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Why Addressing Vulnerabilities Is A Challenging Process For An IT Security Team
As the IT infrastructure and the business data becomes more complex, security concerns in businesses increase drastically. According to the National Vulnerabilities Database, the number of Common Vulnerabilities and Exploit in a network has tripled since 2016. As a result, cybercriminals are taking ...
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Microsoft May 2022 Patch Tuesday Addresses 75 Vulnerabilities Including 3 Zero-Days
Microsoft May 2022 Patch Tuesday has released security updates addressing a total of 75 detected vulnerabilities. On the other hand, 8 are classified as critical, 66 as important, and 1 as low severity. Microsoft may 2022 patch Tuesday products covered in the May security update include Remote Deskt...
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Apache Wicket: Defeating Encrypted And Stateful URLs
Apache Wicket is an open-source, server-side, Java web application framework and used by quite a few big sites. It is discovered that the ‘encrypted url feature‘ is expected to protect from CSRF (Cross-Site Request Forgery) attacks, but it fails to provide enough protection against CSRF attacks Apac...
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Log4Shell-Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability in H2database Console
JFrog has recently disclosed a remote code execution vulnerability on H2 Database consoles. This is based on a Java Naming and Directory Interface(JNDI) vulnerability, and its root cause is similar to the recent Log4Shell vulnerability in Apache Log4j. H2 is an open-source RDBMS in Java that offers...
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Apple’s March 2023 Updates Addresses Multiple Security Vulnerabilities!
Apple’s March 2023 Updates released multiple security updates in-order to patch various Apple products affected by multiple vulnerabilities. A total of 126 vulnerabilities were fixed in six of its products on March 27th. An attacker who successfully exploits these flaws could compromise the affected...
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High-Risk Vulnerability in TeamViewer Could be Exploited to Crack Users’ Password
The discovery of a high-risk vulnerability was in TeamViewer for Windows. It has a tracking as “CVE-2020-13699“, with a CVSS base score of “8.8,” in which exploits can happen by remote attacks to crack users’ passwords and, thereupon, lead to further system exploitation. Vulnerability Management Sof...
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Warning: Atlassian Critical Vulnerabilities Being Actively Exploited- Patch Now!
Atlassian released patches for three critical vulnerabilities (CVE-2022-26136, CVE-2022-26137, CVE-2022-26138). Out of the three flaws, two impacts Confluence Server, Confluence Data Center, and some other products, as well as Bamboo, BitBucket, Fisheye, and Jira, and one of the flaws impacts only C...
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PwnKit Linux vulnerability Jan-2022: Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability In Major Linux Distributions
Most of the Linux distributions have the pkexec binary. The vulnerability (CVE-2021-4034) lies in that binary. The pkexec is a part PwnKit Linux vulnerability Jan-2022, which affects the Polkit open-source application framework used for interaction between privileged and unprivileged processes. Furt...