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Progress urges admins to patch critical WhatsUp Gold bugs ASAP
Progress Software warned customers to patch multiple critical and high-severity vulnerabilities in its WhatsUp Gold network monitoring tool as soon as possible. However, even though it released WhatsUp Gold 24.0.1, which addressed the issues last Friday and published an advisory on Tuesday, the company has yet to provide any details regarding these flaws. “The WhatsUp Gold team […]
CISA urges software devs to weed out XSS vulnerabilities
CISA and the FBI urged technology manufacturing companies to review their software and ensure that future releases are free of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities before shipping. The two federal agencies said that XSS vulnerabilities still plague software released today, creating further exploitation opportunities for threat actors even though they’re preventable and should not be present in […]
CISA warns of Jenkins RCE bug exploited in ransomware attacks
CISA has added a critical Jenkins vulnerability that can be exploited to gain remote code execution to its catalog of security bugs, warning that it’s actively exploited in attacks. Jenkins is a widely used open-source automation server that helps developers automate the process of building, testing, and deploying software through continuous integration (CI) and continuous delivery […]
Exploit released for Cisco SSM bug allowing admin password changes
Cisco warns that exploit code is now available for a maximum severity vulnerability that lets attackers change any user password on unpatched Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (Cisco SSM On-Prem) license servers. As a Cisco Smart Licensing component, Cisco SSM On-Prem helps manage accounts and product licenses on an organization’s environment using a dedicated dashboard […]
CISA warns of hackers abusing Cisco Smart Install feature
On Thursday, the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recommended disabling the legacy Cisco Smart Install (SMI) feature after seeing it abused in recent attacks. CISA has spotted threat actors using this tactic and leveraging other protocols or software to steal sensitive data, such as system configuration files, which prompted an alert advising admins to disable […]
Google Chrome now warns about risky password-protected archives
Google Chrome now warns when downloading risky password-protected files and provides improved alerts with more information about potentially malicious downloaded files. These new, more detailed warning messages help users quickly learn the nature of the danger presented by each file downloaded from the Internet. For this, Google introduced a two-tier download warning system that uses AI-powered […]