Security News
VMware on Tuesday informed customers that its vCenter Server product is affected by a critical vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to execute commands with elevated privileges. vCenter Server is a management software designed to provide a centralized platform for controlling VMware vSphere environments.
IBM announced availability of Red Hat software on IBM Power Systems as well as new IBM Power Systems hardware. New IBM Power Private Cloud Rack solution - Providing clients an optimized, production-level OpenShift platform to modernize traditional environments with cloud-native applications, the IBM Power Private Cloud Rack combines on-premises hardware, a complete software stack of IBM and Red Hat technology, and installation from IBM Systems Lab Services to deliver 49% lower cost per request as compared to similarly equipped x86-based platformsii.
Cyemptive Technologies announced Cyemptive Web Fortress, a solution that protects web servers against zero-day cyberattacks in real time. Unlike other solutions on the market, which only identify and work to eliminate "Known" threats after they have infiltrated a system, Cyemptive Web Fortress protects your data and web servers against real-time cyberattacks on a preemptive, immediate basis.
Analyzing data from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, threat protection company Bitglass found that the count of healthcare breaches reported in 2020 increased to 599, a jump of more than 50% compared to the previous year. Most of the breaches were caused by hacking and IT incidents, which exposed data from 24.1 million individuals, making them vulnerable to identity theft and phishing attacks.
The servers of British cryptocurrency exchange EXMO were taken offline temporarily after being targeted in a distributed denial-of-service attack. "We are currently experiencing a DDoS attack on our platform," the exchange said in a notification published earlier today.
Media company Plex has fixed a vulnerability in its media server that could have been used by hackers to strengthen DDoS attacks. In an announcement released last Friday and updated on Saturday, Plex said that it has issued hotfix 66 for Plex Media Server to address the flaw in its product.
A new distributed denial-of-service attack vector has ensnared Plex Media Server systems to amplify malicious traffic against targets to take them offline. "Plex's startup processes unintentionally expose a Plex UPnP-enabled service registration responder to the general Internet, where it can be abused to generate reflection/amplification DDoS attacks," Netscout researchers said in a Thursday alert.
Malicious actors have been abusing Plex Media Server to amplify distributed denial-of-service attacks, according to application and network performance management company Netscout. A popular personal media library and streaming solution, Plex Media Server can be used on Windows, macOS, and Linux systems, to stream content, including that from network-attached storage devices, RAID storage, and the like.
Enterprises average 2.5 root access keys per server analyzed. Root access keys provide the highest levels of access to machines; if a threat actor gains access to root privileges, they can access anything on a remote server, or on multiple servers if the server has been cloned.
Jack Wallen walks you through the manual process of installing ModSecurity for NGINX on Ubuntu Server 20.04. ModSecurity cannot be enabled with an instance of NGINX installed with apt-get, so you must do it manually.