The flaw poses a significant risk of unauthorized data access, system alterations, potential data theft, and complete takeover of vulnerable systems, especially in the IoT and embedded computing space.
| | | LATEST SECURITY NEWS & COMMENTARY | | 'Looney Tunables' Bug Opens Millions of Linux Systems to Root Takeover The flaw poses a significant risk of unauthorized data access, system alterations, potential data theft, and complete takeover of vulnerable systems, especially in the IoT and embedded computing space. Patch Confusion for Critical Exim Bug Puts Email Servers at Risk — Again Defenders have been left scrambling after the way patches were released for six flaws in the open source mail server, which is the most popular mail transfer agent on the Internet. Bing Chat LLM Tricked into Circumventing CAPTCHA Filter By reframing the narrative of the filter, the large-language model chatbot was more willing to solve the visual puzzle and override its programming. Turnkey Rootkit for Amateur Hackers Makes Supply Chain Attacks Easy It's never been easier to hide malware in plain sight in open source software package repositories, and "DiscordRAT 2.0" now makes it easy to take advantage of those who stumble upon it. AWS Plans Multifactor Authentication Mandates for 2024 Amazon will add new MFA requirements for users with the highest privileges, with plans to include other user levels over time. Breaches Are the Cost of Doing Business, but NIST Is Here to Help Treating the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as a business requirement is a strong step toward preventing breaches. How to Measure Patching and Remediation Performance Tracking metrics like MTTR, MTTD, MTTP, and MTTC can demonstrate the effectiveness of your patch management process and your value to the business. (Sponsored Article) AI in Software Development: The Good, the Bad, and the Dangerous Just like with using open source, organizations need to be diligent about testing AI components and understanding where and how it is used in their software. MORE NEWS / MORE COMMENTARY | | |
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