Security
Analysis by The Stack of over 90,000 vulnerabilities revealed a sharp growth in bugs associated with widely known “CWEs” – or potentially exploitable weaknesses that can occur in architecture, design, code, or implementation and which could potentially have been caught upstream in a secure development process. One control is to
Updated January 6, 11:00 BST: CircleCI has updated its advisory which deserves revisiting. CircleCI is calling on customers to “immediately rotate any and all secrets” after a security incident. The breach appears to have occurred around December 21 and to have gone unnoticed over the Christmas period. Credentials stolen
Two new cybersecurity tools “OSV-Scanner” and “Peach” that landed this week deserve attention – whether you are a CISO, Blue Team, or just trying to tighten up your application development or cloud practices. OSV-Scanner was released under an Apache 2.0 licence by Google. Peach is an open framework from Wiz
Security researchers at Juniper Threat Labs say they have identified previously undocumented malware targeting VMware ESXi servers that is notable for its “simplicity, persistence and capabilities.” VMware’s ESXi is a bare metal hypervisor that is widely deployed in large enterprises to run software virtually, from applications to fully emulated
Fortinet has pushed out an emergency patch for a critical CVSS 9.3 vulnerability in numerous versions of its FortiOS operating system, which lets an unauthenticated, remote attacker (pre-auth RCE) take over systems. Critics would be forgiven for asking tough questions about QA and feeling like it was "deja