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Cisco has addressed a maximum severity authentication bypass vulnerability found in the API endpoint of the Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator installed on the Application Services Engine. "A vulnerability in an API endpoint of Cisco ACI Multi-Site Orchestrator installed on the Application Services Engine could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication on an affected device," Cisco explained.
The Mozilla Foundation has released its latest version of the Firefox browser, which comes with new privacy protections to squash cross-site cookie tracking, as well as a slew of security vulnerability fixes. "Total Cookie Protection confines cookies to the site where they were created, which prevents tracking companies from using these cookies to track your browsing from site to site," said Tim Huang, Johann Hofmann and Arthur Edelstein with Mozilla on Tuesday.
Now, FlexJobs revealed the 14 most common, and effective, job search scams. "Unfortunately, online job scams remain a troubling component of the work-from-home job market, even as the number of legitimate remote job opportunities continues to grow," said Sara Sutton, founder and CEO at FlexJobs, in a press release.
Software development platform GitHub announced on Wednesday that it has hired Mike Hanley as its new Chief Security Officer. Hanley joins GitHub from Cisco, where he served as Chief Information Security Officer.
Microsoft has released the optional KB4601382 Preview cumulative update for Windows 10 2004 and Windows 10 20H2. This cumulative update is the February 2021 monthly "C" update that allows users and admins to preview the upcoming fixes scheduled for release in the upcoming March 2021 Patch Tuesday. Microsoft is combining the latest servicing stack update into the cumulative update starting with this release.
Offensive Security has released Kali Linux 2021.1, the latest version of its popular open source penetration testing platform. A few of the terminals have also been tweaked to - as the developers noted - "Kalify" them.
Software development platform GitHub announced on Wednesday that it has hired Mike Hanley as its new Chief Security Officer. Hanley joins GitHub from Cisco, where he served as Chief Information Security Officer for less than a year.
Revealed: The military radar system swiped from aerospace biz, leaked online by Clop ransomware gang
A CAD drawing of a radar antenna stolen and leaked online by criminals is of a military radar system produced by defense contractor Leonardo and fitted to a number of US and UAE aircraft, The Register has learned. The Register can reveal Clop got its hands on at least one drawing of a Leonardo Seaspray 7500E radar antenna, and divulged on its Tor-hidden website a rendering of the hardware in some detail - without its external covers usually seen in promotional material.
The US Federal Reserve suffered a massive IT systems outage today that prevented wire transfers, ACH transactions, and other services from operating. When performing a US wire transfer or ACH withdrawal/deposit, the transaction first goes through the Federal Reserve Bank systems who facilitate the transaction.
The US Federal Reserve suffered a massive IT systems outage today that prevented wire transfers, ACH transactions, and other services from operating. When performing a US wire transfer or ACH withdrawal/deposit, the transaction first goes through the Federal Reserve Bank systems who facilitate the transaction.