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Cyber Security Monitor Alerts News Notifications. We monitor and send notifications on the latest Cyber Security alerts, blogs, news on data breaches and emerging cyber threats.
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Beijing Olympics App Flaws Allow Man-in-the-Middle Attacks
Attackers can access audio and files uploaded to the MY2022 mobile app required for use by all winter games attendees – including personal health details. Read more
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The Log4j Vulnerability Puts Pressure on the Security World
It’s time to sound the alarm for Log4Shell. Saryu Nayyar, CEO at Gurucul, discusses what actions you should be taking. Read more
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Will 2022 Be the Year of the Software Bill of Materials?
Praise be & pass the recipe for the software soup: There’s too much scrambling to untangle vulnerabilities and dependencies, say a security experts roundtable. Read more
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CISA Adds 13 Known Exploited Vulnerabilities to Catalog
Original release date: January 18, 2022 CISA has added 13 new vulnerabilities to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence that threat actors are actively exploiting the vulnerabilities listed in the table below. These types of vulnerabilities are a frequent attack vector for malicious cyber actors of all types and pose significant risk to… Read more
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Critical ManageEngine Desktop Server Bug Opens Orgs to Malware
Zoho’s comprehensive endpoint-management platform suffers from an authentication-bypass bug (CVE-2021-44757) that could lead to remote code execution. Read more
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Organizations Face a ‘Losing Battle’ Against Vulnerabilities
Companies must take more ‘innovative and proactive’ approaches to security in 2022 to combat threats that emerged last year, researchers said. Read more
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Vulnerability Summary for the Week of January 10, 2022
Original release date: January 17, 2022 High Vulnerabilities Primary Vendor — Product Description Published CVSS Score Source & Patch Info agoric — realms-shim All versions of package realms-shim are vulnerable to Sandbox Bypass via a Prototype Pollution attack vector. 2022-01-10 7.5 CVE-2021-23543 MISC MISC agoric — realms-shim All versions of package realms-shim are vulnerable… Read more
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Microsoft Warns of Destructive Malware Targeting Ukrainian Organizations
Original release date: January 16, 2022 Microsoft has released a blog post on possible Master Boot Record (MBR) Wiper activity targeting Ukrainian organizations, including Ukrainian government agencies. According to Microsoft, powering down the victim device executes the malware, which overwrites the MBR with a ransom note; however, the ransom note is a ruse because the… Read more
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Real Big Phish: Mobile Phishing & Managing User Fallibility
Phishing is more successful than ever. Daniel Spicer, CSO of Ivanti, discusses emerging trends in phishing, and using zero-trust security to patch the human vulnerabilities underpinning the spike. Read more
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Critical Cisco Contact Center Bug Threatens Customer-Service Havoc
Attackers could access and modify agent resources, telephone queues and other customer-service systems – and access personal information on companies’ customers. Read more