Why you should practice rollbacks to prevent data loss in a ransomware attack

The security community is continuously changing, growing, and learning from each other to better position the world against cyberthreats. In the latest post of our Community Voices blog series, Microsoft Security Senior Product Marketing Manager Brooke Lynn Weenig talks with Tanya Janca, Founder...

Payment giant's point-of-sale outage caused by ALPHV ransomware

On April 12, 2023, payment giant NCR reported it was looking into an issue with its point-of-sale POS systems that caused an outage, leaving customers unable to use the system. The NCR Aloha POS systems are popular in hospitality services. Customers include Wendys, Chuck e Cheese, Cafe Rio, Leean...

Kodi Confirms Data Breach: 400K User Records and Private Messages Stolen

Open source media player software provider Kodi has confirmed a data breach after threat actors stole the company's MyBB forum database containing user data and private messages. What's more, the unknown threat actors attempted to sell the data dump comprising 400,635 Kodi users on the now-defunc...

3 tips for creating backups your organization can rely on when ransomware strikes

Backups are an organization's last line of defense against ransomware, because comprehensive, offline, offsite backups give you a chance to restore or rebuild your computers without paying a criminal for a decryption key. Unfortunately, many organizations don't realize how important it is to make...

3 tips to raise your backup game

If there was an award for "most overlooked really important thing in computing", backups would win. Every year. So let's put that right and spend a minute or two thinking about backups. Backups are great! Having backups is like having a do-over for your mistakes, and who hasn't wished for that? A...

CVE-2023-28630

GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server. In GoCD versions from 20.5.0 and below 23.1.0, if the server environment is not correctly configured by administrators to provide access to the relevant PostgreSQL or MySQL backup tools, the credentials for database access may be unintentionally...

Design/Logic Flaw

GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server. In GoCD versions from 20.5.0 and below 23.1.0, if the server environment is not correctly configured by administrators to provide access to the relevant PostgreSQL or MySQL backup tools, the credentials for database access may be unintentionally...

CVE-2023-28630 Sensitive information disclosure possible on misconfigured failed backups of non-H2 databases in gocd

GoCD is an open source continuous delivery server. In GoCD versions from 20.5.0 and below 23.1.0, if the server environment is not correctly configured by administrators to provide access to the relevant PostgreSQL or MySQL backup tools, the credentials for database access may be unintentionally...

PT-2023-21862 · H2 +2 · H2 +3

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: GoCD versions 20.5.0 through 23.1.0 Description: The issue arises when the server environment is not correctly configured to provide access to the relevant PostgreSQL or MySQL backup tools, potentially leaking database access credentials to...

D-Link DNR-322L <=2.60B15 - Authenticated Remote Code Execution Exploit

Exploit Title: D-Link DNR-322L Exploit Writeup: https://lukasec.ch/posts/dlinkdnr322.html Vendor Homepage: https://dlink.com Vendor Advisory: https://supportannouncement.us.dlink.com/announcement/publication.aspx?name=SAP10305 Software Link: http://legacyfiles.us.dlink.com/DNR-322L/REVA/FIRMWARE...

Fedora: Security Advisory for tar (FEDORA-2023-f72d3caf36)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

USN-5966-2: amanda regression

USN-5966-1 fixed vulnerabilities in amanda. Unfortunately it introduced a regression in GNUTAR-based backups. This update reverts all of the changes in amanda until a better fix is provided. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Maher Azzouzi discovered an information...

USN-5966-2 amanda regression

USN-5966-1 fixed vulnerabilities in amanda. Unfortunately it introduced a regression in GNUTAR-based backups. This update reverts all of the changes in amanda until a better fix is provided. We apologize for the inconvenience. Original advisory details: Maher Azzouzi discovered an information...

[SECURITY] Fedora 37 Update: tar-1.34-6.fc37

The GNU tar program saves many files together in one archive and can restore individual files or all of the files from that archive. Tar can also be used to add supplemental files to an archive and to update or list files in the archive. Tar includes multivolume support, automatic archive...

Fedora: Security Advisory for tar (FEDORA-2023-123778d70d)

The remote host is missing an update for the SPDX-FileCopyrightText: 2023 Greenbone AG 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-only ifdescription...

PT-2023-21565 · Discourse · Discourse

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Discourse versions prior to 3.0.2 of the stable branch Discourse versions prior to 3.1.0.beta3 of the beta and tests-passed branches Description: The issue allows an administrator to request backups multiple times, consuming all database...

Ransomware attack hits ANOTHER school

In what is likely Vice Society's handiwork, the UK's largest state boarding school Wymondham College has announced it has become the victim of a "sophisticated cyberattack". The school didn't provide additional information, but Jonathan Taylor, chief of the school's parent company Sapientia...

Breast cancer photos published by ransomware gang

The Russia-linked ALPHV ransomware group, also known as BlackCat, has posted sensitive clinical photos of breast cancer patients--calling them "nude photos"--to extort money from the Lehigh Valley Health Network LVHN. This has triggered a chorus of accusations from the cybersecurity community, wi...

CVE-2023-23327

An Information Disclosure vulnerability exists in AvantFAX 3.3.7. Backups of the AvantFAX sent/received faxes, and database backups are stored using the current date as the filename and hosted on the web server without access controls...

Information disclosure

An Information Disclosure vulnerability exists in AvantFAX 3.3.7. Backups of the AvantFAX sent/received faxes, and database backups are stored using the current date as the filename and hosted on the web server without access controls...