libxml2 security update

An update is available for libxml2. This update affects Rocky Linux 8. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability from the CVE list The libxml2 library is a development toolbox providing the implementation of...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: dotnet5.0-5.0.203-1.fc34

.NET is a fast, lightweight and modular platform for creating cross platform applications that work on Linux, macOS and Windows. It particularly focuses on creating console applications, web applications and micro-services. .NET contains a runtime conforming to .NET Standards a set of framework...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: firefox-88.0.1-1.fc33

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

New US Executive Order on Cybersecurity

President Biden signed an executive order to improve government cybersecurity, setting new security standards for software sold to the federal government. For the first time, the United States will require all software purchased by the federal government to meet, within six months, a series of ne...

Pipeline Update: Biden Executive Order, DarkSide Detailed and Gas Bags

Colonial Pipeline Co. may have turned off the tap following Friday’s ransomware attack, but the news about the devastating assault keeps gushing. In the wake of the DarkSide cyberattack, President Biden signed an executive order Wednesday aimed at bolstering the federal government’s cyber defense...

Fedora: Security Advisory for firefox (FEDORA-2021-0d26f8a9f3)

The remote host is missing an update for the Copyright C 2021 Greenbone Networks GmbH Some text descriptions might be excerpted from a referenced sources, and are Copyright C by the respective right holders. SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later This program is free software; you can...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: firefox-88.0.1-1.fc34

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Colonial Pipeline attack expected to trigger imminent hardening of cybersecurity rules for federal agencies

UPDATE 04:23 pm Pacific Time, May 12: On Wednesday, President Joe Biden signed an Executive Order that broadly directs the Commerce Department to create cybersecurity standards for companies that sell software to the federal government. The Order comes in the immediate aftermath of a ransomware...

U.S. Intelligence Agencies Warn About 5G Network Weaknesses

Inadequate implementation of telecom standards, supply chain threats, and weaknesses in systems architecture could pose major cybersecurity risks to 5G networks, potentially making them a lucrative target for cybercriminals and nation-state adversaries to exploit for valuable intelligence. The...

Performance-testing the Google I/O site

I've been looking at the performance of F1 websites recently, but before I dig into the last couple of teams, I figured I'd look a little closer to home, and dig into the Google I/O website. 1. Part 1: Methodology & Alpha Tauri 2. Part 2: Alfa Romeo 3. Part 3: Red Bull 4. Part 4: Williams 5. Part...

Object injection via local phar file

This is a security release. SECURITY Fixes CVE-2020-36326, a regression of CVE-2018-19296 object injection introduced in 6.1.8, see SECURITY.md for details Reject more file paths that look like URLs, matching RFC3986 spec, blocking URLS using schemes such as ssh2 Ensure method signature consisten...

Meet critical infrastructure security compliance requirements with Microsoft 365

Critical infrastructure operators face a hostile cyber threat environment and a complex compliance landscape. Every operator of an industrial control system also operates an IT network to service its productivity needs. A supervisory control and data acquisition SCADA system operator of a power...

Shanghai CFE Network Technology Co., Ltd. fire protection level platform has logic flaws vulnerability

Ltd., formerly known as: Shanghai Zhongguo Network Technology Co., Ltd. is committed to building fire safety industry standards, fire safety product industry standards, intelligent fire Internet of Things standards, as well as for the government, the group, enterprises to provide "Internet +"...

Important: Red Hat Security Advisory: firefox security update

An update for firefox is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1 Extended Update Support. Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System CVSS base score, which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for...

[SECURITY] Fedora 32 Update: firefox-88.0-4.fc32

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

[SECURITY] Fedora 34 Update: firefox-88.0-1.fc34

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

Cost of Account Unlocks, and Password Resets Add Up

There are many labor-intensive tasks that the IT service desk carries out on a daily basis. None as tedious and costly as resetting passwords. Modern IT service desks spend a significant amount of time both unlocking and resetting passwords for end-users. This issue has been exacerbated by the...

[SECURITY] Fedora 33 Update: firefox-88.0-1.fc33

Mozilla Firefox is an open-source web browser, designed for standards compliance, performance and portability...

GEICO Alerts Customers Hackers Stole Driver License Data for Two Months

Threat actors stole driver license numbers from customers of GEICO insurance for nearly two months earlier this year due to a security flaw on its website that has since been fixed. The second-largest auto insurance provider in the United States disclosed the vulnerability in a data breach notice...

NIST and HIPAA: Is There a Password Connection?

When dealing with user data, it's essential that we design our password policies around compliance. These policies are defined both internally and externally. While companies uphold their own password standards, outside forces like HIPAA and NIST have a heavy influence. Impacts are defined by...