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Week in review: Strengthening firmware security, Help Net Security: XDR Report released
2021-10-17 08:00

Help Net Security: XDR Report has been releasedThe topic of this inaugural report is extended detection and response, an emerging technology that has been receiving a lot of buzz in the last few years.

Apache OpenOffice users should upgrade to newest security release!The Apache Software Foundation has released Apache OpenOffice 4.1.11, which fixes a handful of security vulnerabilities, including CVE-2021-33035, a recently revealed RCE vulnerability that could be triggered via a specially crafted document.

REvil/Sodinokibi accounting for 73% of ransomware detections in Q2 2021McAfee released a report which examines cybercriminal activity related to ransomware and cloud threats in the second quarter of 2021.

Strengthening firmware security with hardware RoTHackers are growing smarter and more sophisticated in their attempts to avoid detection.

How to maximize your security budget while demonstrating ROIIt can be a challenge to assign an accurate monetary value to a data breach, which makes it difficult to demonstrate ROI on security spend.

AWS ransomware attacks: Not a question of if, but whenErmetic announced the results of a study about the security posture of AWS environments and their vulnerability to ransomware attacks.


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Related Vulnerability

DATE CVE VULNERABILITY TITLE RISK
2021-09-23 CVE-2021-33035 Classic Buffer Overflow vulnerability in Apache Openoffice
Apache OpenOffice opens dBase/DBF documents and shows the contents as spreadsheets.
local
low complexity
apache CWE-120
7.8