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Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

All the newly resolved vulnerabilities were discovered by external researchers and the internet giant has handed out $38,000 in bug bounty rewards to the reporters. Based on the bug bounty amounts that Google has paid out, the most severe of the newly addressed flaws is CVE-2022-3445, a use-after-free vulnerability in Skia, the open-source 2D graphics…

Application Security

Issued by: Security Week

A type of memory corruption bugs, use-after-free issues occur when a program does not clear the pointer after freeing memory allocation. These flaws could lead to arbitrary code execution, data corruption, or denial of service. Use-after-free vulnerabilities may also be combined with other security flaws, leading to complete system compromise. The exploitation of use-after-free issues…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Security Week

Twenty-one of the resolved security defects were reported by external researchers, including one critical-, eight high-, nine medium-, and three low-severity vulnerabilities. A total of nine use-after-free issues were resolved with the latest browser update, the most important of which is a critical flaw in the Network Service component, reported by Google Project Zero researcher…

Malware & Threats

Issued by: Dark Reading

The threat associated with nation-state-backed hacking groups has been well-researched and chronicled in recent times, but there’s another, equally dangerous set of adversaries that’s operated comparatively in the shadows for years. These are hack-for-hire groups that specialize in breaking into systems and stealing email and other data as a service. Their clients can be private…

Cloud Security

Issued by: Dark Reading

RSA CONFERENCE 2022 – If cloud services weren’t complicated enough for the typical business today to properly configure and secure, there’s also a lesser-known layer of middleware that cloud providers run that can harbor hidden security flaws. Researchers from Wiz.io last week at RSA Conference in San Francisco unveiled an open source, cloud middleware database…

Network Security

Issued by: Security Week

At a time when there countless unfulfilled cybersecurity positions worldwide, too many companies overlook neurodiverse candidates in their hiring processes. This a huge mistake as people with autism, dyslexia, and other conditions often possess skills that are well suited for cybersecurity work. Those skills include the ability to concentrate, a capacity for recognizing anomalies, and…

Vulnerabilities

Issued by: Blog Malwarebytes

Some major tech companies have unwittingly opened harassment and exploitation opportunities to the women and children who they have pledged to protect. This happened because they provided information in response to emergency data requests from legitimate law enforcement accounts that hackers had compromised. This finding came from four federal law enforcement agencies and a couple…