cybersecurity
Days before the exposure this week of over three terabytes of military emails owing to misconfigured Azure services, the US Department of Defense (DoD)’s Inspector General had warned Pentagon CIOs that their teams were not properly reviewing documentation designed to ensure military cloud security – and running systems with unmitigated
Hackers appear to be increasingly adopting the Havoc command and control (C2) framework, security researchers say. The open source framework, developed by C5pider, supports the building of offensive agents in several formats including Windows PE executable, PE DLL and shellcode and is an alternative to the paid for (or cracked)
February’s Patch Tuesday brings the post-Valentine’s Day hangover of 75 bug fixes from Microsoft including three for CVEs known to be exploited in the wild: CVE-2023-21715, CVE-2023-23376 , and CVE-2023-21823. Strikingly, more than half of the bugs fixed this month are remote code execution (RCE) vulnerabilities. (A record 26,