Security

Pierluigi Paganini June 18, 2024
Meta delays training its AI using public content shared by EU users 

Meta announced it is postponing the training of its large language models using public content from adult Facebook and Instagram users in the EU. Meta announced it is delaying the training of its large language models (LLMs) using public content shared by adults on Facebook and Instagram following the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) request. […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 17, 2024
Online job offers, the reshipping and money mule scams

Offers that promise easy earnings can also bring with them a host of scams that deceive those who are genuinely seeking income opportunities. Often, behind these enticing offers are pyramid schemes in which profits are generated through the recruitment of new participants, rather than through actual service, sometimes even causing significant financial losses. Other false […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 16, 2024
ASUS fixed critical remote authentication bypass bug in several routers

Taiwanese manufacturer giant ASUS addressed a critical remote authentication bypass vulnerability impacting several router models. ASUS addresses a critical remote authentication bypass vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-3080 (CVSS v3.1 score: 9.8), impacting seven router models. The flaw is an authentication bypass issue that a remote attacker can exploit to log into the device without authentication. The flaw impacts […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2024
CISA adds Android Pixel, Microsoft Windows, Progress Telerik Report Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Android Pixel, Microsoft Windows, Progress Telerik Report Server bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: CVE-2024-32896 is an elevation of privilege vulnerability in the Pixel Firmware, which has been […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 14, 2024
City of Cleveland still working to fully restore systems impacted by a cyber attack

Early this week, the City of Cleveland suffered a cyber attack that impacted multiple services. The City is working to restore impacted systems. On Monday, the City of Cleveland announced it was the victim of a cyber attack and was forced to take some of its systems offline to contain the threat. The City is […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2024
Google fixed an actively exploited zero-day in the Pixel Firmware

Google is warning of a security vulnerability impacting its Pixel Firmware that has been actively exploited in the wild as a zero-day. Google warned of an elevation of privilege vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-32896, in the Pixel Firmware, which has been exploited in the wild as a zero-day. “There are indications that CVE-2024-32896 may be under limited, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 13, 2024
Multiple flaws in Fortinet FortiOS fixed

Fortinet released security updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in FortiOS, including a high-severity code execution security issue. Fortinet addressed multiple vulnerabilities in FortiOS and other products, including some code execution flaws. The company states that multiple stack-based buffer overflow vulnerabilities in the command line interpreter of FortiOS [CWE-121], collectively tracked as CVE-2024-23110 (CVSS score of […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2024
CISA adds Arm Mali GPU Kernel Driver, PHP bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog

U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) adds Mali GPU Kernel Driver, PHP bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added the following vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog: The vulnerability CVE-2024-4610 is a use-after-free issue issue that impacts Bifrost GPU Kernel Driver (all versions from r34p0 to r40p0) and Valhall […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2024
JetBrains fixed IntelliJ IDE flaw exposing GitHub access tokens

JetBrains warned to fix a critical vulnerability in IntelliJ integrated development environment (IDE) apps that exposes GitHub access tokens. JetBrains warned customers to address a critical vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-37051, that impacts users of its IntelliJ integrated development environment (IDE) apps and exposes GitHub access tokens. The flaw impacts IntelliJ-based IDEs version 2023.1 and later, […]

Pierluigi Paganini June 12, 2024
Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2024 fixed only one critical issue

Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2024 addressed 49 vulnerabilities, only one of them is a publicly disclosed zero-day flaw. Microsoft Patch Tuesday security updates for June 2024 addressed 49 vulnerabilities in Windows and Windows Components; Office and Office Components; Azure; Dynamics Business Central; and Visual Studio. Eight of these bugs were reported through […]