Recommendations that defenders can use from Talos’ Year in Review Report

The Talos Year in Review is available now and contains a wealth of insights about how the threat landscape has shifted in 2023. With new ransomware strains emerging from leaked source code, commodity loaders adding more reconnaissance measures to their belts, and geopolitical events influencing A...

Android phones can be taken over remotely – update when you can

Android phones are vulnerable to attacks that could allow someone to takeover a device remotely without the device owner needing to do anything. Updates for these vulnerabilities and more are included in Googles Android security bulletin for December. In total, there are patches for 94...

Adobe Coldfusion vulnerability used in attacks on government servers

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA put out a Cybersecurity Advisory CSA to alert government agencies about cybercriminals using a vulnerability in Adobe Coldfusion to gain initial access to servers. Adobe ColdFusion is a platform for building and deploying web and mobile...

QSC23 – Qualys Announces a Directional Shift to Measure, Communicate, and Eliminate Cyber Risk with New Platform and Solutions

The 2023 Qualys Security Conference QSC started wrapping up on Thursday, November 9th, with two days of new technology announcements, impactful customer use cases, and thought-provoking talks from a host of engaging speakers, including Rachel Wilson, Managing Director at Morgan Stanley and Frank...

Patch…later? Safari iLeakage bug not fixed

Apple has released updates for its phones, Macs, iPads, watches, and TV streaming devices, fixing a bunch of security problems. But amid all that activity, one fix is notably absent—there is nothing to address the vulnerability dubbed iLeakage. iLeakage is a side-channel attack that can force the...

Update vCenter Server now! VMWare fixes critical vulnerability

VMWare has issued an update to address one out-of-bounds write and one information disclosure vulnerability in its server management software, vCenter Server. Since there are no in-product workarounds, customers are advised to apply the updates urgently. The affected products are VMware vCenter...

CVE-2022-42451

Certain credentials within the BigFix Patch Management Download Plug-ins are stored insecurely and could be exposed to a local privileged user...

CVE-2022-42451

Certain credentials within the BigFix Patch Management Download Plug-ins are stored insecurely and could be exposed to a local privileged user...

CVE-2022-42451 HCL BigFix Patch Management is vulnerable to insecurely stored credentials

Certain credentials within the BigFix Patch Management Download Plug-ins are stored insecurely and could be exposed to a local privileged user...

CVE-2022-42451 HCL BigFix Patch Management is vulnerable to insecurely stored credentials

Certain credentials within the BigFix Patch Management Download Plug-ins are stored insecurely and could be exposed to a local privileged user...

CVE-2022-42451

CVE-2022-42451 affects HCL BigFix Patch Management, specifically the Download Plug-ins, where certain credentials are stored insecurely. This could allow a local privileged user to access sensitive credentials, consistent with a Local, Low-Complexity exposure (CVSS v3.1: base score ~4.4–4.6, Conf...

CVE-2022-42451: Insufficiently Protected Credentials

Certain credentials within the BigFix Patch Management Download Plug-ins are stored insecurely and could be exposed to a local privileged user...

HCL Technologies BigFix Patch Management Security Vulnerability

HCL Technologies BigFix Patch Management is a comprehensive patch management solution from HCL Technologies, Inc. designed to help organizations effectively manage and deploy security and non-security patches for operating systems and applications. HCL Technologies BigFix Patch Management has a...

PT-2023-14116 · Ibm · Bigfix Patch Management

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: BigFix Patch Management affected versions not specified Description: The issue concerns certain credentials within the BigFix Patch Management Download Plug-ins being stored insecurely. This could potentially expose them to a local privileged...

Curl 8.4.0 – Proactively Identifying Potential Vulnerable Assets

On Wednesday, October 4, 2023, the curl project maintainers announced pre-notification for curl version 8.4.0 to be released on October 11. This version will fix two new vulnerabilities with one high and one low-severity CVE. The prenotification stated that the high-severity issue is arguably the...

NSA and CISA Red and Blue Teams Share Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations

A plea for network defenders and software manufacturers to fix common problems. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The National Security Agency NSA and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA are releasing this joint cybersecurity advisory CSA to highlight the most common cybersecurity...

Update Chrome now! Google patches another actively exploited vulnerability

Google has updated the Stable Channel for Chrome to 117.0.5938.132 for Windows, Mac and Linux. This update includes ten security fixes. According to Google there is an active exploit for one of the patched vulnerabilities, which means cybercriminals are aware of the vulnerability and are using it...

Mitigating Risk with Custom First-Party Software and Application Components: A CISOs’ Guide

What is First-Party Software Anyway? First-party software, unlike off-the-shelf ‘Third-Party’ software, is custom open-source software OSS and applications created by organizations to stitch together existing software to meet custom business needs. Nearly every company today uses some form of...

Acronis Cyber Protect Security Vulnerability

Acronis Cyber Protect is an all-in-one cyber protection solution for business and enterprise from Acronis Singapore. It combines backup, anti-malware, network security and endpoint management features such as vulnerability assessment, URL filtering, patch management and more. A security...

Risk Fact #5: Keeping the Pace of Remediation at Cloud Scale Requires Automation

Qualys Blog Series – 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights by the Threat Research Unit The 2023 TotalCloud Security Insights report from the Qualys Threat Research Unit TRU provides research insights, best practices, and detailed recommendations organized by five separate Risk Facts. The insights wil...