The US Department of Defense (DoD) has launched a website to accompany its Hack the Pentagon (HtP) program. The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) Directorate for Digital Services (DDS), Craig Martell, unveiled the website last Thursday. It will be a resource for DoD organizations, vendors and security researchers to understand how to conduct a
Month: April 2023
by Paul Ducklin Cybersecurity researchers in Belgium and the US recently published a paper scheduled for presentation later this year at the USENIX 2023 conference. The three co-authors couldn’t resist a punning title, dubbing their attack Framing Frames, with a slightly easier-to-follow strapline that says Bypassing Wi-Fi encryption by manipulating transmit queues. As security researchers
Apr 03, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Data Security Data storage devices maker Western Digital on Monday disclosed a “network security incident” that involved unauthorized access to its systems. The breach is said to have occurred on March 26, 2023, enabling an unnamed third party to gain access to a “number of the company’s systems.” Following
A new vulnerability has been discovered in Microsoft’s Azure Service Fabric Explorer (SFX) that would enable unauthenticated, remote threat actors to execute code on a container hosted on a Service Fabric node. Dubbed Super FabriXss by the Orca Security team, the cross-site scripting (XSS) flaw (CVE-2023-23383) has a CVSS score of 8.2 and affects SFX version 9.1.1436.9590 or
by Paul Ducklin Gordon Moore, co-founder of Intel, has died at 94. Academically, Moore was both a chemist and physicist, earning a Bachelor’s degree in chemistry from the University of California at Berkeley in 1950, and a Doctorate in physical chemistry and physics from the California Institute of Technology in 1954. After a brief interlude
ESET experts share their insights on the cyber-elements of the first year of the war in Ukraine and how a growing number of destructive malware variants tried to rip through critical Ukrainian systems With the Russian invasion on February 24th, 2022, the age of wipers seems to have arrived as a growing number of destructive
Apr 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Vulnerability Critical security flaws in Cacti, Realtek, and IBM Aspera Faspex are being exploited by various threat actors in hacks targeting unpatched systems. This entails the abuse of CVE-2022-46169 (CVSS score: 9.8) and CVE-2021-35394 (CVSS score: 9.8) to deliver MooBot and ShellBot (aka PerlBot), Fortinet FortiGuard Labs said in
A new malware toolset has been discovered and analyzed by security experts at SentinelOne. Dubbed “AlienFox” by the team, the toolkit can harvest credentials for multiple cloud service providers. An advisory published on Thursday by SentinelOne threat researcher Alex Delamotte shows that attackers used AlienFox to successfully harvest API keys and secrets from various services, including
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Today is World Backup Day, but maybe we also need a “did you test your backups” day? When did you last attempt to restore your data? Today is World Backup Day, but maybe we also need a “did you test your backups” day? Why is that? Because many people and organizations that do create backups
Apr 01, 2023Ravie LakshmananAzure / Active Directory Microsoft has patched a misconfiguration issue impacting the Azure Active Directory (AAD) identity and access management service that exposed several “high-impact” applications to unauthorized access. “One of these apps is a content management system (CMS) that powers Bing.com and allowed us to not only modify search results, but