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Multiple vulnerabilities have been disclosed in Hitachi Vantara's Pentaho Business Analytics software that could be abused by malicious actors to upload arbitrary data files and even execute arbitrary code on the underlying host system of the application. Pentaho is a Java-based business intelligence platform that offers data integration, analytics, online analytical processing, and mining capabilities, and counts major companies and organizations like Bell, CERN, Cipal, Logitech, Nasdaq, Telefonica, Teradata, and the National September 11 Memorial and Museum among its customers.
Out of 92 security vulnerabilities, 66 are rated critical in severity, mostly allowing code execution. Adobe has dropped a mammoth out-of-band security update this week, addressing 92 vulnerabilities across 14 products.
Apple lovers who haven't yet updated to iOS 15, you may want to pop into Settings to freshen up your iPhone now: Apple has released several critical security updates that might light a fire under your britches. On Monday and Tuesday, Apple released iOS 14.8.1, iPadOS 14.8.1, watchOS 8.1 and tvOS 15.1, patching 24 CVEs in total.
Discourse - the ultra-popular, widely deployed open-source community forum and mailing list management platform - has a critical remote code-execution bug that was fixed in an urgent update on Friday. Discourse is widely used and wildly popular, being known for topping competing forum software platforms in terms of usability.
A critical Discourse remote code execution vulnerability tracked as CVE-2021-41163 was fixed via an urgent update by the developer on Friday. Discourse is an open-source forum, long-form chat, and mailing list management platform widely deployed on the web, offering excellent usability and integration potential while focusing heavily on social features.
We know for sure that ransomware attackers and sundry dark forces want to break into critical infrastructure. Ransomware attacks on industrial environments have increased by 500 per cent since 2018.
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in softphone software from Linphone and MicroSIP that could be exploited by an unauthenticated remote adversary to crash the client and even extract sensitive information like password hashes by simply making a malicious call. SIP aka Session Initiation Protocol is a signaling protocol that's used to control interactive communication sessions, such as voice, video, chat and instant messaging, as well as games and virtual reality, between endpoints, in addition to defining rules that govern the establishment and termination of each session.
A now-patched critical vulnerability in OpenSea, the world's largest non-fungible token marketplace, could've been abused by malicious actors to drain cryptocurrency funds from a victim by sending a specially-crafted token, opening a new attack vector for exploitation. The findings come from cybersecurity firm Check Point Research, which began an investigation into the platform following public reports of stolen cryptocurrency wallets triggered by free airdropped NFTs. The issues were fixed in less than one hour of responsible disclosure on September 26, 2021.
Electronic warfare along with the supporting technology has existed for more than a century, and it is a critical capability of the U.S. armed forces today. The initial EW threats worked in a narrow band of the radio-frequency spectrum and today the spectrum is being exploited.
Is the IoT technology that powers critical infrastructure really that vulnerable and what can be done to mitigate the risks? It is unsurprising that the vulnerability of IoT and the critical infrastructure landscape as a whole to cyberattacks is becoming a growing concern within the security landscape and recent attacks on the sector have proven the need to ramp up security efforts.