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US law enforcement and cybersecurity agencies are reminding the public that the country's voting systems will remain unaffected by distributed denial of service attacks as the next presidential election fast approaches. The feds didn't go as far as to say they expected DDoS attacks to strike the November election, but they did comment on how popular a tactic they are among politically and ideologically motivated hacktivists and cybercriminals.
CISA and the FBI said today that Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks targeting election infrastructure will, at most, hinder public access to information but will have no impact on the...
CISA has ordered U.S. Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies to secure their servers against a VMware ESXi authentication bypass vulnerability exploited in ransomware attacks. Broadcom subsidiary VMware fixed this flaw discovered by Microsoft security researchers on June 25 with the release of ESXi 8.0 U3. CVE-2024-37085 allows attackers to add a new user to the 'ESX Admins' group-not present by default but can be added after gaining high privileges on the ESXi hypervisor-which will automatically be assigned full administrative privileges.
The Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) has released patches to address multiple security vulnerabilities in the Berkeley Internet Name Domain (BIND) 9 Domain Name System (DNS) software suite that...
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added two security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The...
CISA is warning that a critical GeoServer GeoTools remote code execution flaw tracked as CVE-2024-36401 is being actively exploited in attacks. On June 30th, GeoServer disclosed a critical 9.8 severity remote code execution vulnerability in its GeoTools plugin caused by unsafely evaluating property names as XPath expressions.
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Monday added a critical security flaw impacting OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. GeoServer is an open-source software server written in Java that allows users to share and edit geospatial data.
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency says a red team exercise at a certain unnamed federal agency in 2023 revealed a string of security failings that exposed its most critical assets. The agency's dedicated red team picks a federal civilian executive branch agency to probe and does so without prior notice - all the while trying to simulate the maneuvers of a long term hostile nation-state threat group.
CISA and the FBI urged software companies on Wednesday to review their products and eliminate path OS command injection vulnerabilities before shipping. "OS command injection vulnerabilities arise when manufacturers fail to properly validate and sanitize user input when constructing commands to execute on the underlying OS," today's joint advisory explains.
More than half of open-source projects contain code written in a memory-unsafe language, a report from the U.S.'s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has found. "Hence, we determine that most critical open source projects analysed, even those written in memory-safe languages, potentially contain memory safety vulnerabilities," wrote the authors.