Security

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2022
Aruba fixes critical vulnerabilities in EdgeConnect Enterprise Orchestrator

Aruba addressed multiple critical severity vulnerabilities in the EdgeConnect Enterprise Orchestrator. Aruba addressed multiple critical severity vulnerabilities in the EdgeConnect Enterprise Orchestrator that can be exploited by remote attackers to compromise the vulnerable host. Aruba EdgeConnect Orchestrator is a centralized SD-WAN management solution that allows enterprises to control their WAN. Below are the vulnerabilities addressed […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2022
Microsoft Patch Tuesday for October 2022 doesn’t fix Exchange Server flaws

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for October 2022 addressed a total of 85 security vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited zero-day. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for October 2022 addressed 85 new vulnerabilities in multiple products, including Microsoft Windows and Windows Components; Azure, Azure Arc, and Azure DevOps; Microsoft Edge (Chromium-based); Office and Office Components; Visual Studio […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 12, 2022
VMware has yet to fix CVE-2021-22048 flaw in vCenter Server disclosed one year ago

VMware has yet to address the CVE-2021-22048 privilege escalation vulnerability in vCenter Server disclosed in November 2021. VMware warns customers that it has yet to address a high-severity privilege escalation vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2021-22048, in the vCenter Server. The flaw was disclosed in November 2021, it resides in the vCenter Server ‘s IWA (Integrated Windows […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2022
DeepFakes Are The Cybercriminal Economy’s Latest Business Line

California-based Resecurity has identified a new spike of underground services enabling bad actors to generate deepfakes. According to cybersecurity experts, this may be used for political propaganda, foreign influence activity, disinformation, scams, and fraud.  Introduced by Canadian researchers to the public in 2014, Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs), typically imitate people’s faces, speech, and unique facial […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 11, 2022
Toyota discloses accidental leak of some customers’ personal information

Toyota Motor Corporation discloses data leak, customers’ personal information may have been exposed after an access key was exposed on GitHub. Toyota Motor Corporation warns customers that their personal information may have been accidentally exposed after an access key was publicly available on GitHub for almost five years. The carmaker discovered recently that a portion […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2022
Everest gang demands $200K for data stolen from South Africa state-owned electricity company ESKOM

Everest ransomware operators claimed to have hacked South Africa state-owned company ESKOM Hld SOC Ltd. In March 2022, the Everest ransomware operators published a notice announcing the sale of “South Africa Electricity company’s root access” for $125,000. Eskom transforms inputs from the natural environment – coal, nuclear, fuel, diesel, water, and wind – into more […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 09, 2022
Lloyd’s of London investigates alleged cyber attack

Lloyd’s of London launched on Wednesday an investigating into a possible cyber attack after having detected unusual activity on its network. Lloyd’s of London is investigating a cyberattack after detecting unusual network activity this week. In response to the alleged intrusion it has reset the IT infrastructure and shut down any external connection. “Lloyd’s has […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2022
VMware fixed a high-severity bug in vCenter Server

VMware this week addressed a severe vulnerability in vCenter Server that could lead to arbitrary code execution. VMware on Thursday released security patches to address a code execution vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-31680 (CVSS score of 7.2), in vCenter Server. The security issue is an unsafe deserialization vulnerability that resides in the platform services controller (PSC). […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 07, 2022
Fortinet urges customers to immediately fix a critical authentication bypass flaw in FortiGate and FortiProxy

Fortinet addressed a critical authentication bypass vulnerability that impacted FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. Fortinet addressed a critical authentication bypass flaw, tracked as CVE-2022-40684, that impacted FortiGate firewalls and FortiProxy web proxies. An attacker can exploit the vulnerability to log into vulnerable devices. “An authentication bypass using an alternate path or channel [CWE-88] in […]

Pierluigi Paganini October 06, 2022
Watch out, a bug in Linux Kernel 5.19.12 can damage displays on Intel laptops

A bug in Linux Kernel 5.19.12 that was released at the end of September 2022 can potentially damage the displays of Intel laptops. Linux users reported the displays of their Intel laptops rapidly blinking, flickering, and showing white flashes after upgrading to Linux kernel version 5.19.12. Linux expert Ville Syrjäl pointed out that the anomalous […]