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Cloudflare, an American company focused on web infrastructure and website security, has announced the launch of a new public bug bounty program. “Today we are launching Cloudflare’s paid public bug bounty program,” said Rushil Shah, a Product Security Engineer at Read More …
Samba has fixed a vulnerability in all versions of its software prior to version 4.13.17 that allowed for a remote actor to execute code as root, thanks to an out-of-bounds heap read write vulnerability. “The specific flaw exists within the Read More …
The US Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has added eight more flaws to its catalog of exploited vulnerabilities that are known to be used in attacks, and they’re a mix of old and new. The goal of publishing these Read More …
A researcher who showed Apple how its webcams can be hijacked via a universal cross-site scripting bug (UXSS) Safari bug has been awarded what is reportedly a record $100,500 bug bounty. The bug could be used by an adversary as Read More …
Taiwanese network-attached storage giant QNAP urged its customers to update their systems this week after the DeadBolt ransomware was discovered targeting all NAS instances exposed to the internet. “QNAP urges all QNAP NAS users to follow the security setting instructions Read More …
Cisco Talos recently discovered an out-of-bounds read vulnerability in Apple’s macOS and iOS operating systems that could lead to the disclosure of sensitive memory content. An attacker could capitalize on that information to aid in the exploitation of other vulnerabilities Read More …
This week, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added seventeen actively exploited vulnerabilities to the ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog. The ‘Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog’ is a list of vulnerabilities that have been seen abused by threat actors in attacks Read More …
Microsoft researchers have discovered a previously undisclosed vulnerability in the SolarWinds Serv-U software while monitoring threats related to Log4J vulnerabilities. Jonathan Bar Or explained on Twitter that while he was hunting for a Log4J exploit attempt, he noticed attacks coming Read More …
McAfee has patched two high-severity vulnerabilities in a component of its McAfee Enterprise product that attackers can use to escalate privileges, including up to SYSTEM. According to McAfee’s bulletin, the bugs are in versions prior to 5.7.5 of McAfee Agent, Read More …
On April 26, 2021 Apple patched CVE-2021-1740, which was a vulnerable function inside the system daemon process cfprefsd (these types of processes usually run in the background and handle system tasks). The bug could have been exploited to read arbitrary Read More …
