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CISA Warns of Atlassian Confluence Hard-Coded Credential Bug Exploited in Attacks

By Ravie Lakshmanan — July 30th 2022 at 03:54
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Friday added the recently disclosed Atlassian security flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-26138, concerns the use of hard-coded credentials when the Questions For Confluence app is enabled in Confluence Server and Data Center
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Latest Critical Atlassian Confluence Vulnerability Under Active Exploitation

By Ravie Lakshmanan — July 29th 2022 at 03:19
A week after Atlassian rolled out patches to contain a critical flaw in its Questions For Confluence app for Confluence Server and Confluence Data Center, the shortcoming has now come under active exploitation in the wild. The bug in question is CVE-2022-26138, which concerns the use of a hard-coded password in the app that could be exploited by a remote, unauthenticated attacker to gain
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Microsoft Uncovers Austrian Company Exploiting Windows and Adobe Zero-Day Exploits

By Ravie Lakshmanan — July 28th 2022 at 11:18
A cyber mercenary that "ostensibly sells general security and information analysis services to commercial customers" used several Windows and Adobe zero-day exploits in limited and highly-targeted attacks against European and Central American entities. The company, which Microsoft describes as a private-sector offensive actor (PSOA), is an Austria-based outfit called DSIRF that's linked to the
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Taking the Risk-Based Approach to Vulnerability Patching

By The Hacker News — July 27th 2022 at 09:21
Software vulnerabilities are a major threat to organizations today. The cost of these threats is significant, both financially and in terms of reputation.Vulnerability management and patching can easily get out of hand when the number of vulnerabilities in your organization is in the hundreds of thousands of vulnerabilities and tracked in inefficient ways, such as using Excel spreadsheets or
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Microsoft Adds Default Protection Against RDP Brute-Force Attacks in Windows 11

By Ravie Lakshmanan — July 25th 2022 at 15:43
Microsoft is now taking steps to prevent Remote Desktop Protocol (RDP) brute-force attacks as part of the latest builds for the Windows 11 operating system in an attempt to raise the security baseline to meet the evolving threat landscape. To that end, the default policy for Windows 11 builds – particularly, Insider Preview builds 22528.1000 and newer – will automatically lock accounts for 10
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SonicWall Issues Patch for Critical Bug Affecting its Analytics and GMS Products

By Ravie Lakshmanan — July 22nd 2022 at 18:35
Network security company SonicWall on Friday rolled out fixes to mitigate a critical SQL injection (SQLi) vulnerability affecting its Analytics On-Prem and Global Management System (GMS) products. The vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2022-22280, is rated 9.4 for severity on the CVSS scoring system and stems from what the company describes is an "improper neutralization of special elements" used in
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