PJ&A says cyberattack exposed data of nearly 9 million patients
PJ&A (Perry Johnson & Associates) is warning that a cyberattack in March 2023 exposed the personal information of almost nine million patients. PJ&A provides medical…
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What They Are and How to Test Them
Web applications often handle vast amounts of data, from personal user details to sensitive corporate information. As these applications grow in complexity and importance, they…
Fraud researchers impersonated on X to push crypto-stealing sites
Multiple fake accounts impersonating cryptocurrency scam investigators and blockchain security companies are promoting phishing pages to drain wallets in an ongoing campaign on X (former…
IPStorm botnet with 23,000 proxies for malicious traffic dismantled
The U.S. Department of Justice announced today that Federal Bureau of Investigation took down the network and infrastructure of a botnet proxy service called IPStorm. IPStorm…
WP Fastest Cache plugin bug exposes 600K WordPress sites to attacks
The WordPress plugin WP Fastest Cache is vulnerable to an SQL injection vulnerability that could allow unauthenticated attackers to read the contents of the site’s database. WP…
New Reptar CPU flaw impacts Intel desktop and server systems
Intel has fixed a high-severity CPU vulnerability in its modern desktop, server, mobile, and embedded CPUs, including the latest Alder Lake, Raptor Lake, and Sapphire…
VMWare discloses critical VCD Appliance auth bypass with no patch
VMware disclosed a critical and unpatched authentication bypass vulnerability affecting Cloud Director appliance deployments. Cloud Director enables VMware admins to manage their organizations’ cloud services…
Windows 10 KB5032189 update released with 11 improvements
Microsoft has released the KB5032189 cumulative update for Windows 10 21H2 and Windows 10 22H2, which contains eleven fixes for various issues. KB5032189 is a…
New CacheWarp AMD CPU attack lets hackers gain root in Linux VMs
A new software-based fault injection attack, CacheWarp, can let threat actors hack into AMD SEV-protected virtual machines by targeting memory writes to escalate privileges and gain…
LockBit ransomware exploits Citrix Bleed in attacks, 10K servers exposed
The Lockbit ransomware attacks use publicly available exploits for the Citrix Bleed vulnerability (CVE-2023-4966) to breach the systems of large organizations, steal data, and encrypt…
Windows 11 KB5032190 update enables Moment 4 features for everyone
Microsoft has released the KB5032190 cumulative update to fix security vulnerabilities in Windows 11. This is the first Patch Tuesday update that enables Windows 11…
Microsoft November 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 5 zero-days, 58 flaws
Today is Microsoft’s November 2023 Patch Tuesday, which includes security updates for a total of 58 flaws and five zero-day vulnerabilities. While fourteen remote code…