Tag: advisory
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Check Point Unveils Secure AI Advisory Service to Help Enterprises Govern AI Adoption
Check Point Software has launched a new Secure AI Advisory Service designed to help organisations adopt artificial intelligence safely while maintaining governance, regulatory compliance, and risk control. As AI rapidly moves from experimental use cases to becoming a core part of enterprise infrastructure, many organisations are struggling to keep governance and oversight in step with…
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Flaws Expose Devices to Root Access, Threatening Network Security
Cisco has issued critical software updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly SD-WAN vManage) that could allow attackers to bypass authentication, elevate privileges to root, and execute arbitrary commands. The advisory (cisco-sa-sdwan-authbp-qwCX8D4v), originally published on February 25, 2026, was urgently updated on March 5, 2026, after Cisco confirmed active in-the-wild exploitation…
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Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Flaws Expose Devices to Root Access, Threatening Network Security
Cisco has issued critical software updates to address multiple vulnerabilities in the Catalyst SD-WAN Manager (formerly SD-WAN vManage) that could allow attackers to bypass authentication, elevate privileges to root, and execute arbitrary commands. The advisory (cisco-sa-sdwan-authbp-qwCX8D4v), originally published on February 25, 2026, was urgently updated on March 5, 2026, after Cisco confirmed active in-the-wild exploitation…
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Honeywell Controllers Widely Exposed Without Authentication
Security researchers at Zero Science Lab have disclosed a critical vulnerability in Honeywell’s Trend IQ4xx series of Building Management System (BMS) controllers, revealing that the devices expose their full web-based Human-Machine Interface (HMI) without any authentication in their factory-default configuration. The advisory, tracked as ZSL-2026-5979, was publicly released on March 2, 2026, after months of…
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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NCSC Warns UK Organisations to Prepare for Potential Iran-Linked Cyber Activity
Tags: advisory, attack, awareness, breach, business, china, cyber, cybercrime, data, data-breach, espionage, exploit, finance, government, group, incident response, infrastructure, international, Internet, iran, leak, malware, middle-east, military, monitoring, phishing, resilience, risk, russia, service, supply-chain, tactics, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, vulnerability-managementGeopolitical conflict rarely stays confined to physical battlefields. Increasingly, it spills into the digital domain. The latest escalation of tensions in the Middle East has prompted the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) to issue a warning to organisations to review their cyber security posture and prepare for possible cyber activity linked to Iran. While…
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Google Confirms CVE-2026-21385 in Qualcomm Android Component Exploited
Google on Monday disclosed that a high-severity security flaw impacting an open-source Qualcomm component used in Android devices has been exploited in the wild.The vulnerability in question is CVE-2026-21385 (CVSS score: 7.8), a buffer over-read in the Graphics component.”Memory corruption when adding user-supplied data without checking available buffer space,” Qualcomm said in an advisory, First…
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British organizations urged to be alert to threat of Iranian cyberattacks
In an advisory, the U.K.’s National Cyber Security Centre warned British organizations to review and strengthen their cyber defenses amid the evolving situation in Iran and throughout the Middle East. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/iran-britain-cyber-threats-warning
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CVE-2026-20127: Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller/Manager Zero-Day Authentication Bypass Vulnerability Exploited in the Wild
Tags: access, advisory, attack, authentication, cisa, cisco, cve, cyber, cybersecurity, exploit, flaw, government, infrastructure, intelligence, mitigation, network, risk, software, threat, update, vulnerability, zero-dayExploitation of a maximum severity authentication bypass zero-day vulnerability affecting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Manager has been reported. Immediate patching is recommended to thwart ongoing attacks. Key takeaways: CVE-2026-20127 is an Authentication Bypass Vulnerability affecting Cisco Catalyst SD-WAN Controller and Manager. Patches have been released and no workarounds are currently available. Exploitation in the…
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Modern Vulnerability Management in the Age of AI
<div cla Vulnerability management today is not failing because teams stopped scanning. It’s failing because the ground underneath it shifted. The approach we’ve relied on, complete advisory data, upstream fixes on demand, and fast upgrades, no longer holds up. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2026/02/modern-vulnerability-management-in-the-age-of-ai/
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Boards don’t need cyber metrics, they need risk signals
Tags: access, advisory, ai, attack, automation, awareness, business, ciso, control, cyber, cybersecurity, data, framework, governance, intelligence, metric, phishing, riskThe seduction of counting: Even when metrics are not too technical and align with business impact, another problem emerges: What gets counted can crowd out what matters.Wendy Nather, a longtime CISO who is now an advisor at EPSD, cautions against equating measurement with understanding. “When you are reporting to the board, there are some things…
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VMware Aria Flaws Enable Attackers to Execute Remote Code
Broadcom has released security advisory VMSA-2026-0001 on February 24, 2026, disclosing three vulnerabilities in VMware Aria Operations that could allow attackers to execute arbitrary commands remotely. The flaws affect VMware Aria Operations, VMware Cloud Foundation, VMware Telco Cloud Platform, and VMware Telco Cloud Infrastructure, and patches are now available for all impacted versions. Vulnerabilities Overview…
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Attackers exploit Ivanti EPMM zero-days to seize control of MDM servers
Patch, but verify first: Unit 42 directed organizations to Ivanti’s security advisory for remediation guidance, which recommends applying version-specific RPM patches for EPMM 12.x branches that require no appliance downtime. Ivanti cautioned, however, that the patch does not survive a version upgrade and must be reinstalled if the software is updated. “The permanent fix for…
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Splunk Enterprise for Windows Flaw Enables DLL Hijacking, SYSTEM Access
A serious flaw in Splunk Enterprise for Windows that lets low-privileged users hijack DLL loading and escalate to SYSTEM-level access. Tracked as CVE-2026-20140, this local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability stems from DLL search-order hijacking and carries a CVSSv3.1 score of 7.7 (High). Splunk disclosed it on February 18, 2026, via advisory SVD-2026-0205. The issue affects…
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From in-house CISO to consultant. What you need to know before making the leap
Tags: advisory, best-practice, business, ciso, compliance, control, cybersecurity, framework, jobs, resilience, risk, service, skills, toolSkills that carry over into consulting: Many of the skills CISOs honed inside large organizations translate directly to the new consulting job, while others suddenly matter more than they ever did before. In addition to technical skills, it is often the practical ones that prove most valuable.The ability to prioritize, sharpened over years in a…
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From in-house CISO to consultant. What you need to know before making the leap
Tags: advisory, best-practice, business, ciso, compliance, control, cybersecurity, framework, jobs, resilience, risk, service, skills, toolSkills that carry over into consulting: Many of the skills CISOs honed inside large organizations translate directly to the new consulting job, while others suddenly matter more than they ever did before. In addition to technical skills, it is often the practical ones that prove most valuable.The ability to prioritize, sharpened over years in a…
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Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography
Tags: access, advisory, api, attack, authentication, computing, credentials, cryptography, data, email, encryption, github, hacker, oracle, side-channel, software, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerabilityTwo popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of downstream projects. When we shared one of these bugs with an affected vendor, strongSwan, the maintainer provided a model response for security vendors. The…
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Carelessness versus craftsmanship in cryptography
Tags: access, advisory, api, attack, authentication, computing, credentials, cryptography, data, email, encryption, github, hacker, oracle, side-channel, software, threat, tool, update, vpn, vulnerabilityTwo popular AES libraries, aes-js and pyaes, “helpfully” provide a default IV in their AES-CTR API, leading to a large number of key/IV reuse bugs. These bugs potentially affect thousands of downstream projects. When we shared one of these bugs with an affected vendor, strongSwan, the maintainer provided a model response for security vendors. The…
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In GitHub’s advisory pipeline, some advisories move faster than others
GitHub Security Advisories are used to distribute vulnerability information in open-source projects and security tools. A new study finds that only a portion of those … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2026/02/16/github-security-advisorie-review-timelines-study/
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CISA Issues Alert on ZLAN ICS Flaws Enabling Full Device Takeover
Tags: advisory, cisa, cyber, cybersecurity, flaw, infrastructure, network, technology, vulnerabilityThe Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a critical advisory regarding significant security flaws discovered in industrial networking equipment manufactured by ZLAN Information Technology Co. The alert, identified as ICSA-26-041-02, focuses on the ZLAN5143D serial-to-Ethernet device server, a component widely utilized to bridge legacy serial devices with modern network infrastructure. These vulnerabilities pose…
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Researchers unearth 30-year-old vulnerability in libpng library
Tags: advisory, ai, cvss, exploit, flaw, network, open-source, ransomware, software, threat, tool, update, vulnerability, zero-daypng_set_quantize, which is used for reducing the number of colors in PNG images, and present in all versions of libpng prior to version 1.6.55.”When the function is called with no histogram and the number of colours in the palette is more than twice the maximum supported by the user’s display, certain palettes will cause the…
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Cyberangriff auf EU-Kommission
Tags: advisory, authentication, bug, cve, cvss, cyberattack, endpoint, exploit, germany, ivanti, mail, mobile, usa, vulnerabilityCyberkriminellen ist es gelungen, in ein System der EU-Kommission einzudringen.Die Europäische Kommission wurde Ziel einer Cyberattacke. Wie aus einer kürzlich veröffentlichten Mitteilung hervorgeht, erfolgte der Angriff Ende Januar und zielte auf ein System zur Verwaltung mobiler Endgeräte ab (Mobile Device Management MDM) .Demnach sind die Täter möglicherweise an Namen und Rufnummern einiger Mitarbeiter gekommen. Es…
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Germany warns of state-linked phishing campaign targeting journalists, government officials
Tags: access, advisory, communications, cybersecurity, germany, government, intelligence, office, phishingIn a joint advisory issued late last week, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency (BfV) and federal cybersecurity office (BSI) said attackers are attempting to gain access to private messaging accounts in order to monitor confidential communications and potentially compromise broader networks. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/germany-warns-phishing-campaign-signal-gov-officials-journalists