CrowdStrike Hits Back at Action1 Following $1 Billion Acquisition Rumors

CrowdStrike has denied having any significant acquisition talks with patch management firm Action1 following rumors of a $1 billion deal.

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Cisco Patches High-Severity Vulnerability Reported by NSA

A high-severity vulnerability in Cisco Unified CM and Unified CM SME could allow attackers to cause a denial-of-service (DoS) condition.

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Google Fixes Ninth Chrome Zero-Day Exploited in Attacks This Year

Google released an emergency security update to fix the ninth zero-day vulnerability exploited in attacks this year. The vulnerability, known as CVE-2024-7971, involves a type confusion weakness in Chrome’s V8 JavaScript engine.

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The Facts About Continuous Penetration Testing and Why It’s Important

What is Continuous Attack Surface Penetration Testing or CASPT?
Continuous Penetration Testing or Continuous Attack Surface Penetration Testing (CASPT) is an advanced security practice that involves the continuous, automated, and ongoing penetration testing services of an organization’s digital assets to identify and mitigate security vulnerabilities. CASPT is designed for enterprises with an

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Ingress-NGINX Annotation Validation Bypass Flaw (CVE-2024-7646) Allows Command Injection

The vulnerability allows attackers to inject malicious content into annotations, leading to arbitrary command injection and potential access to controller credentials, enabling full access to cluster secrets.

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Exploitation Expected for Flaw in Caching Plugin Installed on 5M WordPress Sites

A critical vulnerability in the Litespeed Cache WordPress plugin can allow attackers to hack websites by creating an admin user.

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Google Patches Sixth Exploited Chrome Zero-Day of 2024

Chrome 128 was released in the stable channel with patches for 38 vulnerabilities, including a V8 JavaScript engine flaw exploited in the wild.

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MegaMedusa, RipperSec’s Public Web DDoS Attack Tool

RipperSec, a pro-Palestinian hacktivist group based in Malaysia, has released MegaMedusa, a publicly available Web DDoS attack tool that simplifies launching large-scale DDoS attacks.

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Critical Flaw in LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Actively Exploited: Over 30,000 Attacks Blocked in 24 Hours

The widely used LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is being actively exploited through a critical security vulnerability, CVE-2024-28000, with over 30,000 attack attempts blocked in just 24 hours.

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Critical Flaw in WordPress LiteSpeed Cache Plugin Allows Hackers Admin Access

Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed a critical security flaw in the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress that could permit unauthenticated users to gain administrator privileges.
“The plugin suffers from an unauthenticated privilege escalation vulnerability which allows any unauthenticated visitor to gain Administrator level access after which malicious plugins could be uploaded and

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