Cybersecurity

GitHub’s Secret Scanning Feature Now Covers AWS, Microsoft, Google, and Slack

Oct 06, 2023NewsroomProgramming / Software Security GitHub has announced an improvement to its secret scanning feature that extends validity checks to popular services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft, Google, and Slack. Validity checks, introduced by the Microsoft subsidiary earlier this year, alert users whether exposed tokens found by secret scanning are active, thereby […]

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Cisco Releases Urgent Patch to Fix Critical Flaw in Emergency Responder Systems

Oct 05, 2023NewsroomNetwork Security / Software Patch Cisco has released updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Emergency Responder that allows unauthenticated, remote attackers to sign into susceptible systems using hard-coded credentials. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-20101 (CVSS score: 9.8), is due to the presence of static user credentials for the root account that […]

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Chalk: Open-source software security and infrastructure visibility tool – Help Net Security

Chalk is a free, open-source tool that helps improve software security. You add a single line to your build script, and it will automatically collect and inject metadata into every build artifact: source code, binaries, and containers. Gaining visibility Chalk enables complete visibility across the development process, from the first time a developer creates the […]

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Progress Software says business impact ‘minimal’ from MOVEit attack spree

Progress Software has borne minimal impact from the mass exploit of a zero-day vulnerability in its file-transfer service MOVEit despite supply chain compromises that have affected more than 2,100 organizations. Researchers say the data of at least 62 million people has been exposed by the attacks. Progress reported $951,000 in cyber incident and vulnerability response […]

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Progress Software Releases Urgent Hotfixes for Multiple Security Flaws in WS_FTP Server

Sep 29, 2023THNServer Security / Vulnerability Progress Software has released hotfixes for a critical security vulnerability, alongside seven other flaws, in the WS_FTP Server Ad hoc Transfer Module and in the WS_FTP Server manager interface. Tracked as CVE-2023-40044, the flaw has a CVSS score of 10.0, indicating maximum severity. All versions of the software are […]

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Cisco Warns of Vulnerability in IOS and IOS XE Software After Exploitation Attempts

Sep 29, 2023THNVulnerability / Network Security Cisco is warning of attempted exploitation of a security flaw in its IOS Software and IOS XE Software that could permit an authenticated remote attacker to achieve remote code execution on affected systems. The medium-severity vulnerability is tracked as CVE-2023-20109, and has a CVSS score of 6.6. It impacts […]