Security News

Cisco’s Splunk Acquisition Should Help Security Pros See Threats Sooner in Australia and New Zealand
2024-05-16 13:23

Craig Bates, Splunk vice president of Australia and New Zealand, said the deal will help customers defend against modern threats by tooling security operations centres up with end-to-end security and observability. He added security data unification will be key to organisations in the future as they battle threats increasingly launched with the aid of AI. What does the Cisco and Splunk combination mean for cyber security software customers?

Critical Git vulnerability allows RCE when cloning repositories with submodules (CVE-2024-32002)
2024-05-16 11:14

New versions of Git are out, with fixes for five vulnerabilities, the most critical of which can be used by attackers to remotely execute code during a "Clone" operation.CVE-2024-32002 is a critical vulnerability that allows specially crafted Git repositories with submodules to trick Git into writing files into a.git/ directory instead of the submodule's worktree.

Zero-Trust DNS
2024-05-16 11:03

ZTDNS aims to solve this decades-old problem by integrating the Windows DNS engine with the Windows Filtering Platform-the core component of the Windows Firewall-directly into client devices. Jake Williams, VP of research and development at consultancy Hunter Strategy, said the union of these previously disparate engines would allow updates to be made to the Windows firewall on a per-domain name basis.

Researchers Uncover 11 Security Flaws in GE HealthCare Ultrasound Machines
2024-05-16 10:12

Security researchers have disclosed almost a dozen security flaws impacting the GE HealthCare Vivid Ultrasound product family that could be exploited by malicious actors to tamper with patient...

Does a VPN Slow Down Your Internet Speed?
2024-05-16 10:09

More bluntly - do VPNs slow down your internet? Do they have a significant impact on overall stability and connectivity? What factors influence your internet speed while using a VPN? We'll answer these questions and more below! Quality VPNs will typically slow down your internet speed only by around 10-20%, if at all.

NCSC CTO: Broken market must be fixed to usher in new tech
2024-05-16 09:33

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Google fixes third exploited Chrome zero-day in a week (CVE-2024-4947)
2024-05-16 08:49

For the third time in the last seven days, Google has fixed a Chrome zero-day vulnerability for which an exploit exists in the wild.While the two Chrome zero days fixed in the past few days have been attributed to an anonymous researcher, this time around the reporters are known: Kaspersky threat researchers Vasiliy Berdnikov and Boris Larin.

Is an open-source AI vulnerability next?
2024-05-16 05:30

Let's explore why open-source AI security is lacking and what security professionals can do to improve it. First, it's essential to acknowledge that AI is not something different from software; it is software.

OWASP dep-scan: Open-source security and risk audit tool
2024-05-16 05:00

OWASP dep-scan is an open-source security and risk assessment tool that leverages information on vulnerabilities, advisories, and licensing restrictions for project dependencies. Depscan utilizes cdxgen to produce Software Bill-of-Materials, which allows us to support many different languages and source code configurations.

Ebury botnet compromises 400,000+ Linux servers
2024-05-16 04:30

In many cases, Ebury operators could gain full access to large servers of ISPs and well-known hosting providers. "We have documented cases where the infrastructure of hosting providers was compromised by Ebury. In these cases, we have seen Ebury being deployed on servers rented out by those providers, with no warning to the lessees. This resulted in cases where the Ebury actors were able to compromise thousands of servers at once," says Marc-Etienne M. Léveillé, the ESET researcher who investigated Ebury for more than a decade.