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One researcher said he earned $30,000 from Facebook for finding a vulnerability that could have been exploited to create invisible posts on any page. Bug bounty hunter Pouya Darabi discovered in November that an attacker could have created invisible posts on any Facebook page, including verified pages, without having any permissions on the targeted page.
Researchers have discovered vulnerabilities that expose Rockwell Automation's FactoryTalk Linx and RSLinx Classic products to denial-of-service attacks. According to an advisory published by Rockwell late last month, researchers from cybersecurity firm Tenable discovered a total of four DoS vulnerabilities, three affecting FactoryTalk Linx and one impacting the FactoryTalk Services Platform.
By running a survey on whether infosec bods think the Common Vulnerability Scoring System is a useful tool for assessing security flaws, Dr Zinaida Benenson of Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg's IT Security Infrastructure Lab in Germany hopes to further the infosec world's understanding of how reliable the system really is. While the survey hopes to gain up to 300 respondents, Benenson was coy about precisely what she's hoping to prove or disprove, but she did drop The Register a hint about the current state of CVSS scoring.
An update released this week by Google for Chrome 87 patches 16 vulnerabilities, including 14 rated high severity. The company has awarded more than $100,000 for these vulnerabilities.
Several potentially serious vulnerabilities discovered in Fortinet's FortiWeb web application firewall could expose corporate networks to attacks, according to the researcher who found them. Fortinet this week informed customers about the availability of patches for a total of four vulnerabilities affecting its FortiWeb product.
Vulnerabilities discovered by Cisco Talos researchers in SoftMaker Office can be exploited for arbitrary code execution by creating malicious documents and tricking victims into opening them. A German software developer, SoftMaker Software GmbH offers individuals and enterprises a popular office software suite that includes word processing, spreadsheet, presentation, and database software components.
Millions of devices are exposed to potential attacks exploiting the vulnerabilities used in the tools that threat actors recently stole from FireEye, security and compliance solutions provider Qualys reported on Tuesday. Qualys said it identified more than 7.5 million instances related to vulnerabilities associated with the stolen FireEye tools and compromised versions of the SolarWinds Orion product.
QNAP has released security updates to fix multiple high severity security vulnerabilities impacting network-attached storage devices running the QES, QTS, and QuTS hero operating systems. CVE-2020-2503: Stored cross-site scripting QES vulnerability - enables remote attackers to inject malicious code in File Station.
Security updates available for the Treck TCP/IP stack address two critical vulnerabilities leading to remote code execution or denial-of-service. A low-level TCP/IP software library, the Treck TCP/IP stack is specifically designed for embedded systems, featuring small critical sections and a small code footprint.
Dell on Monday informed customers that updates released for some of its Wyse Thin Client products patch a couple of critical vulnerabilities that can be exploited remotely without authentication to compromise devices. Dell Wyse Thin Client is a small form-factor PC series that runs an operating system named ThinOS, which Dell advertises as "The most secure thin client operating system." According to CyberMDX, there are more than 6,000 organizations using these products, including many healthcare providers, in the U.S. alone.