The American CISA has warned they have detected ongoing attacks against several organisations cloud services. The alert from CISA states that: The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is aware of several recent successful cyberattacks against various organizations’ cloud services. Threat actors are using phishing and other vectors to exploit poor cyber hygiene practices withinRead more
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Microsoft starts the year with their first patch Tuesday bundle of security fixes targeting 10 Critical vulnerabilities include a zero-day being exploited in Windows Defender. The Windows Defender vulnerability (CVE-2021-1647) is reported by Microsoft as having been detected under active exploitation in the wild – but precious little context information is provided under the firm’sRead more
Three years after the initial warning, Adobe has officially killed off Flash software. In recent years Flash had developed a reputation for being a security risk on many systems due the high number of vulnerabilities discovered and exploited in the software. Now the software reached end-of-life on 31 December 2020 and Adobe will no longerRead more
A recent court case underlines the importance of good operational security procedures to manage employee and contractor exits to ensure all their access is revoked. A man has been sentenced to two years after deleting 456 virtual machines from Cisco’s infrastructure – 4 months after resigning from the firm. As a result of the maliciousRead more
File Integrity Monitoring systems generate alerts when intruders make unexpected changes to the files on your servers – either by changing existing files or creating new ones. Robust cybersecurity can be most effectively achieved by adopting a ‘defence in depth’ approach. This means deploying several layers of protection, using different technologies so that the overlappingRead more
According to a new report, 68% of organisations that suffered a network breach are the victim of a repeat attack within a year. Cyber-criminals assume that organisation will not learn a lesson from the first attack and return in the hope of easy pickings the second time around. The report from cybersecurity response firm CrowdstrikeRead more
SAD DNS is a protocol level vulnerability in the DNS system. Microsoft has published a new security advisory which offers a mitigation to protect your DNS systems from spoofing or poisoning. If an attacker is able to successfully exploit the SAD DNS vulnerability (CVE-2020-25705), it will be possible to spoof a DNS packet which isRead more
Oracle patched a vulnerability in their WebLogic server in October 2020 – eight days later working exploit code was published online and now it is being used by criminals. CVE-2020-14882 allows an attacker to perform a Remote Code Execution attack with minimal effort or skill required. Juniper Networks security researchers reports at least five differentRead more
VMWare has issued a security advisory warning of a command injection vulnerability that could allow someone with access to the VMWare Configurator admin account to issue command with unrestricted privileges on the underlying operating system. The vulnerability (CVE-2020-4006) affects VMWare Workspace One Access, Access Connector, Identity Manage and Identify Manager Connector administrative configurator. A maliciousRead more
The UK National Cyber Security Centre has issued an alert warning that multiple actors are attempting to exploit a MobileIron vulnerability to compromise the networks of UK organisations. MobileIron issued a security patch in June 2020 for their Mobile Device Management system to resolve several vulnerabilities in their software. Included was a critical remote codeRead more
