Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2024
Researchers warn of an XSS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-40000, in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress Patchstack researchers warn of an unauthenticated site-wide stored XSS vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-40000, that impacts the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress. The plugin LiteSpeed Cache (free version) is a popular caching plugin in WordPress which has over 4 million active installations. An unauthenticated […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 27, 2024
Taiwanese vendor Zyxel warns of security vulnerabilities in its firewalls and access points, including a remote code execution flaw. Taiwanese networking vendor Zyxel addressed four vulnerabilities, respectively tracked as CVE-2023-6397, CVE-2023-6398, CVE-2023-6399, and CVE-2023-6764, in its firewalls and access points. The flaws can be exploited by threat actors to carry out command injection and denial-of-service attacks and to […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 26, 2024
ThyssenKrupp disclosed a security breach that impacted its automotive division last week, in response to the attack the company shut down IT systems. Steel giant ThyssenKrupp disclosed a security breach that impacted its Automotive division last week. The company shut down IT systems in response to the attack. The news of the attack was reported by the […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 24, 2024
Apple announced the implementation of a post-quantum cryptographic protocol called PQ3 will be integrated into iMessage. Apple announced a new post-quantum cryptographic protocol called PQ3 that will be integrated into the company messaging application iMessage to secure communications against highly sophisticated quantum attacks. Apple said that PQ3 is the first messaging protocol to reach what they call Level 3 […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 23, 2024
Microsoft has released an open-access automation framework, called PyRIT, to proactively identify risks in generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Microsoft has released a Python Risk Identification Tool for generative AI (PyRIT), it is an open-access automation framework to proactively find risks in generative AI systems. The tool aims at helping red teaming activity of AI systems, Microsoft […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2024
US FTC charged cyber security firm Avast with harvesting consumer web browsing data through its browser extension and antivirus and sold it. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has filed charges against cybersecurity firm Avast, accusing it of collecting and selling consumer web browsing data gathered through its browser extension and antivirus services. The antivirus […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 22, 2024
Joomla maintainers have addressed multiple vulnerabilities in the popular content management system (CMS) that can lead to execute arbitrary code. The maintainers of the Joomla! Project released Joomla 5.0.3 and 4.4.3 versions that addressed the following vulnerabilities in the popular content management system (CMS): The impact of these flaws can be widespread because roughly 2% of […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2024
VMware urges customers to uninstall the deprecated Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) after the disclosure of a critical flaw CVE-2024-22245. VMware is urging users to uninstall the deprecated Enhanced Authentication Plugin (EAP) after the discovery of an arbitrary authentication relay flaw CVE-2024-22245Â (CVSS score: 9.6). A threat actor could trick a domain user with EAP installed in […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 21, 2024
Researchers from Shadowserver Foundation identified roughly 28,000 internet-facing Microsoft Exchange servers vulnerable to CVE-2024-21410. The vulnerability CVE-2024-21410 is a bypass vulnerability that can be exploited by an attacker to bypass the SmartScreen user experience and inject code to potentially gain code execution, which could lead to some data exposure, lack of system availability, or both. […]
Pierluigi Paganini
February 20, 2024
ConnectWise addressed two critical vulnerabilities in its ScreenConnect remote desktop access product and urges customers to install the patches asap. ConnectWise warns of the following two critical vulnerabilities in its ScreenConnect remote desktop access product: Both vulnerabilities were reported on February 13, 2024, through the company vulnerability disclosure channel via the ConnectWise Trust Center. The […]
