Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2024

Red Hat warns of a backdoor in XZ Utils data compression tools and libraries in Fedora development and experimental versions. Red Hat urges users to immediately stop using systems running Fedora development and experimental versions because of a backdoor in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. rpm and xz-libs-5.6.0-2.fc40.x86_64.rpm

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Microsoft today released updates to fix more than five dozen security holes in its Windows operating systems and related software, including three “zero day” vulnerabilities that Microsoft warns are already being exploited in active attacks.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2024

Threat actors breached the Dropbox Sign production environment and accessed customer email addresses and hashed passwords Cloud storage provider DropBox revealed that threat actors have breached the production infrastructure of the DropBox Sign eSignature service and gained access to customer information and authentication data.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 22, 2023

US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added MinIO, PaperCut, and Chrome vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. PaperCut MF/NG contains an improper access control vulnerability within the SetupCompleted class that allows authentication bypass and code execution in the context of system.

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Enterprise Software Blog

MAY 19, 2023

And as it appears, Angular is a top framework that enables developers to tackle these challenges with the help of extended features and capabilities packed in different UI libraries. But with so many out there, how can you know which is the best Angular component library? 3rd party libraries are added on top of the actual framework.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 1, 2024

While most issues can be fixed through prompt patching and updating, a few remain unfixed and may require more significant changes to the security stack to block possible attacks. March 22, 2024 Emergency Out-of-Band Windows Server Security Updates Type of vulnerability (or attack): Memory leak. Upgrade versions 7.2.0 through 7.2.2

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IT Governance

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Library branches remain open, Wi-Fi is still available and materials can still be borrowed. Records breached: According to the library’s 4 November update , there is “no evidence that the personal information of our staff or customers has been compromised”. However, public computers and printing services are unavailable.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 30, 2022

Below are the vulnerabilities added to the catalog: CVE-2018-5430 – TIBCO JasperReports Server contains a vulnerability that may allow any authenticated user read-only access to the contents of the web application, including key configuration files. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 20, 2019

Maintainers of the RubyGems package repository have removed 18 malicious versions of 11 Ruby libraries that contained a backdoor. Maintainers of the RubyGems package repository have discovered a backdoor mechanism in 18 malicious versions of 11 Ruby libraries. It overloaded the #authenticate method on the Identity class.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 8, 2023

8, 2023 – SandboxAQ today announced Sandwich, an open source framework and meta-library of cryptographic algorithms that simplifies modern cryptography management. This provides a much simpler process to create a cryptographic object, such as a secure tunnel, and helps organizations implement crypto-agility. Palo Alto, Calif.,

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Security Affairs

MAY 6, 2023

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 17, 2021

When It Comes to Software Supply Chain Security, Good Enough Just Isn’t Enough. government agencies and commercial organizations, was severely compromised when attackers introduced a malicious dynamic linking library (DLL) into the software build process. Beware of “Good Enough” Software Security. Thu, 03/18/2021 - 05:42.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 18, 2021

But that success and the openness inherent in the community have led to a major challenge – security. Therefore, any security vulnerabilities are disclosed publicly. This has given rise to a large number of open source security tools. The Best Open Source Security Tools. WhiteSource.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Experts warn of an authentication bypass zero-day flaw that affects Apache OfBiz, an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. Experts warn of a zero-day flaw that affects Apache OfBiz, an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. ” reads the report published by SonicWall.

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IT Governance

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

These are the three components of the CIA triad, an information security model designed to protect sensitive information from data breaches. The CIA triad is a widely accepted principle within the industry, and is used in ISO 27001 , the international standard for information security management.

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Security Affairs

JULY 24, 2023

OpenSSH (Open Secure Shell) is a set of open-source tools and utilities that provide secure encrypted communication over a network. The ssh-agent is a program that caches private keys for SSH public key authentication, reducing the need for regular passphrase input. ” reads the advisory published by Qualys.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 26, 2021

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. CISA published five malware analysis reports (MARs) related to samples found on compromised Pulse Secure devices. v1: Pulse Connect Secure MAR-10334057-3.v1:

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Researchers from the security firm Oxeye discovered a critical Remote Code Execution in Spotify’s Backstage (CVSS Score of 9.8). The issue can be exploited by triggering a recently disclosed VM sandbox escape vulnerability (CVE-2022-36067 aka Sandbreak) in the vm2 third-party library. ” reads the advisory published by Oxeye.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 2, 2024

Researchers from the firmware security firm Binarly released a free online scanner to detect the CVE-2024-3094 Backdoor Last week, Microsoft engineer Andres Freund discovered a backdoor issue in the latest versions of the “xz” tools and libraries. The malicious build interferes with the authentication in sshd through systemd.

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eSecurity Planet

JULY 11, 2022

Intezer Labs security researchers have identified a sophisticated new malware that targets Linux devices. The module hooks functions called in shared libraries, which is pretty common for malware, but it also implements “advanced evasion techniques” and “remote capabilities over SSH.”. ” See the Best Open Source Security Tools.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2022

Open source software libraries are frequent targets of hackers, who see them as an attractive path for stealing credentials and distributing malware. Also read: Top Code Debugging and Code Security Tools. Pyrsia: A New Era for Open-source Security? With Pyrsia validating the source and security of open-source software packages.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The attackers forged authentication tokens to access user email using an acquired Microsoft account (MSA) consumer signing key. Microsoft revealed that the Chinese group Storm-0558 stole a signing key used to breach government email accounts from a Windows crash dump.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 17, 2023

“Today we experienced an exploit on the Ledger Connect Kit, a Javascript library that implements a button allowing users to connect their Ledger device to third party DApps (wallet-connected Web sites). This is a good example of the industry working swiftly together to address security challenges.” of its npm module.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2024

Most of the Internet-facing devices are in South Korea, Hong Kong, the U.S., Sweden, and Finland. running on LG43UM7000PLA webOS 5.5.0 – 04.50.51 running on OLED55CXPUA webOS 6.3.3-442 442 (kisscurl-kinglake) – 03.36.50 running on OLED48C1PUB webOS 7.3.1-43 43 (mullet-mebin) – 03.33.85 running on OLED55CXPUA webOS 6.3.3-442

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Quick response (QR) codes are a convenient format for storing all kinds of information in a readable and secure way, at least when correctly implemented. QR logins (QRLs) are QR-code-based authentication methods designed to improve users’ login experiences. QRL Highjacking. See the Top Vulnerability Management Tools for 2022.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 28, 2024

The maintainers of the open-source platform have addressed nine security vulnerabilities, including a critical flaw, tracked as CVE-2024-23897 , that could lead to remote code execution (RCE). The open-source software uses the args4j library to parse CLI command arguments and options on the Jenkins controller.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 10, 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. The latter vulnerability could expose NTLM hashes , which are used for authentication in Windows environments. and iPadOS 17.0.3

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Security Affairs

MAY 25, 2021

A flaw in Pulse Connect Secure VPN could allow an authenticated remote attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges. Ivanti addressed a high severity Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Secure VPN appliances that could allow a remote authenticated attacker to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

The OpenSSL project fixed two high-severity flaws in its cryptography library that can trigger a DoS condition or achieve remote code execution. The OpenSSL project has issued security updates to address a couple of high-severity vulnerabilities, tracked as CVE-2022-3602 and CVE-2022-3786 , in its cryptography library.

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CILIP

MARCH 8, 2021

Feminist leadership, libraries and Covid-19. s Library which was established in 1991 and now has more than 20 paid staff ? s was Roly Keating, Chief Executive of the British Library. I have been a lifelong library lover, but have no formal training as an information professional. s Library were sown.? Adele said:

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) this week added seventeen actively exploited vulnerabilities to the Catalog. CVE Number CVE Title Required Action Due Date CVE-2021-32648 October CMS Improper Authentication 2/1/2022 CVE-2021-21315 System Information Library for node.js Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 7, 2022

“Unlike other threats that hijack shared libraries by modifying the environment variable LD_PRELOAD, this malware uses 2 different ways to load the malicious library. “The shared object hooks functions from 3 libraries: libc, libcap and Pluggable Authentication Module (PAM). ” continues the experts.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Dropbox disclosed a security breach, threat actors gained unauthorized access to 130 of its source code repositories on GitHub. In September 2022, GitHub warned of an ongoing phishing campaign targeting its users to steal credentials and two-factor authentication (2FA) codes by impersonating the CircleCI DevOps platform.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 2, 2024

SonicWall researchers discovered that an Apache patch was incomplete, still permitting authentication bypass in open-source ERP software Apache OfBiz. And issues with Barracuda’s Email Secure Gateway persist, with an FBI safety warning about an older vulnerability still outstanding. 1020000 1.26.10-gke.1235000 1235000 1.27.7-gke.1293000

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2024

In December, experts warned of an authentication bypass zero-day flaw that affects Apache OfBiz, an open-source Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. An attacker can trigger the vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-51467 , to bypass authentication to achieve a simple Server-Side Request Forgery (SSRF). in the Apache OfBiz.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2022

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 8, 2021

IT security pros have never faced more threats, whether it’s from the huge increase in remote work or aggressive nation-state sponsored hackers like those involved in the SolarWinds breach. Here are some of the most common IT security vulnerabilities and how to protect against them. Missing authentication/authorization.

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