A San Diego public hospital is diverting ambulances and patients to other facilities as it deals with a cyberattack detected early Thursday. The medical center is the latest among a growing roster of regional healthcare providers forced to suddenly shift patients to neighboring entities due to a cybersecurity crisis. Tri-City Medical Center is an acute…

Facebook is the most secure social networking site among the major players, thanks to improved privacy controls and support for more secure two-factor authentication technology, but the social media sector as a whole remains vulnerable to different types of account takeover. According to a study released Tuesday by access management vendor Cerby, the biggest area…

Cisco released several patches for high and critical vulnerabilities affecting several products like its Firepower network security devices, Identity Services Engine (ISE)) network access control platform, and Adaptive Security Appliance (ASA). The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) issued an alert urging administrators to deploy the available patches because “a cyber threat actor could…

The infamous North Korean advanced persistent threat (APT) group Lazarus has developed a form of macOS malware called “KandyKorn,” which it is using to target blockchain engineers connected to cryptocurrency exchanges. According to a report from Elastic Security Labs, KandyKorn has a full-featured set of capabilities to detect, access, and steal any data from the…

F5 this week warned customers about a critical security vulnerability, tracked as CVE-2023-46747 (CVSS 9.8), that impacts BIG-IP and could result in unauthenticated remote code execution. The vulnerability resides in the configuration utility component, it was reported by Michael Weber and Thomas Hendrickson of Praetorian on October 4, 2023. “This vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated…

The charges stem from alleged fraud and internal control failures related to known cybersecurity weaknesses that took place between the company’s October 2018 initial public offering (IPO) and its December 2020 revelation of a sophisticated cyberattack dubbed “SUNBURST.” The software supply chain cyberattack involved Russia-linked threat actors breaching SolarWinds systems in 2019, or possibly even…

Researchers have developed a side-channel exploit for Apple CPUs, enabling sophisticated attackers to extract sensitive information from browsers. Side-channel attacks are usually overlooked, often physical counterparts to traditional software hacks. Rather than an unsecured password or a vulnerability in a program, they take advantage of the extra information a computer system or hardware generates —…

VMware urged customers to update VMware vCenter Servers against a critical flaw that could potentially lead to remote code execution (RCE) and assigned a CVSS severity score of 9.8. The vCenter Server flaw, tracked under CVE-2023-34048, could allow an attacker with network access the ability to trigger an out-of-bounds write, the VMware advisory explained. Software…