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Disclosure in information security means sharing details about vulnerabilities, breaches, or security incidents. This can be done privately with affected parties, coordinated to allow fixes before public release, or fully public, sometimes before patches exist. The method chosen affects how quickly risks are mitigated and how much attackers might exploit the information.
Proper disclosure helps organizations prioritize patching and reduces the window attackers have to exploit flaws. Poorly timed or incomplete disclosure can expose systems to increased risk, while transparent, coordinated disclosure supports effective vulnerability management and trust between researchers and defenders. Understanding disclosure practices is essential for assessing the urgency and reliability of security news.
The decentralized social network Mastodon has disclosed a critical security flaw that enables malicious actors to impersonate and take over any account
Remote desktop software maker AnyDesk disclosed on Friday that it suffered a cyber attack that led to a compromise of its production systems
Danger of remote account takeovers leaves lead devs scared of releasing many details Mastodon has called admins to action following the disclosure of a critical vulnerability affecting the decentralized social network favored by erstwhile Twitter lovers.…
Cloudflare disclosed today that its internal Atlassian server was breached by a 'nation state' attacker who accessed its Confluence wiki, Jira bug database, and Atlassian Bitbucket source code management system. [...]
The Identity Provider Experienced a String of Embarrassing Cybersecurity IncidentsOkta announced layoffs amounting to 7% of its workforce in a restructuring that will cost 400 employees their jobs. Thursday's disclosure is the second round of layoffs the company has undergone in the past 12 months. CEO Todd McKinnon said the cuts are needed to run Okta with "greater efficiency."
The U.S. government on Wednesday said it took steps to neutralize a botnet comprising hundreds of U.S.-based small office and home office (SOHO) routers hijacked by a China-linked state-sponsored threat actor called Volt Typhoon and blunt the impact posed by the hacking campaign
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of the malware HeadCrab that's known to target Redis database servers across the world since early September 2021
Company Starts Patch Rollout for Flaws Exploited by Likely Chinese Intelligence OpCorporate VPN maker Ivanti on Wednesday began a belated patch rollout for zero-day flaws that many cybersecurity firms say paved the way for an espionage hacking operation likely conducted by China. Ivanti also disclosed two more zero-days and told customers that hackers are exploiting one of them.
Multiple security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in the runC command line tool that could be exploited by threat actors to escape the bounds of the container and stage follow-on attacks
The SEC isn’t giving SaaS a free pass. Applicable public companies, known as “registrants,” are now subject to cyber incident disclosure and cybersecurity readiness requirements for data stored in SaaS systems, along with the 3rd and 4th party apps connected to them. The new cybersecurity mandates make no distinction between data exposed in a breach that was stored on-premise, in the
A pair of recently disclosed zero-day flaws in Ivanti Connect Secure (ICS) virtual private network (VPN) devices have been exploited to deliver a Rust-based payload called KrustyLoader that's used to drop the open-source Sliver adversary simulation tool
Malicious local attackers can obtain full root access on Linux machines by taking advantage of a newly disclosed security flaw in the GNU C library (aka glibc)
Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc). [...]
Multiple publicly available exploits have since been published for the critical flaw The number of public-facing installs of Jenkins servers vulnerable to a recently disclosed critical vulnerability is in the tens of thousands.…
Vendor gets tangled in its own web of undisclosed vulnerabilities Juniper Networks has disclosed separate vulnerabilities it was previously accused of concealing, and apologized to customers for the error in communication.…
Calls Securities and Exchange Commission's Cybersecurity Allegations 'Unfounded'Network monitoring software vendor SolarWinds moved to dismiss a federal lawsuit accusing the company and its CISO of securities fraud after they allegedly misstated the efficacy of its cybersecurity controls. Russian intelligence hacked the company in an incident disclosed in 2020.