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Google has shared the phase-out timeline for Manifest V2 Chrome extensions and its plans to bring Manifest V3 to full feature parity. "Years in the making, Manifest V3 is more secure, performant, and privacy-preserving than its predecessor," said David Li, Product Manager for Chrome Extensions & Chrome Web Store.
Security researchers have disclosed an unpatched weakness in Microsoft Windows Platform Binary Table affecting all Windows-based devices since Windows 8 that could be potentially exploited to install a rootkit and compromise the integrity of devices. "These flaws make every Windows system vulnerable to easily-crafted attacks that install fraudulent vendor-specific tables," researchers from Eclypsium said in a report published on Monday.
An unpatched design flaw in the implementation of Microsoft Exchange's Autodiscover protocol has resulted in the leak of approximately 100,000 login names and passwords for Windows domains worldwide. "This is a severe security issue, since if an attacker can control such domains or has the ability to 'sniff' traffic in the same network, they can capture domain credentials in plain text that are being transferred over the wire," Guardicore's Amit Serper said in a technical report.
TechRepublic contributing writer Jack Wallen is correct that "Open source software has proved itself, time and time and time again, that it is business-grade for a very long time." Sonatype is also correct that supply chain attacks against popular open source software repositories jumped 650% over the last year. Open source keeps growing in popularity, to the tune of 2.2 trillion open source packages pulled from repositories like npmjs and Maven in 2021, according to Sonatype's study.
Microsoft has moved Windows 11 to the Windows Insider 'Release' channel in anticipation of its upcoming launch on October 5th. Until today, the Windows Insider Release channel has been offering users Windows 10 21H2, which is expected to be released next month. Starting today, Microsoft is now offering Windows 11 as an optional download within Windows Update for users with compatible hardware, as shown below.
Microsoft has moved Windows 11 to the Windows Insider 'Release' channel in anticipation of its upcoming launch on October 5th. Until today, the Windows Insider Release channel has been offering users Windows 10 21H2, which is expected to be released next month. Starting today, Microsoft is now offering Windows 11 as an optional download within Windows Update for users with compatible hardware, as shown below.
A newly discovered cyberespionage group has been targeting hotels worldwide around the world since at least 2019, as well as higher-profile targets such as governments, international organizations, law firms, and engineering companies. Slovakian internet security firm ESET spotted the hacking group and described it as an "Advanced persistent threat."
Issuing and installing SSL certificates doesn't have to be a challenge, especially when there are tools like acme. Installing SSL certificates isn't difficult, but it's a process every Linux administrator will have to take on at some point in their career.
Cybersecurity frameworks such as ISO 27001, the international framework that defines best practices for an information security management system, can help organizations tackle business risk and enhance overall cyber-defense. In addition to ISO 27001, there are several other frameworks to consider, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework, which offers in-depth support to help enterprises identify the necessary actions to address and decrease risk.
Microsoft's autodiscover process can include numerous different steps, as explained in its own Autodiscover documentation, and different apps may use slightly different variants on the Microsoft's central theme. The researchers claim that over the next four months, they collected more than 1,000,000 unsolicited and unexpected autodiscover requests, of which a significant minority included authentication tokens or plaintext passwords that could, in theory, give access to the leaked accounts.