Stay updated on the latest in information security flaws. Explore news, insights, and analysis on vulnerabilities affecting digital safety.
Search across headline titles and summaries.
Background for this topic.
A flaw is a defect in software, hardware, system design, or configuration that causes unintended behavior. In security reporting, the term usually means a weakness that could violate confidentiality, integrity, or availability when reached through a particular interface, input, privilege, or operating condition. Not every flaw is exploitable, and exploitability depends on factors such as exposure, authentication requirements, affected versions, and available mitigations.
Flaws matter because they can create attack paths in applications, operating systems, devices, APIs, or administrative settings. Security teams assess their severity and exposure, prioritize remediation, apply patches or configuration changes, and use isolation or access controls when immediate fixes are unavailable. Code review, testing, vulnerability scanning, and monitoring can reveal flaws across the development and operational lifecycle. Reports should distinguish a confirmed vulnerability from a theoretical defect and provide enough technical detail to support validation without unnecessarily enabling exploitation.
This isn't the moving-fast-and-breaking-things future we wanted Miscreants exploited a now-fixed design flaw in the Rarible NFT marketplace to steal a non-fungible token from Taiwanese singer and actor Jay Chou and sell it for about $500,000.…
The latest patch is aimed at a type confusion vulnerability that is actively being exploited Google is issuing fixes for two vulnerabilities in its Chrome web browser, including one flaw that is already being exploited in the wild.…
Keksec malware used for DDoS attacks, may spread to cryptomining, Fortinet says A prolific threat group known for deploying distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) and cryptomining attacks is running a new botnet that is built using the Linux-based Gafgyt source code along with some code from the Mirai botnet malware.…
This online session shows you what constant vigilance should look like Webinar Last December’s Log4j crisis brought the danger of zero day vulnerabilities to the front pages. But while one key flaw has been put under the microscope, does that mean the problem is over?…
CVSS 9.8 flaws are not what you want in a hospital robot Mobile robot maker Aethon has fixed a series of vulnerabilities in its Tug hospital robots that, if exploited, could allow a cybercriminal to remotely control thousands of medical machines.…
Trend Micro says vulnerable systems in Singapore have been compromised There has been a land rush of sorts among threat groups trying to use the vulnerability discovered in the open-source Spring Framework last month, and now researchers at Trend Micro are saying it's being actively exploited to execute the Mirai botnet.…