Cybersecurity

Security concerns and outages elevate observability from IT niche to business essential – Help Net Security

Enterprises that leverage observability increase operational efficiency and grow revenue, according to SolarWinds. The report explores how enterprises can act proactively to maximise the advantages of their observability solutions, integrate best practices into implementations, and mitigate common adoption challenges. The report also found that companies implementing observability benefit from increased operational efficiency, faster innovation, and […]

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CISA adds Owl Labs, Samsung, Realtek bugs to exploited vulnerability list

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) added eight bugs on Monday and another on Tuesday to its list of known exploited vulnerabilities, giving federal civilian agencies three weeks to patch the issues which affect products from MinIO, Samsung, Realtek, Zyxel, Laravel and Owl Labs. Cybersecurity experts focused in on the vulnerabilities affecting Owl Labs, […]

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High-Severity Flaws Uncovered in Atlassian Products and ISC BIND Server

Sep 22, 2023THNServer Security / Vulnerability Atlassian and the Internet Systems Consortium (ISC) have disclosed several security flaws impacting their products that could be exploited to achieve denial-of-service (DoS) and remote code execution. The Australian software services provider said that the four high-severity flaws were fixed in new versions shipped last month. This includes – […]

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Iranian Nation-State Actor OilRig Targets Israeli Organizations

Sep 22, 2023THNCyber Attack / Malware Israeli organizations were targeted as part of two different campaigns orchestrated by the Iranian nation-state actor known as OilRig in 2021 and 2022. The campaigns, dubbed Outer Space and Juicy Mix, entailed the use of two previously documented first-stage backdoors called Solar and Mango, which were deployed to collect […]

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Atlassian Security Updates Patch High-Severity Vulnerabilities

Atlassian this week announced patches for four high-severity vulnerabilities impacting its Jira, Confluence, Bitbucket, and Bamboo products. Tracked as CVE-2023-22513 (CVSS score of 8.5), the most severe of these issues is described as a remote code execution (RCE) bug in Bitbucket that could impact confidentiality, integrity, and availability. An authenticated attacker can exploit the flaw […]

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MGM Resorts Computers Back Up After 10 Days as Analysts Eye Effects of Casino Cyberattacks

MGM Resorts brought to an end a 10-day computer shutdown prompted by efforts to shield from a cyberattack data including hotel reservations and credit card processing, the casino giant said Wednesday, as analysts and academics measured the effects of the event. “We are pleased that all of our hotels and casinos are operating normally,” the […]