Tag: Patch

  • Slashdot: Internet Archive Users Start Receiving Email From ‘Some Random Guy’ Criticizing Unpatched Hole

    Source URL: https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/10/20/1733227/internet-archive-users-start-receiving-email-from-some-random-guy-criticizing-unpatched-hole?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Internet Archive Users Start Receiving Email From ‘Some Random Guy’ Criticizing Unpatched Hole Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text reports on a significant data breach at the Internet Archive, detailing the potential for user data exposure due to inadequate security measures and the exploitation of…

  • Hacker News: Debian Changes OpenSSH Packaging

    Source URL: https://lwn.net/Articles/991088/ Source: Hacker News Title: Debian Changes OpenSSH Packaging Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The Debian project’s revision of OpenSSH patches following the XZ backdoor incident highlights the importance of security in software packaging and user impact assessments. The decision to separate Kerberos key exchange support into distinct packages…

  • Slashdot: Spectre Flaws Still Haunt Intel, AMD as Researchers Found Fresh Attack Method

    Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/24/10/19/0619245/spectre-flaws-still-haunt-intel-amd-as-researchers-found-fresh-attack-method?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Spectre Flaws Still Haunt Intel, AMD as Researchers Found Fresh Attack Method Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The newly disclosed cross-process Spectre attack exposes persistent flaws in Intel and AMD processors, hindering full mitigation efforts six years after the vulnerabilities’ original report. Researchers from ETH Zurich…

  • The Register: Jetpack fixes 8-year-old flaw affecting millions of WordPress sites

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/18/jetpack_patches_wordpress_vulnerability/ Source: The Register Title: Jetpack fixes 8-year-old flaw affecting millions of WordPress sites Feedly Summary: Also, new EU cyber reporting rules are live, exploiters hit the gas pedal, free PDNS for UK schools, and more in brief A critical security update for the near-ubiquitous WordPress plugin Jetpack was released last week. Site…

  • The Register: Tesla FSD faces yet another probe after fatal low-visibility crash

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/18/tesla_fsd_lowvisibility_accident/ Source: The Register Title: Tesla FSD faces yet another probe after fatal low-visibility crash Feedly Summary: Musk’s camera-only approach may not be a great idea after all? Tesla is facing yet another government investigation into the safety of its full self driving (FSD) software after a series of accidents in low-visibility conditions. ……

  • The Register: Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD as researchers find fresh attack method

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/18/spectre_problems_continue_amd_intel/ Source: The Register Title: Spectre flaws continue to haunt Intel and AMD as researchers find fresh attack method Feedly Summary: The indirect branch predictor barrier is less of a barrier than hoped Six years after the Spectre transient execution processor design flaws were disclosed, efforts to patch the problem continue to fall…

  • Alerts: Oracle Releases Quarterly Critical Patch Update Advisory for October 2024

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/17/oracle-releases-quarterly-critical-patch-update-advisory-october-2024 Source: Alerts Title: Oracle Releases Quarterly Critical Patch Update Advisory for October 2024 Feedly Summary: Oracle released its quarterly Critical Patch Update Advisory for October 2024 to address vulnerabilities in multiple products. A cyber threat actor could exploit some of these vulnerabilities to take control of an affected system.  CISA encourages users…

  • The Register: SolarWinds critical hardcoded credential bug under active exploit

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/16/solarwinds_critical_hardcoded_credential_bug/ Source: The Register Title: SolarWinds critical hardcoded credential bug under active exploit Feedly Summary: No word yet on scope of attacks A critical, hardcoded credential bug in SolarWinds’ Web Help Desk products has been found and exploited by criminals, according to the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, which has added the…

  • Alerts: CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

    Source URL: https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2024/10/15/cisa-adds-three-known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog Source: Alerts Title: CISA Adds Three Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog Feedly Summary: CISA has added three new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2024-30088 Microsoft Windows Kernel TOCTOU Race Condition Vulnerability CVE-2024-9680 Mozilla Firefox Use-After-Free Vulnerability CVE-2024-28987 SolarWinds Web Help Desk Hardcoded Credential Vulnerability These…

  • Cloud Blog: How Low Can You Go? An Analysis of 2023 Time-to-Exploit Trends

    Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/threat-intelligence/time-to-exploit-trends-2023/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: How Low Can You Go? An Analysis of 2023 Time-to-Exploit Trends Feedly Summary: Written by: Casey Charrier, Robert Weiner Mandiant analyzed 138 vulnerabilities that were disclosed in 2023 and that we tracked as exploited in the wild. Consistent with past analyses, the majority (97) of these vulnerabilities were…