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A critical vulnerability in Atlassian Bitbucket Server and Data Center could be exploited by unauthorized attackers to execute malicious code on vulnerable instances. Bitbucket Server and Data Center are used by software developers around the world for source code revision control, management and hosting.
Tens of thousands of internet-facing IP cameras made by China-based Hikvision remain unpatched and exploitable despite a fix being issued for a critical security bug nearly a year ago. Awarded a CVSS score of 9.8 of 10 in severity, the Hikvision bug was considered serious enough for the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency to add it to its list of "Must patch" security flaws early this year, adding that the vulnerability is already being exploited.
DevOps platform GitLab this week issued patches to address a critical security flaw in its software that could lead to arbitrary code execution on affected systems. Tracked as CVE-2022-2884, the issue is rated 9.9 on the CVSS vulnerability scoring system and impacts all versions of GitLab Community Edition and Enterprise Edition starting from 11.3.4 before 15.1.5, 15.2 before 15.2.3, and 15.3 before 15.3.1.
"In most cases, the vulnerabilities exist because the software fully trusted data coming from the PLC without performing extensive security checks," Team82 said. Security researchers at Accenture have highlighted the following point: the type of data being sold online after ransomware attacks is exactly the sort of stuff that's ideal for launching business email compromise attacks.
Apple is urging macOS, iPhone and iPad users immediately to install respective updates this week that includes fixes for two zero-days under active attack. Patches address two flaws, which basically impact any Apple device that can run either iOS 15 or the Monterey version of its desktop OS, according to security updates released by Apple Wednesday.
Apple on Wednesday released security updates for iOS, iPadOS, and macOS platforms to remediate two zero-day vulnerabilities previously exploited by threat actors to compromise its devices. CVE-2022-32894 - An out-of-bounds issue in the operating system's Kernel that could be abused by a malicious application to execute arbitrary code with the highest privileges.
Of the 121 Microsoft bugs, 17 are considered critical. First, CVE-2022-34713, a remote code execution vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Support Diagnostic Tool that's under active attack.
Microsoft says that some of the Exchange Server flaws addressed as part of the August 2022 Patch Tuesday also require admins to manually enable Extended Protection on affected servers to fully block attacks. Remote attackers can exploit these Exchange bugs to escalate privileges in low-complexity attacks after tricking targets into visiting a malicious server using phishing emails or chat messages.
Today is Microsoft's August 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for the actively exploited 'DogWalk' zero-day vulnerability and a total of 121 flaws. [...]
Browser synchronization abuse: Bookmarks as a covert data exfiltration channelTwo universal and seemingly innocuous browser features - the ability to create bookmarks and browser synchronization - make users' lives easier, but may also allow hackers to establish a covert data exfiltration channel. 6 ways your cloud data security policies are slowing innovation - and how to avoid thatAs practically every organization shifts from managing their data in network-based data centers to storing it in the cloud, cloud data security policies are created to secure this data in a cloud environment.