CISA Adds Seven Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog

CISA has added seven new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities KEV Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. CVE-2008-4250link is external Microsoft Windows Buffer Overflow Vulnerability CVE-2009-1537link is external Microsoft DirectX NULL Byte Overwrite Vulnerability...

S3C2 Summit 2024-09: Industry Secure Software Supply Chain Summit

While providing economic and software development value, software supply chains are only as strong as their weakest link. Over the past several years, there has been an exponential increase in cyberattacks, specifically targeting vulnerable links in critical software supply chains. These attacks...

FlexiContracts: a Novel and Efficient Scheme for Upgrading Smart Contracts in Ethereum Blockchain

Blockchain technology has revolutionized contractual processes, enhancing efficiency and trust through smart contracts. Ethereum, as a pioneer in this domain, offers a platform for decentralized applications but is challenged by the immutability of smart contracts, which makes upgrades cumbersome...

Spoofing

In the Linux kernel, the following vulnerability has been resolved: ARM: 9063/1: mm: reduce maximum number of CPUs if DEBUGKMAPLOCAL is enabled The debugging code for kmaplocal doubles the number of per-CPU fixmap slots allocated for kmaplocal, in order to use half of them as guard regions. This...

New security features in Windows 11 protect users and empower IT

While attacks are getting more sophisticated, so are our defenses. With recent innovations like secured-core PCs that are 60 percent more resilient to malware than non-secured-core PCs,1 and the Microsoft Pluton Security Processor that adds more protection by isolating sensitive data like...

Startup Security Tactics: Friction Surveys

When we do quarterly planning, my team categorizes our goals within four evergreen outcomes: 1. Reduce the risk of information security incidents 2. Increase trust in Vanta's information security program 3. Reduce the friction caused by information security controls 4. Use security expertise to...

Guide: Alert Overload and Handling for Lean IT Security Teams

Alarming research reveals the stress and strains the average cybersecurity team experiences on a daily basis. As many as 70% of teams report feeling emotionally overwhelmed by security alerts. Those alerts come at such high volume, high velocity, and high intensity that they become an extreme...

How to Get Started With Application Security

With a comprehensive security stack, Akamai’s application security solutions defend your entire ecosystem from threats. But before you can reap the benefits that come with application security, you need to create a configuration with Akamai’s APIs. Our Developer Advocacy team is here to walk you...

Smart Cars: Increasing Comfort — Reducing Security

By Uzair Amir Owners of advanced cars are always the target for cybercriminals... This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Smart Cars: Increasing Comfort — Reducing Security...

Insights and Tips on Video Compression using VLC

By Owais Sultan Video compression is a technique of converting a video into a smaller sized file compared to the original video by erasing repetitive and non-functional content of the source video file. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Insights and Tips on Video Compressio...

CVE-2018-13210

The sell function of a smart contract implementation for Providence Crypto Casino PVE Contract Name: ProvidenceCasinoToken, an Ethereum token, has an integer overflow in which "amount sellPrice" can be zero, consequently reducing a seller's assets...

Hacking United States politics and why India and China won the election

Paul F Renda going to begin a series on hacking the politics in the united states and why India and china won the past Presidential election. This eclectic hacker look will use partial differential equations, game theory, the prisoner's dilemma, and fractals. I am going to show unequivalently tha...

Design/Logic Flaw

Revelation 0.4.13-2 and earlier uses only the first 32 characters of a password followed by a sequence of zeros, which reduces the entropy and makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to crack passwords and obtain access to keys via a brute-force attack...