Cisco Releases Security Patches for Critical Flaws Affecting its Products

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Cisco has addressed a maximum severity vulnerability in its Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI) Multi-Site Orchestrator (MSO) that could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to bypass authentication on vulnerable devices. “An attacker could exploit this vulnerability by sending a crafted request …

The Top Free Tools for Sysadmins in 2021

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

It’s no secret that sysadmins have plenty on their plates. Managing, troubleshooting, and updating software or hardware is a tedious task. Additionally, admins must grapple with complex webs of permissions and security. This can quickly become overwhelming without the right …

Russian Hackers Targeted Ukraine Authorities With Supply-Chain Malware Attack

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Ukraine is formally pointing fingers at Russian hackers for hacking into one of its government systems and attempting to plant and distribute malicious documents that would install malware on target systems of public authorities. “The purpose of the attack was …

Experts Warns of Notable Increase in QuickBooks Data Files Theft Attacks

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

New research has uncovered a significant increase in QuickBooks file data theft using social engineering tricks to deliver malware and exploit the accounting software. “A majority of the time, the attack involves basic malware that is often signed, making it …

Online Trackers Increasingly Switching to Invasive CNAME Cloaking Technique

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

With browser makers steadily clamping down on third-party tracking, advertising technology companies are increasingly embracing a DNS technique to evade such defenses, thereby posing a threat to web security and privacy. Called CNAME Cloaking, the practice of blurring the distinction between …

Everything You Need to Know About Evolving Threat of Ransomware

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

The cybersecurity world is constantly evolving to new forms of threats and vulnerabilities. But ransomware proves to be a different animal—most destructive, persistent, notoriously challenging to prevent, and is showing no signs of slowing down. Falling victim to a ransomware …

Critical RCE Flaws Affect VMware ESXi and vSphere Client — Patch Now

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

VMware has addressed multiple critical remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities in VMware ESXi and vSphere Client virtual infrastructure management platform that may allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands and take control of affected systems. “A malicious actor with network access …

Experts Find a Way to Learn What You’re Typing During Video Calls

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

A new attack framework aims to infer keystrokes typed by a target user at the opposite end of a video conference call by simply leveraging the video feed to correlate observable body movements to the text being typed. The research …

Shadow Attacks Let Attackers Replace Content in Digitally Signed PDFs

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

Researchers have demonstrated a novel class of attacks that could allow a bad actor to potentially circumvent existing countermeasures and break the integrity protection of digitally signed PDF documents. Called “Shadow attacks” by academics from Ruhr-University Bochum, the technique uses …

5 Security Lessons for Small Security Teams for the Post COVID19 Era

Blog WriterThe Hacker News - Original news source is thehackernews.com

A full-time mass work from home (WFH) workforce was once considered an extreme risk scenario that few risk or security professionals even bothered to think about. Unfortunately, within a single day, businesses worldwide had to face such a reality. Their …