Security News

Hands up who DIDN'T exploit this years-old flaw to ransack a US govt web server...
2023-03-15 23:00

Multiple criminals, including at least potentially one nation-state group, broke into a US federal government agency's Microsoft Internet Information Services web server by exploiting a critical three-year-old Telerik bug to achieve remote code execution. "Analysts determined that multiple cyber threat actors, including an APT actor, were able to exploit a.NET deserialization vulnerability in Progress Telerik user interface for ASP.NET AJAX, located in the agency's Microsoft Internet Information Services web server," the joint advisory said.

Learn the basics of cybersecurity with this $60 web-based training package
2023-03-14 20:35

To get started on your training, we suggest checking out the Premium Ethical Hacking Certification Bundle, currently on sale for a limited time. It features eight courses that illustrate the basics of cyber security, shows students how to test various types of infrastructure and acquaints them with a lot of the tools that IT professionals use every day.

Reddit is down in major outage blocking access to web, mobile apps
2023-03-14 19:49

Reddit is investigating a major outage that is blocking users worldwide from accessing the social network's website and mobile apps. According to its official status page, Reddit confirmed that its website and apps are currently down, and its engineers looking into the root cause of this outage.

Reddit down in outage that blocks access to web and mobile apps
2023-03-14 19:49

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GoBruteforcer: New Golang-Based Malware Breaches Web Servers Via Brute-Force Attacks
2023-03-14 12:02

A new Golang-based malware dubbed GoBruteforcer has been found targeting web servers running phpMyAdmin, MySQL, FTP, and Postgres to corral the devices into a botnet. The malware is mainly designed to single out Unix-like platforms running x86, x64 and ARM architectures, with GoBruteforcer attempting to obtain access via a brute-force attack using a list of credentials hard-coded into the binary.

Google One expands security features to all plans with dark web report, VPN access
2023-03-09 08:16

Secondly, introducing the dark web report in the U.S. will aid in better monitoring personal information.Google One has announced that VPN access will be expanded to all its plans, including the Basic plan that starts at $1.99/month.

Cisco patches critical Web UI RCE flaw in multiple IP phones
2023-03-01 18:28

Cisco has addressed a critical security vulnerability found in the Web UI of multiple IP Phone models that unauthenticated and remote attackers can exploit in remote code execution attacks. The security vulnerabilities were discovered by Zack Sanchez of the Cisco Advanced Security Initiatives Group during internal security testing.

CISA Issues Warning on Active Exploitation of ZK Java Web Framework Vulnerability
2023-02-28 06:42

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added a high-severity flaw affecting the ZK Framework to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog based on evidence of active exploitation. Tracked as CVE-2022-36537, the issue impacts ZK Framework versions 9.6.1, 9.6.0.1, 9.5.1.3, 9.0.1.2, and 8.6.4.1, and allows threat actors to retrieve sensitive information via specially crafted requests.

How IT jobs and recruiting on the dark web might trick you
2023-02-09 21:28

According to Kaspersky's new research, this tech job recruiting environment is only an illusion - legal jobs are rare on the dark web. Why are some IT pros looking for jobs on the dark web?

SonicWall warns web content filtering is broken on Windows 11 22H2
2023-02-08 22:57

Security hardware manufacturer SonicWall warned customers today of what it describes as a "Limitation" of the web content filtering feature on Windows 11, version 22H2 systems. "We have identified an inconsistency in Capture Client Windows 3.7.6 and older clients on endpoints running Windows 11 version 22H2," the company said in an advisory published on Wednesday.