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200k Impacted by East Valley Institute of Technology Data Breach
/in General NewsThe personal and health information of students, staff, faculty, and parents was compromised in a data breach at East Valley Institute of Technology.
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Black Hat USA 2024 – Summary of Vendor Announcements
/in General NewsHundreds 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
/in General NewsThe 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 The second, CVE-2024-42218, lets attackers bypass security mechanisms using outdated app versions.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
/in General NewsKnowBe4 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
/in General NewsDiscover 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
/in General NewsThe 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
/in General NewsCrowdStrike 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
/in General NewsRunZero 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
/in General NewsThe 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
/in General NewsMicrosoft 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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