to the victims’ systems. It is recommended to refrain from attending to unsolicited emails/messages.
11 October 2023
Adobe has released patches for multiple security vulnerabilities, including critical flaws in Adobe Commerce and Photoshop that could lead to code execution and privilege escalation.
11 October 2023
Despite the breach, Volex's operations remain largely unaffected, and the financial impact is expected to be minimal. The details of the breach, including the method of attack and any ransom demands, remain undisclosed.
11 October 2023
An audio clip of UK opposition leader Keir Starmer verbally abusing his staff, which gained significant traction on social media, has been debunked as AI-generated by private-sector and government analysis.
11 October 2023
Microsoft has released its Patch Tuesday updates for October 2023, addressing a total of 103 flaws in its software, two of which have come under active exploitation in the wild.
Of the 103 flaws, 13 are rated Critical and 90 are rated Important in severity. This is apart from 18 security vulnerabilities addressed in its Chromium-based Edge browser since the second Tuesday of September.
The two
11 October 2023
Microsoft has linked the exploitation of a recently disclosed critical flaw in Atlassian Confluence Data Center and Server to a nation-state actor it tracks as Storm-0062 (aka DarkShadow or Oro0lxy).
The tech giant's threat intelligence team said it observed in-the-wild abuse of the vulnerability since September 14, 2023.
"CVE-2023-22515 is a critical privilege escalation vulnerability in
11 October 2023
Listen to the new episode of The Security Podcasts featuring Grayson Milbourne, Security Intelligence Director at OpenText Cybersecurity.
10 October 2023
Microsoft says an APT group tracked as Storm-0062 has been hacking Confluence installations since mid-September, three weeks before Atlassian’s disclosure.
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10 October 2023
Microsoft today issued security updates for more than 100 newly-discovered vulnerabilities in its Windows operating system and related software, including four flaws that are already being exploited. In addition, Apple recently released emergency updates to quash a pair of zero-day bugs in iOS.
10 October 2023
IT leaders were surveyed on incoming security risks within the next one to three years, including generative AI, data privacy and third parties.
10 October 2023
In late August 2023, Cloudflare discovered a zero-day vulnerability, developed by an unknown threat actor that exploits the standard HTTP/2 protocol.
10 October 2023
Microsoft patches more than 100 vulnerabilities across the Windows ecosystem and warned that three are already being exploited in the wild.
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10 October 2023
The war with Hamas will inevitably absorb manpower and focus from the cybersecurity sector.
The post Beyond the Front Lines: How the Israel-Hamas War Impacts the Cybersecurity Industry appeared first on SecurityWeek.
10 October 2023
The campaign leverages multiple vulnerabilities, including command injection, remote code execution, and arbitrary command execution, to gain control of targeted devices and incorporate them into the botnet.
10 October 2023
The security practices of Chief Information Security Officers and Chief Security Officers were analyzed in a recent report by Splunk Inc.
10 October 2023
Grayling employs a combination of custom malware and publicly available tools like Havoc, Cobalt Strike, and NetSpy to carry out its attacks, using DLL sideloading techniques and exploiting vulnerabilities like CVE-2019-0803.
10 October 2023
Adobe Commerce customers exposed to code execution, privilege escalation, arbitrary file system read, and security feature bypass attacks.
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10 October 2023
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google on Tuesday said they took steps to mitigate record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that relied on a novel technique called HTTP/2 Rapid Reset.
The layer 7 attacks were detected in late August 2023, the companies said in a coordinated disclosure. The cumulative susceptibility to this attack is being tracked as CVE-2023-44487,