Palo Alto Networks Releases Critical Security Advisory for PAN-OS

Palo Alto Networks has issued a critical severity security advisory for an authentication bypass vulnerability, known as CVE-2024-0012, affecting the PAN-OS management web interface. CVE-2024-0012 has a CVSSv4 score of 9.3 when access is allowed to the management interface from Read More …

Palo Alto Releases Critical Security Bulletin for Firewall Devices

Palo Alto has issued a critical severity security bulletin for an unauthenticated remote command execution vulnerability affecting the management interface for firewall devices. The vulnerability is still under investigation by Palo Alto but has not yet received a CVE designation. Read More …

Fortinet Releases Multiple Security Advisories

Fortinet has released 18 security advisories to address a range of security vulnerabilities in multiple products. Three of the advisories address two high severity vulnerabilities in FortiClient for Windows and one high severity vulnerability in FortiOS affecting SSLVPN sessions. FortiClient Read More …

Exploited Vulnerability in Multiple Fortinet Products

Fortinet has released a security advisory to address a critical vulnerability in the FortiOS fgfmd daemon. CVE-2024-23113 is a ‘use of externally-controlled format string’ vulnerability with a CVSSv3 score of 9.8. A remote unauthenticated attacker could send specially crafted requests Read More …

Kaspersky defends force-replacing its security software without users’ explicit consent

Earlier this week, some U.S. customers of Kaspersky’s antivirus were surprised to find out that the Russian-made software disappeared from their computers and had been replaced by a new antivirus called UltraAV, owned by American company Pango. The move was Read More …

Fortinet confirms data breach after allegedly refusing to pay ransom

In an announcement posted on Fortinet’s website, the company said that someone gained access to a “limited number of files” stored on its instance of an unnamed third-party cloud-based shared file drive. The files included “limited data related to a Read More …

Missing tycoon’s co-defendant fatally struck by car

The co-defendant of British tech tycoon Mike Lynch – who is currently missing in Italy – has died after being hit by a car. Stephen Chamberlain, 52, was Mr Lynch’s co-defendant in his US fraud trial in which both men Read More …

Security company ADT announces security breach of customer data

Electronic surveillance equipment provider ADT filed a form 8-K with the Security and Exchange Commision (SEC) to report “a cybersecurity incident during which unauthorized actors illegally accessed certain databases containing ADT customer order information.” ADT filed the 8-K on August Read More …

CrowdStrike is sued by shareholders over huge software outage

CrowdStrike has been sued by shareholders who said the cybersecurity company defrauded them by concealing how its inadequate software testing could cause the July 19 global outage that crashed more than 8 million computers. In a proposed class action filed Read More …