CVE-2021-22349
There is an Input Verification Vulnerability in Huawei Smartphone. Successful exploitation of insufficient input verification may cause the system to restart.
Ne’er-do-wells leaked personal data — including phone numbers — for some 553 million Facebook users this week. Facebook says the data was collected before 2020 when it changed things to prevent such information from being scraped from profiles. To my mind, this just reinforces the need to remove mobile phone numbers from all of your…
Forensics , Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management Banisher of ‘The Kaminsky Bug’ Lauded for His Drive to ‘Make Things Better’ Mathew J. Schwartz (euroinfosec) • April 27, 2021 Dan Kaminsky in an interview conducted at the 2016 RSA Conference in San Francisco (Photo: ISMG) The information security community is mourning…
The United States is launching three new research programs designed to protect America’s critical energy infrastructure systems. The Department of Energy released information on the projects earlier this week, which will be spearheaded by the department’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response. The programs will aim to protect the US energy system from…
Cybersecurity Microsoft patches new Exchange CVEs, credits NSA with discovery By Justin Katz Apr 13, 2021 Microsoft on Tuesday released patches for two newly discovered vulnerabilities in on-premise Exchange servers, separate from zero-day exploits found in March, and the company is crediting the National Security Agency with identifying the flaws. “These new…
Chinese nation-state hackers have been linked to an attack on the Parliament of Finland that took place last year and led to the compromise of some parliament email accounts. “Some parliament e-mail accounts may have been compromised as a result of the attack, among them e-mail accounts that belong to MPs,” Parliament officials said at…
Gigabyte has been the victim of a cyberattack, which was reportedly the work of a ransomware outfit called RansomEXX. According to The Record, the attack didn’t have an impact on any of the company’s production systems, but it did affect some internal servers. Currently, some parts of Gigabyte’s website, including its support section, are down,…