Kronos Ransomware Outage Drives Widespread Payroll Chaos

Kronos, the workforce management platform, has been hit with a ransomware attack that it says will leave its cloud-based services unavailable for several weeks – and it’s suggesting that customers seek other ways to get payroll and other HR tasks accomplished. The outage has left cataclysmic issu...

Amazon Web Service outage is impacting major websites

By Waqas Amazon Web Service AWS is suffering a major service outage that is affecting popular platforms in regions where the company provides services. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Amazon Web Service outage is impacting major websites...

Bandwidth.com reports multimillion dollar loss post DDoS attacks

By Waqas In September 2021, Bandwidth.com suffered a series of days-long DDoS attacks forcing its service to go offline in the United States. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Bandwidth.com reports multimillion dollar loss post DDoS attacks...

CVE-2021-36318

Dell EMC Avamar versions 18.2,19.1,19.2,19.3,19.4 contain a plain-text password storage vulnerability. A high privileged user could potentially exploit this vulnerability, leading to a complete outage...

Google Chrome Memory Leak Confidential Data Compromise

The vulnerability of Google Chrome’s browser Extensions relates to the use of memory after it is freed. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow an attacker to gain access to confidential data, compromise its integrity, and even cause service interruptions through a specially created HTML page...

OpenJDK: Unexpected exception raised during TLS handshake (JSSE, 8267729)

Vulnerability in the Java SE, Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition product of Oracle Java SE component: JSSE. Supported versions that are affected are Java SE: 8u301, 11.0.12, 17; Oracle GraalVM Enterprise Edition: 20.3.3 and 21.2.0. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows unauthenticated attacker...

VMware Analytics Service DoS

The vulnerability of the Analytics service in the management tool for VMware vCenter Server and VMware Cloud Foundation virtualization platforms exists due to insufficient validation of input data. Exploiting this vulnerability can allow attackers to cause service failures...

The Impact of Third-Party Scripts on the Facebook Outage

A lot has already been written about the Facebook outage earlier this week. In case you missed it if that’s possible, Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, and WhatsApp were all down for several hours on Monday. Facebook provided an update on the cause of the outage late Monday, citing a...

Facebook shoots own foot, hits Instagram and WhatsApp too

Mark Zuckerberg was left counting the personal cost of bad PR yesterday about $6 billion, according to Bloomberg on a day when his company couldnt get out of the news headlines, for all the wrong reasons. The billionaire Facebook CEOs bad day at the office started with whistleblower Frances Hauge...

Facebook Blames Outage on Faulty Router Configuration

As of Monday night, Facebook had crawled back from what may have been its longest blackout ever and apologized for the mass outage that left billions of users locked out of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR for about six hours. \Sincere\ apologies to everyone impacted by...

Facebook Is Down

Facebook -- along with Instagram and WhatsApp -- went down globally today. Basically, someone deleted their BGP records, which made their DNS fall apart. …at approximately 11:39 a.m. ET today 15:39 UTC, someone at Facebook caused an update to be made to the companys Border Gateway Protocol BGP...

Why Facebook, Instagram, and WhatsApp All Went Down Today

The problem relates to something called BGP routing, and it took down every part of Facebook's business...

Facebook Outage Drags Down Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger, Oculus VR

As of Monday afternoon, Facebook had been flat on its face for hours, suffering a simultaneous worldwide outage not only on its main site, but also at its Instagram, WhatsApp, Messenger and Oculus VR subsidiaries. We’re aware that some people are having trouble accessing Facebook app. We’re worki...

Facebook down with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp service disruption

By Waqas Facebook down? Yes, Facebook is down along with Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR due to DNS-related issues. You are not alone; the social media giant Facebook along with its subsidiaries including Messenger, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Oculus VR are down and suffering ongoing...

Samsung SMR buffer error vulnerability

Samsung SMR is a system patch package from Samsung South Korea. It provides patches for Samsung mobile applications. Samsung SMR suffers from a security vulnerability that stems from an OOB read vulnerability in libsaacextractor prior to the September 2021 release of SMR. An attacker can exploit...

CVE-2021-3048 PAN-OS: Invalid URLs in an External Dynamic List (EDL) can Lead to Firewall Outage

Certain invalid URL entries contained in an External Dynamic List EDL cause the Device Server daemon devsrvr to stop responding. This condition causes subsequent commits on the firewall to fail and prevents administrators from performing commits and configuration changes even though the firewall...

PAN-OS: Invalid URLs in an External Dynamic List (EDL) can Lead to Firewall Outage

Certain invalid URL entries contained in an External Dynamic List EDL cause the Device Server daemon devsrvr to stop responding. This condition causes subsequent commits on the firewall to fail and prevents administrators from performing commits and configuration changes even though the firewall...

Akamai's Commitment to Reliability

For more than 20 years, Akamai has worked very hard to earn the trust and confidence of our customers and partners by developing services that can be relied upon to be available and secure at all times. We have scaled our business to handle many trillions of web requests quickly and securely each...

CVE-2021-2438

Vulnerability in the Java VM component of Oracle Database Server. Supported versions that are affected are 12.1.0.2, 12.2.0.1 and 19c. Easily exploitable vulnerability allows low privileged attacker having Create Procedure privilege with network access via Oracle Net to compromise Java VM...

REvil Ransomware Gang Mysteriously Disappears After High-Profile Attacks

REvil, the infamous ransomware cartel behind some of the biggest cyberattacks targeting JBS and Kaseya, has mysteriously disappeared from the dark web, leading to speculations that the criminal enterprise may have been taken down. Multiple darknet and clearnet sites maintained by the Russia-linke...