We recently audited snap-confine (a SUID-root program that is installed
by default on Ubuntu) and discovered two vulnerabilities (two Local
Privilege Escalations, from any user to root): CVE-2021-44730 and
CVE-2021-44731.
ENISA and CERT-EU strongly encourage all public and private sector organisations in the EU to adopt a minimum set of cybersecurity best practices
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For almost two decades, hackers with Snake have been forcing their way into government networks. They are considered one of the most dangerous hacker groups in the world. Who they work for, though, has always been a matter of pure speculation. But reporters with the German public broadcasters BR and WDR have discovered some clues, and they all lead to the Russian secret service FSB.
Marsh analysis, insights, and ideas, regarding new cyber insurance policy exclusion language related to war, cyber war, cyber operations, and catastrophic risk.
Researchers have revealed details of a now-patched high-severity security vulnerability in Apache Cassandra that, if left unaddressed, could be abused to gain remote code execution on affected installations.
"This Apache security vulnerability is easy to exploit and has the potential to wreak havoc on systems, but luckily only manifests in non-default configurations of Cassandra," Omer Kaspi, security researcher at DevOps firm JFrog, said in a technical write-up published Tuesday.