Oracle has issued patches for a serious flaw in Java versions 15 to 18 which allows malicious actors to trivially forge digital signatures and TLS certificates that Java then accepts as valid. The problem lies in the Elliptic Curve Digital Signature Algorithm (ECDSA) which was re-written for Java 15 and this introduced the flaw which […]
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The NCSC has issued updated guidance on the evolving threat from Russian state actors and cyber criminals due to the ongoing war in Ukraine. The joint Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA) from the cybersecurity authorities in the UK, USA, Australia, Canada and New Zealand warns that: “Evolving intelligence indicates that the Russian government is exploring options for
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On 16:10 on Friday 8th April 2022 Russia attempted to repeat their 2016 cyberattack against the Ukrainian power grid – however this time they were foiled. Security firm ESET and the Ukraine Computer Emergency Response Team CERT-UA report how they foiled the attack from the Russian Sandworm APT group which attempted to deploy malware targeting
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Microsoft has released fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities and 143 other flaws in the April 2022 patch Tuesday updates, which includes 10 Critical Remote Code Execution vulnerabilities. Elevation of Privilege Zero Days Microsoft’s definition of a zero day vulnerability is a vulnerability which is either publicly disclosed or actively exploited with no official fix available.
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Wyze has finally released fixes for vulnerabilities which could give attackers direct access to live video feeds and stored recordings in their smart cameras. Researchers at Bitdefender discovered the first of three vulnerabilities back in 2019 and then waited over a year and a half to report on the third as Wyze had not produced
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Spring is a popular enterprise grade application framework for Java, and Spring4Shell is the name given to a remote code execution vulnerability disclosed at the end of March. There has been a lot of hype and confusion in the tech press surrounding this vulnerability, including confusing it with a CVE for Spring Cloud Function which
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Last week over 200 malicious packages were discovered in the npm registry targeting Azure developers with PII stealing malware. Reported by security firm JFrog, the malicious packages were uploaded to npm in a sort of typosquatting attack which targeted packages within the @azure scope. The attack method is simple: the attacker creates a malicious package
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Google has released a patch for a zero day exploit in Google Chrome – the second zero day patched so far this year. Tracked as CVE-2022-1096, this High severity Type Confusion vulnerability was reported on 23rd March and a patch was released just 48 hours later. Google is aware that an exploit exists in the
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Earlier this month, the Vue.js JavaScript framework was subject to a supply chain attack via the npm ecosystem. The node-ipc package was sabotaged by its creator and was pulled into other people’s projects resulting in anti-war messages being displayed to users and, in some cases, data destruction. Node-ipc is a popular module used in the
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HP has issued two security advisories describing remote code execution and denial of service vulnerabilities that affect hundreds of different HP network printers. Remote code execution and buffer overflow Certain HP Print products and Digital Sending products may be vulnerable to potential remote code execution and buffer overflow with use of Link-Local Multicast Name Resolution
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