Meta Fined €251 Million for 2018 Data Breach Impacting 29 Million Accounts Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) for a 2018 data breach that impacted millions of users in the bloc, in what’s the latest financial hit Read more…
Researcher Uncovers Flaws in Cox Modems, Potentially Impacting Millions Now-patched authorization bypass issues impacting Cox modems could have been abused as a starting point to gain unauthorized access to the devices and run malicious commands. “This series of vulnerabilities demonstrated a way in which a fully external attacker with no Read more…
QNAP Patches New Flaws in QTS and QuTS hero Impacting NAS Appliances Taiwanese company QNAP has rolled out fixes for a set of medium-severity flaws impacting QTS and QuTS hero, some of which could be exploited to achieve code execution on its network-attached storage (NAS) appliances. The issues, which impact QTS 5.1.x and Read more…
Cisco Fixes High-Risk Vulnerability Impacting Unity Connection Software Jan 11, 2024NewsroomVulnerability / Patch Management Cisco has released software updates to address a critical security flaw impacting Unity Connection that could permit an adversary to execute arbitrary commands on the underlying system. Tracked as CVE-2024-20272 (CVSS score: 7.3), the vulnerability is Read more…
Google Cloud Resolves Privilege Escalation Flaw Impacting Kubernetes Service Dec 28, 2023NewsroomCloud Security / Data Protection Google Cloud has addressed a medium-severity security flaw in its platform that could be abused by an attacker who already has access to a Kubernetes cluster to escalate their privileges. “An attacker who has Read more…
5 Must-Know Trends Impacting AppSec Oct 30, 2023The Hacker NewsWebinar / Web App Security Modern web app development relies on cloud infrastructure and containerization. These technologies scale on demand, handling millions of daily file transfers – it’s almost impossible to imagine a world without them. However, they also introduce multiple Read more…