Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds iCagenda and Balbooa Forms flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added iCagenda and Balbooa Forms flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog. The flaws added to the catalog are: iCagenda is an open-source event management extension for Joomla. […]

Acting director Nick Andersen’s comments came as a wave of malware attacks hit tech that’s publicly available for collaboration. The post CISA chief frets about open-source vulnerabilities, delayed security improvements appeared first on CyberScoop.

Researcher: If Exploited, Bug Could Crash Hospital Medical Imaging SystemsThe Cybersecurity Infrastructure and Security Agency is warning of a high severity in Grassroots DICOM, an open-source library commonly used for medical imaging products, that if exploited could allow an attacker to send a specially crafted file resulting in a denial-of-service situation.

A disconnect exists between an organization's cybersecurity needs and lists like CISA's KEV Catalog. KEV Collider combines data from multiple open source vulnerability frameworks to help security teams quickly assess which are important, based on their priorities.

Thorium enhances cybersecurity teams' defense capabilities by seamlessly integrating commercial, open-source, and custom tools used to analyze malware.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) today announced the public availability of Thorium, an open-source platform for malware and forensic analysts across the government, public, and private sectors. [...]

A recently disclosed critical security flaw impacting the open-source Langflow platform has been added to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog by the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), citing evidence of active exploitation

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Tuesday added a critical security flaw affecting the Apache OFBiz open-source enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation in the wild

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Monday added a critical security flaw impacting OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation

Despite more than 50% of all open source code being written in memory-unsafe languages like C++, we are unlikely to see a massive overhaul to code bases anytime soon.

A CISA analysis in collaboration with international partners concluded most critical open source projects potentially contain memory safety vulnerabilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published research looking into 172 key open-source projects and whether they are susceptible to memory flaws. [...]

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Thursday added a security flaw impacting Apache Flink, an open-source, unified stream-processing and batch-processing framework, to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation

Attackers Are Targeting the Widely Used Mirth Connect Data Integration PlatformCyberattackers are actively exploiting a vulnerability in the NextGen Healthcare Mirth Connect product, an open-source data integration platform widely used by healthcare companies, said CISA in an alert Monday. The flaw, which allows remote code execution, has been known since October 2023.

CISA and OpenSSF jointly published new guidance recommending technical controls to make it harder for developers to bring in malicious software components into code.

CISA and OpenSSF jointly published new guidance recommending technical controls to make it harder for developers to bring in malicious software components into code.

CISA announces more help, and calls on app makers to step up The US government and some of the largest open source foundations and package repositories have announced a series of initiatives intended to improve software supply-chain security, while also repeating calls for developers to increase support for such efforts.…

US Cyber Agency Aiming to Promote Information Sharing with Open Source CommunityThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency hopes to expand voluntary information sharing between the federal government and open-source software operators with a series of actions the agency announced following a two-day open-source security summit held at its Virginia headquarters.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) announced that it's partnering with the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) Securing Software Repositories Working Group to publish a new framework to secure package repositories

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added six security flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, citing evidence of active exploitation