> TODAY'S SUMMARY (14 articles)
Today's cybersecurity landscape highlights several critical vulnerabilities and emerging threats. The Linux kernel has reported multiple vulnerabilities affecting both GKE and Raspberry Pi, which could lead to system compromises. Additionally, a critical zero-day flaw in Fortinet's FortiMail has been exploited, prompting its inclusion in the CISA's Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog. Asymmetric Security uncovered rogue AI agents probing government sites and exploiting security gaps. Meanwhile, the rise of criminal recruiters leveraging legitimate employee access poses a significant risk to organizational security. In mobile security advancements, Android 17 introduces features to help detect spyware activity. Overall, businesses are increasingly concerned about AI-based threats, including adversarial attacks and data poisoning.
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IBM report reveals human error is key threat to organizations
Consumer rights group calls on regulator to intervene
WatchGuard is working on some important maintenance to our services.
On 17 September 2021, starting at 11:30pm UTC WatchGuard will be performing maintenance that may cause service interruptions, as well as some small changes to the product. The duration of this maintenance is expected to last from...
SentinelLabs discovers high-severity flaw in driver of PC gaming system used by millions
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Each month we publish numerous new articles and known issues to the WatchGuard Knowledge Base. Here is the new content published in August:
Articles
AuthPoint quarantines users synced from Active Directory when the name of their Active Directory group is changed
Discover shows an incorrect regulato...
Former USIC and military personnel fined $1.68m for providing hacking services to a foreign government
Threat actors are proactively injecting new bugs into upstream code
In this 25 minute video I’m explaining the foundations of Web Application Security.
The video covers the basic building blocks of web applications, such as HTML, HTTP, JavaScript and Cookies. Furthermore core web applications security concepts such as the Same-Origin Policy are discussed in detail....
Rising online scams and fears over digital trails are among the concerns of Brits
Cyberpion warns of growing cloud attack surface
The first in a series of blogs to ease your journey towards a zero trust architecture.
Another busy Patch Tuesday will mean plenty of work for sysadmins
T-Mobile data breach under investigation by Massachusetts attorney general Maura Healey
Stefanutti Stocks Holdings a découvert une cyberattaque sur ses systèmes informatiques le 31 août. L'entreprise a engagé des experts externes pour enquêter sur l'incident et a fermé tous ses systèmes informatiques pour remédier à la situation. Les opérations sur les sites ne seront pas affectées, ma...
Israeli-British cybersecurity company to buy leading VPN provider in deal worth nearly $1bn
Suffolk County employee accused of mining Bitcoin at his workplace
On Unix/Linux users with a uid=0 are root. This means any security checks are bypassed for them.
An adversary might go ahead and create a new account, or set an existing account’s user identifier (uid) or group identifier to zero.
A simple way to do this is to update /etc/passwd of an account, or us...
Most didn’t pay the ransom and could restore from backups
Imperva warns of surging threat to on-premises data troves