Black Hat USA 2024 – Summary of Vendor Announcements

Hundreds of companies and organizations showcased their products and services last week at the 2024 edition of the Black Hat conference in Las Vegas.

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Critical 1Password Flaws May Allow Hackers to Snatch Users’ Passwords

The first vulnerability, CVE-2024-42219, allows bypassing inter-process communication protections and impersonation of trusted 1Password integrations. The second, CVE-2024-42218, lets attackers bypass security mechanisms using outdated app versions.

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Common Business-Related Phishing Scams Include Fake HR and IT Subject Lines

KnowBe4 Security Awareness Advocate Erich Kron talked to TechRepublic about the importance of assessing a seemingly urgent email before clicking any links.

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Google Patches Critical Vulnerabilities in Quick Share After Researchers’ Warning

Discover how researchers exploited vulnerabilities in Google’s Quick Share to achieve remote code execution (RCE). Learn about the…

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Microsoft Found OpenVPN Bugs That can be Chained to Achieve RCE and LPE

The vulnerabilities affect all versions of OpenVPN prior to 2.6.10 and 2.5.10. Attackers could gain full control over targeted endpoints by exploiting these vulnerabilities.

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CrowdStrike Pursuing Deal to Buy Patch Management Specialist Action1

CrowdStrike is looking to acquire patch management specialist Action1 in a deal worth nearly $1 billion. Action1’s Co-Founder and CEO confirmed the discussions with CrowdStrike employees in a memo.

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SSHamble: Open-Source Security Testing of SSH Services

RunZero recently released SSHamble, an open-source tool for testing the security of SSH services. This tool helps security teams detect dangerous misconfigurations and software bugs in SSH implementations.

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FreeBSD Releases Urgent Patch for High-Severity OpenSSH Vulnerability

The maintainers of the FreeBSD Project have released security updates to address a high-severity flaw in OpenSSH that attackers could potentially exploit to execute arbitrary code remotely with elevated privileges.
The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2024-7589, carries a CVSS score of 7.4 out of a maximum of 10.0, indicating high severity.
“A signal handler in sshd(8) may call a logging function

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Worried about the Windows BitLocker recovery bug? 6 things you need to know

Microsoft alerted its customers to a frightening bug in Windows 11. What are the chances you’ll encounter that bug, and what should you do to prepare? I have the answers here.

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Researchers Uncover Vulnerabilities in Solarman and Deye Solar Systems

Cybersecurity researchers have identified a number of security shortcomings in photovoltaic system management platforms operated by Chinese companies Solarman and Deye that could enable malicious actors to cause disruption and power blackouts.
“If exploited, these vulnerabilities could allow an attacker to control inverter settings that could take parts of the grid down, potentially causing

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