Security News > 2023 > October
Today is Microsoft's October 2023 Patch Tuesday, with security updates for 104 flaws, including three actively exploited zero-day vulnerabilities. While forty-five remote code execution bugs were fixed, Microsoft only rated twelve vulnerabilities as 'Critical,' all of which are RCE flaws.
Spanish airline Air Europa, the country's third-largest airline and a member of the SkyTeam alliance, warned customers on Monday to cancel their credit cards after attackers accessed their card information in a recent data breach. The credit card details exposed in the breach include card numbers, expiration dates, and the 3-digit CVV code on the back of the payment cards.
Microsoft is planning to phase out VBScript in future Windows releases after 30 years of use, making it an on-demand feature until it is removed. With the July 2019 Patch Tuesday cumulative updates, Microsoft also disabled VBScript by default in Internet Explorer 11 on Windows 10.
Cue files - which store the metadata that defines the layout of music on a CD. Given that it's often used alongside the FLAC audio format, open source audio players like Audacious are dependent on the library. The tracker-miners application initializes automatically when a file is either added or modified in a subdirectory of the home directory.
TechRepublic Premium Portable Storage Policy Portable storage media allow employees to access or back up business data both inside and outside the office. The ease of use presented by portable storage devices can also place companies at significant risk of lost or stolen data.
TechRepublic Premium Portable Storage Policy Portable storage media allow employees to access or back up business data both inside and outside the office. Malware can infect portable storage media, which can then be inadvertently or purposely introduced .... TechRepublic Premium MSP Best Practices: Network Switch and Router Deployment Checklist No managed services provider should lock itself out of the very network switches or routers it deploys, yet such accidents occur.
TechRepublic Premium Portable Storage Policy Portable storage media allow employees to access or back up business data both inside and outside the office. Malware can infect portable storage media, which can then be inadvertently or purposely introduced .... TechRepublic Premium MSP Best Practices: Network Switch and Router Deployment Checklist No managed services provider should lock itself out of the very network switches or routers it deploys, yet such accidents occur.
Citrix NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway are impacted by a critical severity flaw that allows the disclosure of sensitive information from vulnerable appliances. "Cloud Software Group strongly urges affected customers of NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway to install the relevant updated versions of NetScaler ADC and NetScaler Gateway as soon as possible," reads Citrix's security bulletin.
Amazon Web Services (AWS), Cloudflare, and Google on Tuesday said they took steps to mitigate record-breaking distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks that relied on a novel technique called...
Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand organizations know they're rapidly hurtling towards a security precipice and are willing to invest to try to save themselves from tipping over. New research from Gartner shows that security is becoming one of the most lucrative areas of IT in both countries.