Vulnerabilities are flaws attackers can exploit to access systems or data; timely patching, isolation, and least privilege reduce the impact.
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A vulnerability is a weakness in a system’s design, code, configuration, or operating process that could allow an attacker to violate a security requirement. It may affect software, hardware, networks, cloud services, or exposed interfaces, and is not automatically exploitable: practical risk depends on factors such as exposure, required privileges, available attack paths, and existing controls. Outcomes can include unauthorized access, information disclosure, code execution, or disruption of service.
Effective vulnerability management combines accurate asset inventory with code review, security testing, scanning, and trusted vulnerability intelligence. Organizations should prioritize weaknesses affecting reachable, business-critical systems—especially when exploitation is known or requires little access—then patch or otherwise mitigate them and verify the fix. Where patching is delayed, controls such as disabling an exposed feature, restricting network access, or strengthening authentication can reduce the attack surface. Records should preserve affected versions, risk decisions, remediation owners, and validation results.
A newly observed phishing campaign is leveraging the recently disclosed Follina security vulnerability to distribute a previously undocumented backdoor on Windows systems
A two-pronged approach that combines agent and agentless tools may offer the best protection Webinar Agents sit on devices to perform security scanning and reporting, system restarts/reboots, software patching, configuration and general system monitoring. Agentless security tools do much the same, just without the agents, making them a better bet for security vulnerability scanning on remote machines where its harder to install an agent – like the cloud.…
Security researchers are warning that hackers can abuse online programming learning platforms to remotely launch cyberattacks, steal data, and scan for vulnerable devices, simply by using a web browser. [...]
A radio control system for drones is vulnerable to remote takeover, thanks to a weakness in the mechanism that binds transmitter and receiver.
We investigate cloud-based cryptocurrency miners that leverage GitHub Actions and Azure virtual machines, including the cloud infrastructure and vulnerabilities that malicious actors exploit for easy monetary gain.
A security advisory for a vulnerability (CVE) published by MITRE has accidentally been exposing links to remote admin consoles of over a dozen vulnerable IP devices since at least April 2022. [...]
Rapid fix for vulnerability being exploited in the wild
In part two of our series, we’ll highlight both known and new DDS vulnerabilities and what they mean for mission critical operations.
DoD puts money behind bug bounty program after reward-free pilot The US Department of Defense has created a broad but short bug bounty program for vulnerabilities in public-facing systems and applications.…
As a result of browser market consolidation, adversaries can focus on uncovering vulnerabilities in just two main browser engines.
Microsoft has confirmed it fixed a previously disclosed 'ShadowCoerce' vulnerability as part of the June 2022 updates that enabled attackers to target Windows servers in NTLM relay attacks. [...]
Investigation found hundreds of vulnerabilities on UK public service websites
Google on Monday shipped security updates to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability in its Chrome web browser that it said is being exploited in the wild
Google has released Chrome 103.0.5060.114 for Windows users to address a high-severity zero-day vulnerability exploited by attackers in the wild, the fourth Chrome zero-day patched in 2022. [...]
Django, an open source Python-based web framework has patched a high severity vulnerability in its latest releases. Tracked as CVE-2022-34265, the potential SQL Injection vulnerability impacts Django's main branch, and versions 4.1 (currently in beta), 4.0, and 3.2, with patches and new releases issued fixing the vulnerability. [...]
Former employee re-submitted vulnerability data for personal gain
Vulnerability coordination and bug bounty platform HackerOne on Friday disclosed that a former employee at the firm improperly accessed security reports submitted to it for personal gain