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SEC's new cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance, and incident disclosure rules, which require increased transparency around cybersecurity incidents, have been in effect since December 18, 2023. For businesses that already harbor concerns over their cybersecurity protections, visibility, and incident response preparedness, meeting the SEC's new incident reporting rules can be a serious challenge.
Network-attached storage specialist QNAP has disclosed and released fixes for two new vulnerabilities, one of them a zero-day discovered in early November. Unit 42's assessment, on the other hand, was the polar opposite: "These remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting IoT devices exhibit a combination of low attack complexity and critical impact, making them an irresistible target for threat actors. As a result, protecting IoT devices against such threats is an urgent task."
The only workaround recommended by Fortinet is to disable the SSL VPN. Disabling webmode won't mitigate the vulnerability, it said. Firstly, Fortinet backtracked and said these weren't vulnerabilities at all, instead explaining that they were issued in error and were duplicates of the single vulnerability mentioned in the aforementioned October advisory - CVE-2023-34992.
Fortinet is warning of two new unpatched patch bypasses for a critical remote code execution vulnerability in FortiSIEM, Fortinet's SIEM solution.Fortinet added the two new vulnerabilities tracked as CVE-2024-23108 and CVE-2024-23109 to the original advisory for the CVE-2023-34992 flaw in a very confusing update.
A German court has charged a programmer investigating an IT problem with hacking and fined them €3,000 for what it deemed was unauthorized access to external computer systems and spying on data. The programmer examined the software and found that it established a MySQL connection with a remote server belonging to Modern Solution GmbH, the management software vendor.
SonicWall says it has observed thousands of daily attempts to exploit an Apache OFBiz zero-day for nearly a fortnight. If you use the Apache Software Foundation framework, which includes business process automation apps and other enterprise-friendly functions, you should upgrade to OFBiz version 18.12.11 immediately to patch both this and a second, equally serious hole.
The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission's new rules around disclosure of cybersecurity incidents go into effect on Dec. 15 for public companies with fiscal years starting on or after that date.Now, those organizations are asking what they need to alter or enhance about their disclosure procedures, incident response and existing cyber capabilities.
The most notable example is the US Securities and Exchange Commission's new rules on cybersecurity risk management, strategy, governance and incident disclosure. The new disclosure rules are designed to provide investors with a greater understanding of the risks a listed company faces from cyber threats and the level of controls in place to mitigate that risk.
The conversation also touches on the broader ethical considerations in cybersecurity and the impact of emerging technologies on vulnerability disclosure practices and offers advice for cybersecurity professionals grappling with these critical decisions. Some might argue that in the interest of the public, public disclosure is the most ethical approach as it ensures the issue is closed as quick as possible.
Flaws in the vulnerability disclosure process of open-source projects could be exploited by attackers to harvest the information needed to launch attacks before patches are made available, Aqua Security researchers worry. "Half-day" vulnerabilities are known to the maintainer and information about them is publicly exposed on GitHub or the National Vulnerability Database, but there's still no official fix.