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A pair of critical vulnerabilities in a popular bulletin board software called MyBB could have been chained together to achieve remote code execution without the need for prior access to a privileged account. The flaws, which were discovered by independent security researchers Simon Scannell and Carl Smith, were reported to the MyBB Team on February 22, following which it released an update on March 10 addressing the issues.
It's looking like the exploitation of critical Exchange flaws that Microsoft revealed at the start of the month could be much worse than folks first suspected. An analysis by Slovak security shop ESET claims that six advanced criminal hacking groups, thought to have some level of state sponsorship, used the zero days to attack government and industry sites before the flaws were patched.
Veracode announced the launch of the Veracode Hacker Games. The two-week collegiate competition will challenge computer science and cybersecurity student teams from eight leading universities across the U.S. and the U.K., including University of Virginia, Tufts and University of Warwick, to test their secure coding skills and give them the opportunity to win individual prizes, plus $15,000 in charitable donations for the top universities.
Application security company F5 Networks on Wednesday published an advisory warning of four critical vulnerabilities impacting multiple products that could result in a denial of service attack and even unauthenticated remote code execution on target networks. The four critical flaws affect BIG-IP versions 11.6 or 12.x and newer, with a critical pre-auth remote code execution also affecting BIG-IQ versions 6.x and 7.x. F5 said it's not aware of any public exploitation of these issues.
F5 Networks, a leading provider of enterprise networking gear, has announced four critical remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting most BIG-IP and BIG-IQ software versions. F5 BIG-IP software and hardware customers include governments, Fortune 500 firms, banks, internet service providers, and consumer brands, with the company claiming that "48 of the Fortune 50 rely on F5.".
F5 Networks, a leading provider of enterprise networking gear, has announced four critical remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting most BIG-IP and BIG-IQ software versions. F5 BIG-IP software and hardware customers include governments, Fortune 500 firms, banks, internet service providers, and consumer brands, with the company claiming that "48 of the Fortune 50 rely on F5.".
On the off chance you were looking for more security to-dos from Microsoft todaythe company released software updates to plug more than 82 security flaws in Windows and other supported software. This is probably a good place to quote Ghacks.net's Martin Brinkman: This is the last patch hurrah for the legacy Microsoft Edge web browser, which is being retired by Microsoft.
Microsoft has released its regularly scheduled March Patch Tuesday updates, which address 89 security vulnerabilities overall. Included in the slew are 14 critical flaws and 75 important-severity flaws.
Patches for four actively exploited Exchange Server vulnerabilities have already been delivered with the updates for supported versions released last week. Among the vulnerabilities patched by Microsoft on this March 2021 Patch Tuesday are several deserving extra attention.
It's raining patches in the Microsoft Windows ecosystem. Software giant on Tuesday dropped a mega-batch of security updates with patches for a whopping 89 documented vulnerabilities, including one used in zero-day attacks against some in the white-hat hacker community.