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Kris Nova a transgender activist and an open-source computer engineer has worked extensively on Linux and Kubernetes.

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has added to the catalog of vulnerabilities another 15 security issues actively used in cyber attacks.

The high-severity vulnerabilities that CISA has added to its patch-now list include SeriousSAM privilege escalation and SMB remote code execution.

Of the 16 vulnerabilities found, 10 have been described as “high severity”.

Researchers at enterprise security firm Binarly have discovered no less than 23 high-impact vulnerabilities in the BIOS/UEFI firmware used by several computer vendors like Intel, AMD, Lenovo,...

A vulnerability in Polkits pkexec component identified as CVE-2021-4034 (PwnKit) is present in the default configuration of all major Linux distributions and can be exploited to gain full root privileges on the system, researchers warn today.

Analysis of 200,000+ malware files demonstrates shift towards ransomware SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 1, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Picus Security, the pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) technology

/PRNewswire/ -- Picus Security, the pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) technology, today announced the release of its 2021 Red Report. The report is...

/PRNewswire/ -- Picus Security, the pioneer of Breach and Attack Simulation (BAS) technology, today announced the release of its 2021 Red Report. The report is...

Rechteausweitung in Windows: Microsoft verbockt Sicherheitsupdate Microsoft hat laut eigenen Angaben mit dem Juni Patch-Day einen Fehler behoben, der von Unbefugten zur Rechteausweitung genutzt werden konnte. Nun meldet allerdings der Forscher, der die Schwachstelle entdeckt hatte, dass die Behebung unvollständig ist. Es geht bei der Sicherheitslücke um die mögliche Umgehung von Sicherheitsfunktionen von Windows TCP/IP-Treibern, wodurch ein Angreifer in der Lage wäre, sich selbst weitere Re...