Security done right – infosec wins of 2022
The toasts, triumphs, and biggest security wins of the year As 2022 draws to a close, The Daily Swig is revisiting some of the year’s…
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Stupid security 2022 – this year’s infosec fails
Epic web security fails and salutary lessons from another inevitably eventful year in infosec As 2022 draws to a close, The Daily Swig is revisiting…
Passport-SAML auth bypass triggers fix of critical, upstream XMLDOM bug
Adam Bannister 08 November 2022 at 16:33 UTC Updated: 25 November 2022 at 10:37 UTC Rapid remedy follows reawakening of long-dormant bug threat A critical…
CSS injection flaw patched in Acronis cloud management console
CSRF attacks could be triggered to access and exfiltrate information A security researcher has disclosed a CSS injection flaw in Acronis software which could be…
Google Pixel screen-lock hack earns researcher $70k
John Leyden 10 November 2022 at 16:14 UTC Updated: 11 November 2022 at 11:23 UTC Android security pwned by PUK reset trick A security researcher…
CSRF in Plesk API enabled server takeover
Ben Dickson 11 November 2022 at 11:31 UTC Updated: 11 November 2022 at 16:51 UTC Bugs in programming interfaces of web hosting admin tool patched…
Prototype pollution project yields another Parse Server RCE
Adam Bannister 11 November 2022 at 15:37 UTC Updated: 02 December 2022 at 11:49 UTC Bug emerges from ambition to find ‘end-to-end exploits beyond DoS’…
All Day DevOps: Third of Log4j downloads still pull vulnerable version despite threat of supply chain attacks
Adam Bannister 14 November 2022 at 16:16 UTC Updated: 24 November 2022 at 12:50 UTC AppSec engineer keynote says Log4j revealed lessons were not learned…
Mastodon users vulnerable to password-stealing attacks
Jessica Haworth 15 November 2022 at 15:39 UTC Updated: 15 November 2022 at 15:47 UTC Patched bug could have leaked credentials Attackers could steal password…
Zendesk Explore flaws opened the door to account pillage
John Leyden 15 November 2022 at 16:10 UTC Updated: 16 November 2022 at 11:18 UTC Patched SQLi and logical access vulnerabilities posed serious risk Security…
F5 fixes high severity RCE bug in BIG-IP, BIG-IQ devices
Adam Bannister 16 November 2022 at 15:02 UTC Updated: 16 November 2022 at 15:06 UTC Widespread exploitation deemed ‘unlikely’ given hurdles Security vendor F5 has…
Google Roulette: Developer console trick can trigger XSS in Chromium browsers
Ben Dickson 17 November 2022 at 13:16 UTC Updated: 17 November 2022 at 14:10 UTC A case study on the complexity of browser security Malicious…